Treasures of Mechanical Music

Treasures of Mechanical Music
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 639
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ISBN-10 : 9781879511163
ISBN-13 : 1879511169
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Book Synopsis Treasures of Mechanical Music by : Arthur A. Reblitz

Download or read book Treasures of Mechanical Music written by Arthur A. Reblitz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains over four hundred fifty tuning scales, tracker scales and key frame layouts for player and reproducing pianos, coin pianos and orchestrions, music boxes, table-top organettes, reed, pipe, and electronic organs, barrel organs and various other miscellaneous mechanical musical instruments. In addition to the six hundred fifty pictures and illustrations, there are capsule histories of many of the companies which produced these instruments on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. There are numerous informative articles on such subjects as arranging piano rolls, how to decode an unknown scale, how "nickelodeon" rolls were originally made, selecting the type of roll to be used for a new orchestrion, arranging music for barrel organs, tuning antique instruments, how rolls are perforated and detailed pictorial tours of both the QRS and Play-Rite Music Roll factories as they manufactured rolls in the early 1980s. There's a good bit of information on player pipe organs, and for the carousel buffs, a fascinating collection of pictures of Charles Looff, the carousel builder, and many of the fine machines he madeā€”all of which were fitted with beautiful mechanical organs.


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