Michael J. Pagliaro ScD retired professor founder and CEO Emeritus in Counsel of a musical instrument company and Director of Research and Development for a music research laboratory is certified by the State of New York as Teacher of Music Secondary School Principal Supervisor of Secondary Education and by the City of New York as Teacher of Orchestral Music. An authority in musical instrument technology Dr. Pagliaro invented four musical instrument products which are sold worldwide is author of Everything You Should Know about Musical Instruments (Columbia Pacific University Press 1992); The Violin: How It Works (Ardsley Press 2002) The Flute: How It Works (Ardsley Press 2003); The Violin Workbook (Ardsley Press 2004) The Musical Instrument Desk Reference (Scarecrow Press 2012); and The String Instrument Owner's Handbook (Rowman and Littlefield 2014). Language: English