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All 70 issues of the late, great Experimental Musical Instruments quarterly journal, pulbished 1985-1999, on two CD ROMs in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format.* For years we’ve been selling the complete back issues set in the form of photocopied books, but the printing and shipping was so expensive that we had to charge a rather substantial price. Now you can get the same material on CD for less than a fifth of that price.

To produce these CDs with top graphic quality and fully searchable text would have been prohibitively expensive, given the limited numbers that this rather specialized collection can be expected to sell. Instead we have produced a not-so-glamorous but far more affordable product. The quality of reproduction in the files is not the best, but the images are reasonably clear and the text is readable. It is not possible to do text searches within the articles in this CD, nor can you do text-based cut-and-paste operations or print selections of text from within a page. However, you can print whole pages just as they appear on your screen. For searches, we have provided an extensive set of synopses of all the articles in the form of a text file that is searchable. You can use this to find references to topics that interest you, and then go to the relevant articles.

In other words, this CDROM package has considerably more functionality than the print version, and at a small fraction of the cost.

To see a sample, click here (longer download -- several pages) or here (shorter download -- just one page) . You'll see a sample page or pages just as they appear on the Back Issues CD.

Complete Back Issues on CD-ROM
Price $35 Item #206
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*Software for .pdf files is already in place on most computers. If yours does not have it, you can download it free of charge here: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

To search the contents of Experimental Musical Instruments back issues, click here.

...and while you're at it, you might also wish to pick up our Early Years and Later Years CDs. These two CDs feature the music of thirty-six selected instruments from among the many that appeared in the pages of the journal. You can puchase either CD, or save a few dollars when you get both. Info on these CDs

What, you still prefer the idea of buying the complete back issue set on paper, in the form of 14 paper-bound, photocopied volumes? OK then, here's the "buy" link. Choose one depending on whether your ship-to address is in the U.S. or elsewhere:

Complete Back Issues in 14 photocopied volumes

U.S. & Canada price:
190 + $10 shipping surcharge = $200 Item #205
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Outside U.S. & Canada price:
190 + $25 shipping surcharge = $215 Item #205F
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(The shipping surcharge applies in addition to the standard shipping charge you'll see at checkout. We had to add the surcharge because without it we were losing our shirt shipping this very heavy item at our normal rate.)