{{Short description|American historian and ethnomusicologist}} thumb|Dennis Waring giving a presentation about Estey Organs at Norwich University, 2019 '''Dennis Waring''' is a multi-instrumentalist musician, teacher, historian and ethnomusicologist. From 2003 to 2004, he was the Connecticut State Troubadour.<ref name="NAMM.org">{{cite web | title=Dennis Waring | website=NAMM Oral History Library| date=October 15, 2011 | url=https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/dennis-waring | access-date=2019-03-23}}</ref> He wrote a history book on the Estey Organ Company titled ''Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs & Consumer Culture in Victorian America'', based on his 1987 doctoral dissertation at Wesleyan University.<ref>https://www.worldcat.org/title/18493647</ref> He was the curator of a world instrument workshop while a graduate student.<ref name="News @ Wesleyan 2010">{{cite web | title=Video by Waring Ph.D '82 Teaches Craft of Making Instruments - Page 4542710367001 | website=News @ Wesleyan | date=2010-12-16 | url=http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/12/16/video-by-waring-ph-d-82-teaches-craft-of-making-instruments/4542710367001/ | access-date=2019-03-23}}</ref><ref name="Main 2019">{{cite web | title=Museum Talk: Expert on Estey Organ Company | website=Main | date=2019-03-04 | url=https://norwich.edu/news/news-feed/1639-museum-talk-expert-on-estey-organ-company | access-date=2019-03-23}}</ref><ref name="The Brattleboro Reformer 2017">{{cite web | title=Ethnomusicologist to speak at Estey Organ Museum | website=The Brattleboro Reformer | date=2017-09-11 | url=https://www.reformer.com/stories/ethnomusicologist-to-speak-at-estey-organ-museum,519076 | access-date=2019-03-23}}</ref>
In his research, Waring explored Estey organs and the role of musical instruments as "primary cultural indicators".<ref name="Atlas Obscura">{{cite web | title=The Vermont Town That Has Way Too Many Organs | website=Atlas Obscura | date=31 May 2018 | url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/organ-museum-brattleboro-vermont | access-date=2019-03-23}}</ref><ref name="Alcorn-Oppedahl 2003 pp. 886–888">{{cite journal | last=Alcorn-Oppedahl | first=Allison A. (Allison Ann) | title=Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs & Consumer Culture in Victorian America (review) | journal=Notes | publisher=Project Muse | volume=59 | issue=4 | year=2003 | issn=1534-150X | doi=10.1353/not.2003.0047 | pages=886–888| s2cid=191464060 }}</ref> In addition to playing clarinet, mountain dulcimer, fiddle, banjo and drums in several ensembles, he built traditional wooden instruments. In the 1970s Waring began to explore making dulcimers and other instruments from corrugated cardboard and other household materials. He taught others to do the same, wrote books on the subject, and began selling cardboard-instrument kits.<ref name="The Middletown Press 2018">{{cite web | title=Middletown Commission on the Arts accepting grants applications | website=The Middletown Press | date=2018-09-08 | url=https://www.middletownpress.com/middletown/article/Middletown-Commission-on-the-Arts-accepting-13214537.php | access-date=2019-03-23}}</ref><ref name="NAMM.org" /><ref name="Gallery Walk Guide, July 2015">{{cite web | title=Music Man Dennis Waring Featured at New Arts Collective | website=Gallery Walk Guide, July 2015 | url=https://www.gallerywalk.org/Artrageus1_Collective.html | access-date=2019-03-23}}</ref><ref>http://waringmusic.com</ref>
==Publications==
* {{Cite book |last=Waring |first=Dennis |url=https://www.google.ch/books/edition/Making_Wood_Folk_Instruments/GDRLAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=dennis+waring&dq=dennis+waring&printsec=frontcover |title=Making Wood Folk Instruments |date=1990 |publisher=Sterling |isbn=978-0-8069-7482-8 |language=en}} * Folk Instruments Make Them & Play Them, It's Easy & It's Fun (1979) * Great Folk Instruments To Make & Play (1999) * Cardboard Folk Instruments to Make Play (2000) * Make Your Own Electric Guitar Bass (2001) * Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs & Consumer Culture in Victorian America (2002) * Making Drums (2003)
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==External links== * {{Official website|https://waringmusic.com/}}
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