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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Instruments for New Music
Instruments for New Music

Author: Thomas Patteson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0520288025

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Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium

Reproducing Pianos Past and Present
Reproducing Pianos Past and Present

Author: Kent A. Holliday

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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The reproducing piano rendered faithful re-performances of classical and popular piano solos at a time when cylinder and disc recorders were in their infancy. It played notes from a perforated paper roll, but unlike the player piano it was able to replicate expressive performance elements such as articulation, dynamics, and pedaling. Busoni, Granados, Hoffmann, Rachmaninov, and Ravel made thousands of piano rolls for the reproducing piano.