Illustrator, designer, and musician Gijs Bierenbroodspot has worked as an art director for a wide variety of magazines and he has developed numerous ad campaigns. While searching in vain for information about saxophone mouthpieces, he got the idea for this series of books on music and musical instruments. He is responsible for the layout and the illustrations for all of the books.

Journalist, writer, and musician Hugo Pinksterboer, (co)author and editor of The Tipbook Series has published hundreds of interviews, articles and instrument, video, CD and book reviews for Dutch and international music magazines. He is the author of the reference work for cymbals (The Cymbal Book, Hal Leonard) and he has written and developed a wide variety of manuals and courses, both for musicians and for non-musicians.