Book Description
Covers the history, construction, manufacturing, tuning, restoration, and music of these classic American and European parlor instruments.
Author : Robert F. Gellerman
Publisher : Vestal Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1461694248
Covers the history, construction, manufacturing, tuning, restoration, and music of these classic American and European parlor instruments.
Author : Horton Presley
Publisher : Vestal, N.Y. : Vestal Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
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This book is designed primarily for the amateur craftsman who wants to know the nuts and bolts of restoring an antique reed organ. Chapters cover refinishing, stop actions, reed work, case work, and trouble-shooting in clear and easy to follow detail that will help make the outcome rewarding. Major topics include disassembly, bellows repair, action repair, reed tuning and restoration, pallet, mute, swell, coupler, and pitman repairs, keyboard repairs, stop repairs, tremulant and vibrato effects and repair of mechanisms, case restoration. The book includes a supplier list and a bibliography.
Author : Dennis G. Waring
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2002-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780819565082
How a 19th century instrument helped to shape New World culture.
Author : Charles Callahan
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Music
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Author : John Stainer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486430799
This classic method for beginners provides a brief history of the instrument, an explanation of organ construction, a discussion of the various stops and their management, a section devoted to practical study, and several pieces.
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Page : 872 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Organ builders
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Author : James Duff Brown
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Music
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Page : 522 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 1881
Category : American literature
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American national trade bibliography.
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Douglas Earl Bush
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Organ (Musical instrument)
ISBN : 0415941741
Organ, Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments that predated the piano. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instruments from around the world.