"19th Century Brass Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Brass Bulletin (Switzerland) 61, No. 1 (February 1988): 50-59 (published in 5 languages).
"The Aerophor--A Breathsaving Invention," Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society 19, No. 1 (February 1990). Reprinted, with permission, in Experimental Musical Instruments VII, No. 4 (January 1992): 20-21.
"Brass Instruments from the Utley Collection Fill Museum's Horn of Plenty this Harvest Season: Jeweled Cornet a Hallmark of the Utley Collection; A Cornophone from the Utley Cornucopia; 'Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun' with a Double-bell Schediphon; Tortoise-shell is Key Element in Rare Bugle; and, More to the Trompe de Lorraine than Meets the Eye," America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 26, No. 4 (November 1999): 4-5 and 7-8.
"Conn-Selmer Donates . . . Holton's 'Revelations' find a New 'Collegiate' Home," National Music Museum Newsletter Vol. 35, No. 3/4 (August/November 2008), pp. 1-5 and 7.
"Cornet Built by Busch for Jules Levy, 'King of Cornetists'," America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 26, No. 2 (May 2000): 1-3."Dakota Territory Bandsman Captured on the Internet," America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 25, No. 5 (November 1998): 3.
"For Sale: Emerson's Courtois Cornet--Will Trade for a Horse," America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 25, No. 3 (May 1998): 4-5.
"From Hollywood to the Heartland . . . Sgt. Pepper's Magical Trumpet Makes its Vermillion Debut!" America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 28, No. 1 (February 2001): 3.
"From the Museum's Treasure Chest" [jeweled alto saxophone by Conn, 1922], National Music Museum Newsletter 30, No. 1 (February 2003), p. 3.
"It's a Bird! A Plane! A Flute . . . Or is it a Clarinet? A Brooklynite Flute with a Dual Personality," National Music Museum Newsletter 36, No. 3 (August 2007), pp. 4-5.
"A King Comes to Vermillion . . . Giant Sousaphone Star of Disneyland's Opening Day Parade," America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 24, No. 2 (January 1997): 3.
"Oldest American Saxophone Acquired,"National Music Museum Newsletter 30, No. 2 (May 2003), p. 3.
"A Rare Bass Saxophone by Adolphe Sax," America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 27, No. 4 (November 2000): 5.
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Dr. Margaret Downie Banks
Senior Curator of Musical Instruments
National Music Museum
The University of South Dakota
414 East Clark Street
Vermillion SD 57069-2390
E-mail: Margaret.Banks@usd.edu