Dennis Waring

Dennis Waring is a historian and ethnomusicologist who was the Connecticut State Troubadour from 2003 through 2004. He has authored a book on the history of the Estey Organ Company titled Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs & Consumer Culture in Victorian America which was his doctoral dissertation at Weslyean University. He is a local expert on the organs and the role of musical instruments as "primary cultural indicators".

Waring believes in bringing music to a wide audience. He makes improvised instruments out of cardboard and household scraps and teaches other people to do the same.

• Folk Instruments Make Them & Play Them, It's Easy & It's Fun (1979)
• Making Wood Folk Instruments (1990)
• 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)