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●   Artifacts in Use: The Paradox of Restoration and the Conservation of Organs (forthcoming)

●   "The Elements of Conservation: A Conceptual Model"
in proceedings from the conference "The Conservation of Archaeological Materials: Current Trends and Future Directions" Nov. 13-17, 2005 (forthcoming)

●   "Instrument and Document: Balancing Values in the Conservation of Musical Instruments" in Postprints of the Wooden Artifacts Group

●   Organ Restoration Reconsidered: Proceedings of a Colloquium. edited by J.R. Watson. Harmonie Park Press, 2005

●   “Performance Standards meet Museum Standards: The Conservation of Organs” in Towards the Conservation and Restoration of Historic Organs: A Record of the 1999 Liverpool Conference. ed. Jim Berrow, Church House Publishing, 2000

●   Costume Close-up: Pattern and Construction of Antique Clothing, 1750-1790 (book) with Linda R. Baumgarten. CWF and Quite Specific Press, New York, 1998 [graphic design and CAD drawings; L. Baumgarten is curator of costume at CWF, and my wife]

●   Makers of the Piano, 1820-1860, by Martha Clinkscale, illustrated by J.R. Watson, Oxford University Press, 1998

●   “An 18^th-Century Harpsichord Workshop contributes Two New Technologies,” in Eighteenth-Century Woodworking Tools edited by James M. Gaynor, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1997

Articles  

“Conservation of a Jeffersonian Vision: Jefferson’s 1786 Model of the Capitol of Virginia” in Interpreter. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Summer 2002 pp. 1-5

●   “Conservation of Six Historic Organs at Colonial Williamsburg” in The Tracker  (Journal of the Organ Historical Society) Vol. 46, Number 3, July 2002 pp. 22-34

●   “Instrument Restoration and the Scholarship Imperative” in Early Keyboard Journal, vol. 19 (2001) pp. 7-31.

●   “Theory and Practice in the Conservation of Musical Instruments,” with David B. Blanchfield, Journal of the Violin Society of America, 1998.

●   "Recommendations for the Conservation of Musical Instruments: an Annotated Bibliography" (CIMCIM - Comité International des Musées et Collections d'Instruments de Musique) co-written with five other international writers. 1993

●   “Historical Musical Instruments: A Claim To Use, An Obligation To Preserve,” Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, Vol XVII (1991), 69.

●   “Balancing Physical Integrity with Aesthetic Integrity: Ethical Problems in the Conservation of Musical Instruments.” Abstracts. American Institute for Conservation, 1990. 18.

●   “Claviers for Salem: Historic Keyboard Instruments in the Salem Moravian Community,” Moravian Music Journal, Vol. XXXI No. 1 (Spring 1986), 9.

●   “A Catalog of Antique Keyboard Instruments in the Southeast,” published serially in Early Keyboard Journal, II (1983-84), 64; III (1984-85), 60; V (1986-87), 53; IX (1991), 71; XV (1997), 93.

●   “Three Examples of Keyboard Restoration,” Early Keyboard Journal, I (1982-83), 16.