Automatic Pianos
Automatic Pianos

Author: Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume

Publisher: Atglen, PA : Schiffer Pub.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13:

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All you need to know about pianos that play automaticallyplayer-pianos, barrel pianos, mechanical pianos, and reproducing pianos. Their invention and development, plus how they work as well as the right way to look after one and play it well. Includes lists of makers, brand names, music-roll, and a guide to prices. Additional chapters devoted to the maintenance and operation of the roll-playing Aeolian Orchestrelle reed-organ.

Player Piano: the History of the Mechanical Piano and how to Repair it
Player Piano: the History of the Mechanical Piano and how to Repair it

Author: Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume

Publisher: London : Allen & Unwin

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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"'Player-Piano' tells for the first time the fascinating story of the mechanical piano from earliest times up to the heyday of the instrument in the 1930s. Never before has this story been related, although the end of the player-piano is certainly still within the living memory of most of us and many hundreds of these devices are still to be found in our homes. In addition to telling the story of the development of these pianos which strove to produce perfect music without the need for skills on the part of the 'performer', this book sets out in copious detail exactly how these complex mechanisms work. For the owner of an instrument, step by step instructions for the restoration and preservation of both the early barrel-playing pianos and the most sophisticated player and reproducing instruments are given. To fully illustrate their development, design and mechanical processes, no less than 112 plates and 110 long drawings are included."--Jacket.

Mechanical Music
Mechanical Music

Author: Kevin McElhone

Publisher: Shire Publications

Published: 2008-03-04

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780747805786

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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 Welte-Mignon
The Welte-Mignon

Author: Charles Davis Smith

Publisher: Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 1000

ISBN-13:

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Player Piano
Player Piano

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780795302565

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Kurt Vonnegut?s first novel Player Piano, published in 1952, heralded the beginning of one of the most diverting and provocative adventures in modern American fiction. Vonnegut went on to write novels that perhaps had greater formal skill and technique, but Player Piano is a tour de force of imaginative insight into modern life and a shrewd satire of American progress.

Neapolitan Postcards
Neapolitan Postcards

Author: Goffredo Plastino

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2016-06-22

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0810881608

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Neapolitan Postcards gathers a diverse group of international scholars to investigate unexplored transnational aspects of the intimate yet globally popular canzone napoletana. Performed and beloved worldwide in almost every language, the style had hits such as “Funiculì funiculà” (1880) and “’O sole mio” (1898) which sold millions of copies. These hits fueled the tradition’s spread across the world over the course of the twentieth century with the eventual popularity of covers by singers and musicians of all music genres and styles, from popular music to opera and jazz. This book is the first scholarly work that considers the specific complexities of the international Neapolitan Song scenes through case studies from Argentina, England, Greece, and the United States, employing analyses of compositions, iconographical sources, international films, mechanical musical instruments, performances, and recordings devoted to the canzone napoletana.