Anthony Cuthbert Baines (6 October 1912 – 2 February 1997)[1][2] was an English bassoon player and organologist who produced a wide variety of works on the history of musical instruments, and was a founding member of the Galpin Society.
[1] He attended Westminster School and then read for a degree in natural sciences, specialising in chemistry, at Christ Church, Oxford (1933).
He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music to study the bassoon (1933–35).
[1][4] He performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1935–48), interrupted by service during the Second World War.
[1] He was an elected fellow of the British Academy (1980), received the Curt Sachs Award of the American Musical Instrument Society (1985) and was awarded honorary degrees by Oxford (1977) and the University of Edinburgh (1994).