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The Blatter book is an excellent instrumentation text, but dubious for orchestration. The Adler book is decent as an orchestration text, but rather timid, uninformative, and "safe" on the subject of instrumentation. I personally can't stand the Piston book (FLINT SMASH!).
I don't recommend the older books (Rimsky-Korsakov, et al.) simply for the fact that a lot has changed since then, and they are extremely old fashioned.
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