Phantom LimbsThe prostheses Peter Szendy exploresthose peculiar artifacts known as musical instrumentsare not only technical devices but also bodies that live a strange phantom life, as uncanny as a sixth finger or a third lung. The musicological impulse to inventory those bodies that produce sound is called into question here. In Szendys hands, its respectable corpus of scholarship is read aslant, so as to tease out what it usually prefers to hide: hybrids and