Anthony Cuthbert Baines (1912–1997) ^[1] was an English organologist who produced a wide variety of works on the history of musical instruments, and was a founding member of the Galpin Society.^[2]

He attended Westminster School and then read for a degree in chemistry at Christ Church, Oxford. He subsequently won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music as a bassoon player, and went on to perform with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.^[3]

Selected publications

• Woodwind Instruments and their History (London: Faber & Faber, 1957; reprinted 1962, 1967, 1991)
• Bagpipes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960; reprinted 1979, 1995), ISBN 0-902793-10-1
• Musical Instruments Through the Ages (Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1961; revised edition, London: Faber, 1966), ISBN 0-14-020347-8
• European and American Musical Instruments (London: B. T. Batsford, 1966; London: Chancellor, 1983)
• Brass Instruments: Their History and Development (London: Faber, 1976; reprinted New York: Dover, 1993)
• The Bate Collection of Historical Wind Instruments (Oxford University, Faculty of Music, 1976), ISBN 0907486282
• The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), ISBN 0193113341