Tony Bingham - Books

Author	Details	Price
ARRUGA F L / DI FRONZO L / PREVIDI E / DI STEFANO G P EDITORS Book #2147	Note di valzer nel mondo viennese / Waltzes from the World of Vienna Arte e musica nel fortepiano di Heitzmann / Art and music on the Heitzmann fortepiano 2009. Alla ricerca dei suoni perduti . Appendice 2 / In search of lost sounds . Appendix 2 Collezione di strumenti musicali di Fernanda Giulini / Instruments collection of Fernanda Giulini. 115pp, colour and b/w plates. Italian and English text. With CD of 'Walzer a quattro mani da Schubert a Strauss' performed by Federica e Francesca Badalini, Fortepiano J. Heitzmann und Son	£75.00
BETHLEHEM (PA) USA Book #1119	The Square Piano in Rural Pennsylvania 1760-1830 Exhibition Catalogue, Payne Gallery of Moravian College by P. Larson & C. Traupman-Carr, 19 October-26th November 2000. 46pp, colour plates.	£20.00 (Paper)
BEVAN C Book #1121	Musical Instrument Collections in the British Isles 1990. 127pp, 47 b/w photos, details of almost one hundred collections open to the public.	£8.50 (Paper)
BRAUCHLI B Book #1151	The Clavicord 1st paperback 2005. 404pp. Foreword by C.Hogwood. 123 b/w illustrations, music examples and line drawings in text.	£33.00 (Paper)
BRINSMEAD E Book #1873	The History of the Pianoforte with an account of the Theory of Sound & also of the Music and Musical Instruments of the Ancients 1879. 201pp, b/w illustrations, gilt all around. Former owners name on half title, some foxing, overall good copy.	£25.00 (Secondhand)
BURNETT R Book #1819	Company of Pianos 2004. 240pp, colour and b/w plates, line drawings and music examples in text. With a comprehensive glossary of technical terms and a keyboard chronology compiled by W. Dow. The prime purpose of this book is to act as a companion to the pianos as found in the checklist of the Finchcocks Collection, it includes a free CD giving the reader the opportunity to hear the voices of thirty-three of Finchcocks instruments played by R. Burnett and S. Devine. Sold together with the checklist compiled by W. Dow.	£35.00
BÜCKEN DR ERNST EDITOR Book #2141	Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft. W Heinitz - Instrumentenkunde: R Lachmann - Musik der Aussereuropäischen Völker: C Sachs - Musik der Antike: P Panoff - Altslavische Volks- und Kirchenmusik 1928, 1929, 1930. 159, 33, 32 and 31pp, colour plates tipped in, b/w illustrations and music examples in text . German text. Back board a little soiled, good copy.	£50.00 (Secondhand)
CAREW D Book #2038	The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850 2007. 595pp, b/w plates, music examples in text. This book charts the piano's accession from the musical curiosity to cultural icon, examining the instrument itself in its various guises as well as the music for which it was written	£55.00
COBBE A Book #2063	Composer Instruments The Cobbe Collection 2000. A Catalogue of the Cobbe Collection of Keyboard Instruments with Composer Associations. Technical Data compiled by David Hunt. 69pp, colour and b/w illustrations.	£8.00 (Paper)
CROMBIE D Book #1199	Piano: Evolution, Design and Performance 1995. 112pp. with 99pp. of colour photos.	£19.00
DE FOURCAUD L / POUGIN A / PRADEL L Book #2010	La Salle Pleyel Illustrations de P. Renouard et J. Grigny. Gravures sur bois de Florian, Gusman et Boileau 1893. 139pp, b/w illustrations. Water stain most evident from pp 110-139 however not interfering with the contents, paper covers a little soiled. A rare book	£45.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
DEN HAAG HOLLAND Book #1751	Muziek voor het oog / Music for the eye 2003. This book shows in photographes more than 50 of the best pieces of the music collection of the Gemeentemuseum. The choice includes all sort of musical instruments as well as prints from the 16th to the 19th century. 191pp, colour- and b/w plates. Dutch and English text.	£23.00 (Paper)
FISCHER H / WOHNHAAS T Book #2005	Lexikon süddeutscher Orgelbauer 1994. Taschenbücher zur Musikwisschenschaft 116. 488pp. Dictionary. German text.	£22.00 (Paper)
GÉTREAU F (Editor) Book #1740	Musique . Images . Instruments Revue française d'organologie et d'iconographie musicale. No. 5/2003 Musiciens, facteurs et théoriciens de la Renaissance. 279pp. b/w illustrations.	£22.00 (Paper)
NEW LISTING GÉTREAU F EDITOR Book #2150	Chopin e il suono di Pleyel / Chopin and the Pleyel Sound / Chopin et le son de Pleyel Arte e musica nella Parigi romantica / Art and Music in Romantic Paris / Art et musique dans le Paris romantique 2010. Alla ricerca dei suoni perduti . Appendice 3 / In search of lost sounds . Appendix 3 / A la recherche des sonorités perdues . Annexe 3. Published on the occasion of the bicentenary of Frederick Chopin's birth. Selected by the 'Association Chopin 2010 en France'. Instruments collection of Fernanda Giulini. 379pp, colour plates. Authors: M-P Rambeau; J-J Eigeldinger; E Talma-Davous; F Gétreau; C Clark; A Framboisier; J H van der Meer; G P Di Stefano; G O'Brien. Italian, English and French text. With CD of Music by Chopin played on 4 different Pleyel pianos, the earliest model dated 1839, performed by Fernanda Giulini (fortepiano & pianoforte Pleyel), Giuliano Barutti (violoncello), Clementine Hoogendoorn Scimone (ottavino), Francesca Badalini (fortepiano Pleyel), Magdalena Aparta (mezzosoprano)	£82.00
GHENT Belgium Book #1022	EEN BLIK OP...UN REGARD SUR...A VISION ON...PIANOS 2002. Exhibition catalogue of the Chris van Maene collection, Ghent 19 April - 8 June 2002. 130pp, colour plates. Flemish, French & English text.	£22.00 (Paper)
HAACKE W Book #1296	Am Klavier: Werke Europäischer Maler aus sechs Jahrhunderten 79pp. 15 colour & 58 b/w plates. German text	£12.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
HALLE Germany Book #1303	Katalog zu den Sammlungen des Händel-Hauses in Halle: 7.Teil; Blasinstrumente Orgeln Harmoniums 1980. Catalogue by Herbert Heyde. 527pp. fully illustrated with b/w photos, line drawings in text. German text.	£25.00
HILDEBRANDT D Book #1323	Piano forte, a social history of the Piano 1988. Introduction by A. Burgess, translated by H.Goodman. 207pp, good copy, dustjacket.	£28.00 (Secondhand)
HIRT F J Book #1327	Stringed Keyboard Instruments: 1440-1880 1968. Translated from German by M.Boehme-Brown. 464pp, 178 b/w and 1 colour plate. Spine a little worn, contents clean.	£150.00 (Secondhand)
HOOVER C A Book #2102	Harpsichords and Clavichords 2nd printing, 1973. 43pp, b/w illustrations. In this booklet a few of the restored harpsichords and clavichords in the Smithonian Institution, Washington are described. Good condition.	£8.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
HOOVER / RUCKER / GOOD Book #1332	Piano 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos 2001. Compiled from the Exhibition produced by the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian International Gallery, 9 March 2000 - 21 October 2001. 80pp.	£14.00 (Paper)
JAMES P Book #1349	Early Keyboard Instruments from their beginnings to the year 1820 1930. 153pp 65 b/w plates plus frontispiece & 2 figures in text. Some foxing, boards soiled.	£100.00 (Secondhand)
JUDE J Book #2127	Pleyel 1757-1857 La passion d'un siècle 2008. 345pp, colour and monochrome plates, with information on instrument numbers, dates and clients (copies of accounts). An important reference book. French text.	£100.00
LEIPZIG Germany Book #1386	Orgelinstrumente Harmoniums: Musikinstrumenten-Museum Katalog Band 6 1984. by K.Gernhardt, H.Henkel & W.Schrammek. 144pp. plus 80pp. of colour & b/w plates. German text.	£44.00
LOCHER C Book #1395	Die Orgel-Register und ihre Klangfarben, damit verwandten akustischen Erscheinungen und wirksamen Mischungen 1912. 181pp. b/w frontispiece, portrait of author. Damage to spine, slight foxing	£30.00 (Secondhand)
LOESSER A Book #1396	Men, Women and Pianos: a social history 1954. 654pp. ex library copy with stamps, worn.	£10.00 (Secondhand)
LONDON Book #1399	Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments Catalogue, Part II, Keyboard Instruments 2000. Edited by E. Wells, with J. Budgen, W. Debenham, J. Nex, Ch. Nobbs, L. Whitehead. 143pp, 16pp. colour & many b/w plates	£25.00 (Paper)
LONDON Book #1401	Broadwood, the piano of the Nations for six generations To commemorate the visit to the Broadwood Factory of Queen Mary & King George V 20th July 1926. 17pp, b/w photos.	£12.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
LONDON Book #1402	Musical Instruments in the 1851 Exhibition 1986. Edited by P. & A. Mactaggart. 109pp, line drawings.	£15.00 (Paper)
MAGNANO Book #1423	De Clavicordio I: Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium / Atti Congresso Internazionale sul Clavicordo 9-11 Settembre 1993. 287pp. Edited by B. Bauchli, S. Brauchli & A. Galazzo. 24pp. b/w photos & 8pp. of line drawings. No outer cover	£10.00 (Paper)
MAGNANO Book #1424	De Clavicordio II: Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium / Atti del Congresso Internazionale sul Clavicordo 21-23 September 1995 274pp. Edited by B. Brauchli, S. Brauchli & A. Galazzo. 12pp. of b/w photos, line drawings & music examples in text	£42.00 (Paper)
MANCHESTER Book #2146	Royal Northern College of Music Collection of Historic Musical Instruments Catalogue of the Collection 2010. Compiled by William Waterhouse, edited by Anna Wright, photography by Michael Pollard. 307pp, fully illustrated with colour plates.	£50.00
MAZZOCCA F / O'BRIEN G / DI STEFANO G P / BAZZI A Book #2079	Schanz lo strumento dei Principi / Schanz the instrument of Princes Arte e musica nella Milano dell'Ottocento al tempo di Cristina Archinto Trivulzio / Art and music in the nineteenth century Milan at the time of Cristina Archinto Trivulzio 2008. Collezione di strumenti musicali di Fernanda Giulini / Instruments collection of Fernanda Giulini. Alla ricerca dei suoni perduti . Appendice 1 / In search of lost sounds . Appendix 1 143pp, colour plates and graphs + detailed technical information. Italian and English text. With DVD of piano music by various composers, also including one piece by Rolla for harp and fortepiano. Cousineau harp performed by Anna Loro, Johann Schanz fortepiano performed by Fernanda Giulini.	£78.00
MEUCCI R (ED) Book #2144	Liuteria Musica e Cultura 1996 Studi dedicati a / essays dedicated to J H Van Der Meer 1996. 123pp, b/w illustraions, line drawings and music examples in text. Italian and English text. Good copy	£25.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
MUNICH Germany Book #1458	Besaitete Tasteninstrumente: Deutsches Museum Kataloge der Sammlungen; Musikinstrumenten Sammlung 1994. Catalogue by H. Henkel. 319pp, more than 140 b/w photos of instruments, key-mechanisms & makers marks. German text	£95.00
NUGUES E / POUGET H C / MARTIN CH Book #1468	Practical Manual for the Piano and Harmonium Tuner; a treatise on Tuning and Repair of these Instruments, containing in addition Elementary Principles of Accoustics 1913. 146pp. 98 line illustrations. Paper cover tatty, contents clean & uncut	£45.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
OSAKA JAPAN Book #1743	Museum of Musical Instruments, Osaka College of Music Catalogue. 1998. 157pp + 8pp index. Aerophones, Chordophones, Membranophones, Idiorhones. Fully illustrated, small b/w photos, with description and simple measurements in Japanese and English	£25.00 (Paper)
PARAKILAS J (Editor) Book #1479	Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano 1999. 461pp. Foreword by N. Adams, many colour and b/w plates.	£35.00
PARIS France Book #1483	Les Orgues de Paris. Delegation a l'action artistique de la ville de Paris, festival d'art sacré 1992. 300pp. 16 colour & 196 b/w photos. French text. Torn dust jacket.	£40.00 (Secondhand)
PTUJ Yugoslavia Book #1504	Glasbila na Ptujskem Gradu; Instrumentarij Salonov ter Mescanskih in Plemiskih Kapel 1994. Catalogue by D. Koter. 113pp, 6 colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations, Yugoslav text	£15.00 (Paper)
ROUDET J (Editor) Book #1025	Piano Forte - Méthodes et leçons pour piano-forte ou clavecin: Méthodes & Traités 7 Série I France 1600-1800, Vol I & II 2000. 476pp. Two volumes	£64.00 (Paper)
RUSSELL R Book #1523	The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Introductory Study 1973. 208pp. 2nd Edition revised by Howard Schott. plus 103 b/w plates, 2 figures of harpsichord actions. Small tear in dust jacket, good copy	£60.00 (Secondhand)
SAVILLE Book #1531	W. Saville & Co Catalogue Early 20th century. 16pp. This Catalogue contains Drawings of Pianofortes by the Best English and Foreign Makers etc..'.	£25.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
SCHOTT H (Editor) Book #1031	The Historical Harpsichord Vol 4/2002 241pp. b/w plates. This volume deals with harpsichord decoration.	£39.00
SCHÄFER E Book #1856	Laudatio Organi . Eine Orgelfahrt von der Ostsee bis zum Erzgebirge 7. veränderte Auflage 1992. 207pp, colour and b/w plates. German text. Good copy.	£25.00 (Secondhand)
STUTTGART Germany Book #1550	Musikinstrumentensammlung im Fruchtkasten 1993. Catalogue of Württembergisches Landesmuseum. 211pp, 16 colour & 96 b/w photos. German text	£20.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
VAN DER MEER J H Book #2006	Alla ricerca dei suoni perduti / In search of lost sounds Arte e musica negli strumenti della collezione di Fernanda Giulini / Art and music in the instruments collection of Fernanda Giulini Milano e Briosco / Milan and Briosco 2006. In cooperation with Grant O'Brien:Oscar Mischiati:Dagmar Droyson-Reber:Tiziano Rizzi: Carlo Bertelli:Daniela Di Castro:Andreina Bazzi:Linda Martino. Essays by Carlo Bertelli:Daniela Di Castro:Andreina Bazzi:Renato Meucci:Michael Latcham:Laurence Libin:Pier Fausto Bagatti Valsecchi. 715pp, colour and b/w plates. This fully illustrated catalogue contains historical as well as technical information on keyboard and plucked string instruments and is accompagnied by 2 cds	£100.00
Vermillion (SD) USA Book #1700	Beethoven & Berlioz Paris & Vienna Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution & Romance 1789 - 1848 Catalogue National Music Museum, September 12 - November 2, 2003. André P. Larson, Ph. D. / John Koster, A. B. 87pp., colour plates.	£20.00 (Paper)
NEW LISTING WINTERNITZ E Book #2154	Musicali Strumenti Estratto dal vol. IX Encilopedia Universale dell'Arte ? Istituto per la Collaborazione Culturale Venezia-Roma. 14pp (nos 770-795)3 colour- and 11 b/w plates, Italian text.	£10.00 (Paper) (Secondhand)
WOLFENDEN S Book #1596	A Treatise on the Art of Pianoforte Construction 1999. 196p., b/w ill. in text. Japanese text. paper	£10.00 (Paper)
WOODCROFT R Editor Book #1408	Patents for Inventions: Abridgements of Specifications relating to Music & Musical Instruments, A.D. 1694-1866 1984 Facsimile of 1871 Edition. 520pp. with abridgements of all 740 English patents issued before 1867.	£27.00 Enlarge Photo

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ARRUGA F L / DI FRONZO L / PREVIDI E / DI STEFANO G P EDITORS
Book #2147

Note di valzer nel mondo viennese / Waltzes from the World of Vienna
Arte e musica nel fortepiano di Heitzmann / Art and music on the Heitzmann fortepiano 2009. Alla ricerca dei suoni perduti . Appendice 2 / In search of lost sounds . Appendix 2
Collezione di strumenti musicali di Fernanda Giulini / Instruments collection of Fernanda Giulini. 115pp, colour and b/w plates. Italian and English text. With CD of 'Walzer a quattro mani da Schubert a Strauss' performed by Federica e Francesca Badalini, Fortepiano J. Heitzmann und Son

£75.00

BETHLEHEM (PA) USA
Book #1119

The Square Piano in Rural Pennsylvania 1760-1830 Exhibition Catalogue, Payne Gallery of Moravian College by P. Larson & C. Traupman-Carr, 19 October-26th November 2000. 46pp, colour plates.

£20.00 (Paper)

BEVAN C
Book #1121

Musical Instrument Collections in the British Isles 1990. 127pp, 47 b/w photos, details of almost one hundred collections open to the public.

£8.50 (Paper)

BRAUCHLI B
Book #1151

The Clavicord 1st paperback 2005. 404pp. Foreword by C.Hogwood. 123 b/w illustrations, music examples and line drawings in text.

£33.00 (Paper)

BRINSMEAD E
Book #1873

The History of the Pianoforte with an account of the Theory of Sound & also of the Music and Musical Instruments of the Ancients 1879. 201pp, b/w illustrations, gilt all around. Former owners name on half title, some foxing, overall good copy.

£25.00
(Secondhand)

BURNETT R
Book #1819

Company of Pianos 2004. 240pp, colour and b/w plates, line drawings and music examples in text. With a comprehensive glossary of technical terms and a keyboard chronology compiled by W. Dow. The prime purpose of this book is to act as a companion to the pianos as found in the checklist of the Finchcocks Collection, it includes a free CD giving the reader the opportunity to hear the voices of thirty-three of Finchcocks instruments played by R. Burnett and S. Devine. Sold together with the checklist compiled by W. Dow.

£35.00

BÜCKEN DR ERNST EDITOR
Book #2141

Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft.
W Heinitz - Instrumentenkunde: R Lachmann - Musik der Aussereuropäischen Völker: C Sachs - Musik der Antike: P Panoff - Altslavische Volks- und Kirchenmusik 1928, 1929, 1930. 159, 33, 32 and 31pp, colour plates tipped in, b/w illustrations and music examples in text . German text. Back board a little soiled, good copy.

£50.00
(Secondhand)

CAREW D
Book #2038

The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850 2007. 595pp, b/w plates, music examples in text.
This book charts the piano's accession from the musical curiosity to cultural icon, examining the instrument itself in its various guises as well as the music for which it was written

£55.00

COBBE A
Book #2063

Composer Instruments
The Cobbe Collection 2000. A Catalogue of the Cobbe Collection of Keyboard Instruments with Composer Associations.
Technical Data compiled by David Hunt. 69pp, colour and b/w illustrations.

£8.00 (Paper)

CROMBIE D
Book #1199

Piano: Evolution, Design and Performance 1995. 112pp. with 99pp. of colour photos.

£19.00

DE FOURCAUD L / POUGIN A / PRADEL L
Book #2010

La Salle Pleyel
Illustrations de P. Renouard et J. Grigny. Gravures sur bois de Florian, Gusman et Boileau 1893. 139pp, b/w illustrations. Water stain most evident from pp 110-139 however not interfering with the contents, paper covers a little soiled. A rare book

£45.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

DEN HAAG HOLLAND
Book #1751

Muziek voor het oog / Music for the eye 2003. This book shows in photographes more than 50 of the best pieces of the music collection of the Gemeentemuseum. The choice includes all sort of musical instruments as well as prints from the 16th to the 19th century. 191pp, colour- and b/w plates. Dutch and English text.

£23.00 (Paper)

FISCHER H / WOHNHAAS T
Book #2005

Lexikon süddeutscher Orgelbauer 1994. Taschenbücher zur Musikwisschenschaft 116.
488pp. Dictionary. German text.

£22.00 (Paper)

GÉTREAU F (Editor)
Book #1740

Musique . Images . Instruments
Revue française d'organologie et d'iconographie musicale. No. 5/2003 Musiciens, facteurs et théoriciens de la Renaissance. 279pp. b/w illustrations.

£22.00 (Paper)

NEW LISTING
GÉTREAU F EDITOR
Book #2150

Chopin e il suono di Pleyel / Chopin and the Pleyel Sound / Chopin et le son de Pleyel
Arte e musica nella Parigi romantica / Art and Music in Romantic Paris / Art et musique dans le Paris romantique 2010. Alla ricerca dei suoni perduti . Appendice 3 / In search of lost sounds . Appendix 3 / A la recherche des sonorités perdues . Annexe 3. Published on the occasion of the bicentenary of Frederick Chopin's birth. Selected by the 'Association Chopin 2010 en France'. Instruments collection of Fernanda Giulini.
379pp, colour plates. Authors: M-P Rambeau; J-J Eigeldinger; E Talma-Davous; F Gétreau; C Clark; A Framboisier; J H van der Meer; G P Di Stefano; G O'Brien. Italian, English and French text. With CD of Music by Chopin played on 4 different Pleyel pianos, the earliest model dated 1839, performed by Fernanda Giulini (fortepiano & pianoforte Pleyel), Giuliano Barutti (violoncello), Clementine Hoogendoorn Scimone (ottavino), Francesca Badalini (fortepiano Pleyel), Magdalena Aparta (mezzosoprano)

£82.00

GHENT Belgium
Book #1022

EEN BLIK OP...UN REGARD SUR...A VISION ON...PIANOS 2002. Exhibition catalogue of the Chris van Maene collection, Ghent 19 April - 8 June 2002. 130pp, colour plates. Flemish, French & English text.

£22.00 (Paper)

HAACKE W
Book #1296

Am Klavier: Werke Europäischer Maler aus sechs Jahrhunderten 79pp. 15 colour & 58 b/w plates. German text

£12.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

HALLE Germany
Book #1303

Katalog zu den Sammlungen des Händel-Hauses in Halle: 7.Teil; Blasinstrumente Orgeln Harmoniums 1980. Catalogue by Herbert Heyde. 527pp. fully illustrated with b/w photos, line drawings in text. German text.

£25.00

HILDEBRANDT D
Book #1323

Piano forte, a social history of the Piano 1988. Introduction by A. Burgess, translated by H.Goodman. 207pp, good copy, dustjacket.

£28.00
(Secondhand)

HIRT F J
Book #1327

Stringed Keyboard Instruments: 1440-1880 1968. Translated from German by M.Boehme-Brown. 464pp, 178 b/w and 1 colour plate. Spine a little worn, contents clean.

£150.00
(Secondhand)

HOOVER C A
Book #2102

Harpsichords and Clavichords 2nd printing, 1973. 43pp, b/w illustrations. In this booklet a few of the restored harpsichords and clavichords in the Smithonian Institution, Washington are described. Good condition.

£8.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

HOOVER / RUCKER / GOOD
Book #1332

Piano 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos 2001. Compiled from the Exhibition produced by the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian International Gallery, 9 March 2000 - 21 October 2001. 80pp.

£14.00 (Paper)

JAMES P
Book #1349

Early Keyboard Instruments from their beginnings to the year 1820 1930. 153pp 65 b/w plates plus frontispiece & 2 figures in text. Some foxing, boards soiled.

£100.00
(Secondhand)

JUDE J
Book #2127

Pleyel 1757-1857
La passion d'un siècle 2008. 345pp, colour and monochrome plates, with information on instrument numbers, dates and clients (copies of accounts). An important reference book. French text.

£100.00

LEIPZIG Germany
Book #1386

Orgelinstrumente Harmoniums: Musikinstrumenten-Museum Katalog Band 6 1984. by K.Gernhardt, H.Henkel & W.Schrammek. 144pp. plus 80pp. of colour & b/w plates. German text.

£44.00

LOCHER C
Book #1395

Die Orgel-Register und ihre Klangfarben, damit verwandten akustischen Erscheinungen und wirksamen Mischungen 1912. 181pp. b/w frontispiece, portrait of author. Damage to spine, slight foxing

£30.00
(Secondhand)

LOESSER A
Book #1396

Men, Women and Pianos: a social history 1954. 654pp. ex library copy with stamps, worn.

£10.00
(Secondhand)

LONDON
Book #1399

Royal College of Music Museum of Instruments Catalogue, Part II, Keyboard Instruments 2000. Edited by E. Wells, with J. Budgen,
W. Debenham, J. Nex, Ch. Nobbs, L. Whitehead. 143pp, 16pp. colour & many b/w plates

£25.00 (Paper)

LONDON
Book #1401

Broadwood, the piano of the Nations for six generations To commemorate the visit to the Broadwood Factory of Queen Mary & King George V 20th July 1926. 17pp, b/w photos.

£12.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

LONDON
Book #1402

Musical Instruments in the 1851 Exhibition 1986. Edited by P. & A. Mactaggart. 109pp, line drawings.

£15.00 (Paper)

MAGNANO
Book #1423

De Clavicordio I: Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium / Atti Congresso Internazionale sul Clavicordo 9-11 Settembre 1993. 287pp. Edited by B. Bauchli, S. Brauchli & A. Galazzo. 24pp. b/w photos & 8pp. of line drawings. No outer cover

£10.00 (Paper)

MAGNANO
Book #1424

De Clavicordio II: Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium / Atti del Congresso Internazionale sul Clavicordo 21-23 September 1995 274pp. Edited by B. Brauchli, S. Brauchli & A. Galazzo. 12pp. of b/w photos, line drawings & music examples in text

£42.00 (Paper)

MANCHESTER
Book #2146

Royal Northern College of Music
Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
Catalogue of the Collection 2010. Compiled by William Waterhouse, edited by Anna Wright, photography by Michael Pollard. 307pp, fully illustrated with colour plates.

£50.00

MAZZOCCA F / O'BRIEN G / DI STEFANO G P / BAZZI A
Book #2079

Schanz lo strumento dei Principi / Schanz the instrument of Princes
Arte e musica nella Milano dell'Ottocento al tempo di Cristina Archinto Trivulzio / Art and music in the nineteenth century Milan at the time of Cristina Archinto Trivulzio 2008. Collezione di strumenti musicali di Fernanda Giulini / Instruments collection of Fernanda Giulini. Alla ricerca dei suoni perduti . Appendice 1 / In search of lost sounds . Appendix 1 143pp, colour plates and graphs + detailed technical information. Italian and English text. With DVD of piano music by various composers, also including one piece by Rolla for harp and fortepiano. Cousineau harp performed by Anna Loro, Johann Schanz fortepiano performed by Fernanda Giulini.

£78.00

MEUCCI R (ED)
Book #2144

Liuteria Musica e Cultura 1996
Studi dedicati a / essays dedicated to J H Van Der Meer 1996. 123pp, b/w illustraions, line drawings and music examples in text. Italian and English text.
Good copy

£25.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

MUNICH Germany
Book #1458

Besaitete Tasteninstrumente: Deutsches Museum Kataloge der Sammlungen; Musikinstrumenten Sammlung 1994. Catalogue by H. Henkel. 319pp, more than 140 b/w photos of instruments, key-mechanisms & makers marks. German text

£95.00

NUGUES E / POUGET H C / MARTIN CH
Book #1468

Practical Manual for the Piano and Harmonium Tuner; a treatise on Tuning and Repair of these Instruments, containing in addition Elementary Principles of Accoustics 1913. 146pp. 98 line illustrations. Paper cover tatty, contents clean & uncut

£45.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

OSAKA JAPAN
Book #1743

Museum of Musical Instruments, Osaka College of Music Catalogue. 1998. 157pp + 8pp index. Aerophones,
Chordophones, Membranophones, Idiorhones. Fully illustrated, small b/w photos, with description and simple measurements in Japanese and English

£25.00 (Paper)

PARAKILAS J (Editor)
Book #1479

Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano 1999. 461pp. Foreword by N. Adams, many colour and b/w plates.

£35.00

PARIS France
Book #1483

Les Orgues de Paris. Delegation a l'action artistique de la ville de Paris, festival d'art sacré 1992. 300pp. 16 colour & 196 b/w photos. French text. Torn dust jacket.

£40.00
(Secondhand)

PTUJ Yugoslavia
Book #1504

Glasbila na Ptujskem Gradu; Instrumentarij Salonov ter Mescanskih in Plemiskih Kapel 1994. Catalogue by D. Koter. 113pp, 6 colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations, Yugoslav text

£15.00 (Paper)

ROUDET J (Editor)
Book #1025

Piano Forte - Méthodes et leçons pour piano-forte ou clavecin: Méthodes & Traités 7 Série I France 1600-1800, Vol I & II 2000. 476pp. Two volumes

£64.00 (Paper)

RUSSELL R
Book #1523

The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Introductory Study 1973. 208pp. 2nd Edition revised by Howard Schott. plus 103 b/w plates, 2 figures of harpsichord actions. Small tear in dust jacket, good copy

£60.00
(Secondhand)

SAVILLE
Book #1531

W. Saville & Co Catalogue Early 20th century. 16pp. This Catalogue contains Drawings of Pianofortes by the Best English and Foreign Makers etc..'.

£25.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

SCHOTT H (Editor)
Book #1031

The Historical Harpsichord Vol 4/2002 241pp. b/w plates. This volume deals with harpsichord decoration.

£39.00

SCHÄFER E
Book #1856

Laudatio Organi . Eine Orgelfahrt von der Ostsee bis zum Erzgebirge 7. veränderte Auflage 1992. 207pp, colour and b/w plates. German text. Good copy.

£25.00
(Secondhand)

STUTTGART Germany
Book #1550

Musikinstrumentensammlung im Fruchtkasten 1993. Catalogue of Württembergisches Landesmuseum. 211pp, 16 colour & 96 b/w photos. German text

£20.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

VAN DER MEER J H
Book #2006

Alla ricerca dei suoni perduti / In search of lost sounds
Arte e musica negli strumenti della collezione di Fernanda Giulini / Art and music in the instruments collection of Fernanda Giulini
Milano e Briosco / Milan and Briosco 2006. In cooperation with Grant O'Brien:Oscar Mischiati:Dagmar Droyson-Reber:Tiziano Rizzi: Carlo Bertelli:Daniela Di Castro:Andreina Bazzi:Linda Martino. Essays by Carlo Bertelli:Daniela Di Castro:Andreina Bazzi:Renato Meucci:Michael Latcham:Laurence Libin:Pier Fausto Bagatti Valsecchi. 715pp, colour and b/w plates. This fully illustrated catalogue contains historical as well as technical information on keyboard and plucked string instruments and is accompagnied by 2 cds

£100.00

Vermillion (SD) USA
Book #1700

Beethoven & Berlioz Paris & Vienna
Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution & Romance 1789 - 1848 Catalogue National Music Museum, September 12 - November 2, 2003.
André P. Larson, Ph. D. / John Koster, A. B.
87pp., colour plates.

£20.00 (Paper)

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WINTERNITZ E
Book #2154

Musicali Strumenti
Estratto dal vol. IX Encilopedia Universale dell'Arte ? Istituto per la Collaborazione Culturale Venezia-Roma. 14pp (nos 770-795)3 colour- and 11 b/w plates, Italian text.

£10.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)

WOLFENDEN S
Book #1596

A Treatise on the Art of Pianoforte Construction 1999. 196p., b/w ill. in text. Japanese text. paper

£10.00 (Paper)

WOODCROFT R Editor
Book #1408

Patents for Inventions: Abridgements of Specifications relating to Music & Musical Instruments, A.D. 1694-1866 1984 Facsimile of 1871 Edition. 520pp. with abridgements of all 740 English patents issued before 1867.

£27.00

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