Mechanical Music

Name: Mechanical Music
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9780747805786
Price: 1250 KES
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ISBN: 9780747805786

by Kevin McElhone

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Shire Library

ISBN-10 0747805784

ISBN-13 9780747805786

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint Shire Publications

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 1st, 2004

Print length 48 Pages

Weight 132 grams

Dimensions 21.10 x 14.90 x 0.60 cms

Product Classification: Music History: specific events & topics History: specific events and topics

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Covers the history, development, use and fall from favour of many types of exotic instruments, from pocket-sized musical boxes to roll-playing pipe organs and everything else in between. This book describes pianolas, organettes, roller organs, orchestrions, nickelodeons, carillons and more.

The sound of a street barrel organ or a fairground organ may revive distant memories for older people or stir an interest in younger folk. Wealthier families may have possessed their own automatic music machines in the form of a player piano, a Polyphon or cylinder musical box. If well treated, these instruments may still be in working order. This book covers the history, development, use and fall from favour of many types of exotic instruments, from pocket-sized musical boxes to roll-playing pipe organs and everything else in between. It describes pianolas, organettes, roller organs, orchestrions, nickelodeons, carillons and many more. It introduces a complex subject in a way that will encourage readers to visit collections open to the public or perhaps join one of the societies that encourage the restoration of instruments to their former glory.

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