Tips

I can recommended these books on the subject of designing electronic musical instruments.  All have been helpful.  The very best are highlited: these are the must-haves, packed with wisdom, useful insight, esoteric bits of knowledge, and of course valuable schematics.

BASIC

• Getting Started In Electronics.  Forrest Mims III.  (1983) Radio Shack
• The Forrest Mims Engineer’s Notebook.  Forrest Mims III.  (1992)  LLH Technology Publishing
• Musical Instrument Design.  Bart Hopkin. (1996).  See Sharp Press

ADVANCED

• The Art of Electronics, 2nd. Ed.  Horowitz and Hill.  (1989) Cambridge University Press
• Electronic Music Circuits. Barry Klein. (1982). Howard W. Sams & Co.
  
• Musical Applications of Microprocessors.  Hal Chamberlin. (1980) Hayden
  
• TTL Cookbook.  Don Lancaster. (1974) Howard W. Sams & Co.
• CMOS Cookbook.  Don Lancaster. (1977) Howard W. Sams & Co.
• Lancaster’s Active Filter Cookbook, 2nd Ed. Don Lancaster. (1995) Elsevier Ltd.
• Design of Phase-Locked Loop Circuits With Experiments.  Howard M. Berlin. (1978).  Howard W. Sams & Co.
• IC Op-Amp Cookbook. Walter G. Jung. (1997) Prentice Hall PTR
• Fiber Optics Communications, Experiments & Projects.  Waldo T. Boyd. (1982) Howard W. Sams & Co.
• Electronic Music Circuit Guidebook.  Brice Ward. (1975) TAB Books
• Science of Percussion Instruments.  Thomas D. Rossing. (2000) World Scientific Publishing Co.