Book description
It's the best-looking musical encyclopedia ever! Using a completely visual approach, this ultimate reference has over 4,000 drawings showcasing the evolution of instruments-and music-from primitive whistles to electric guitars (complete with fuzz box and pedal). Exquisite illustrations accompany each entry, with painstaking detail and attention to structure, function, and decoration. Most extraordinary is the range of instruments included: orchestral, popular, classical, ancient, and folk. Classed by family groups, they are cross-referenced with material on geographical distribution and historical periods. Plus scores, diagrams of correct playing techniques, major figures, and other fascinating information provided by over forty researchers, writers, and illustrators, in cooperation with 200 scholars from 20 countries!

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co. Inc.

Book description
Black-and-white photos of some of the early keyboard instruments housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Captions accompanying photos give approximate age and maker, if known, of the instruments. This book is the predecessor to the full catalog of instruments, by the same author, made available in 1967 by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Paperback: 30 pages
Publisher: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO)
Language: English

Hardcover: 80 pages
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Paperback Softcover: 80 pages
Publisher: Biblioteque de l'Image

Publisher: KHM Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Wilfried Seipe)

Publisher: KHM = Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Skira) (Wilfried Seipe)

Book description
Impreso en letra gótica. Reproducción facsimilar de la ed. publicada con el tít. de "Syntagmatis musici" por Wolfenbüttel, 1619.

Publisher: Kassel [etc.]: Bärenreiter, 1996.
Language: alemán

Publisher: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1918.

Publisher: London: Tony Bingham, cop. 1993.

Paperback: 257 pages
Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute
Language: English

Hardcover: 157 pages
Publisher: Sunny Knoll Pub; 1st ed edition
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 107 pages
Publisher: Inner London Education Authority (1974)
Language: English

Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: The National Trust
Language: English

Book description
Growing out of the authors' visits to 47 collections in 16 European countries, Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums offers intimate glimpses and useful insights into a great variety of instruments and makes.

Hardcover: 308 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press (December 7, 2006)
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 103 pages
Publisher: Musical Instrument Collection, Music Dept., Haags Gemeentemusuem
Language: English

Book description
The era of the self-playing or automatic piano embraced the first three decades of the 20th century. Piano-playing cabinets were followed by the pneumatic player-piano, soon to be known the world over by the name of the leading American make - Pianola. There were many other makes, of course, with names like Kastonome, Triumph, Pistonola, Claviola, Autoplayer and Apollo. Invented almost simultaneously in Germany and America, player pianos became the most sought-after addition to the family home and the huge industry that built them and made their perforated paper music rolls became both important and wealthy. This book, written by a world-renowned authority on mechanical music and its instruments, relates the development of the automatic piano from the spring-powered dulcimer-playing musical clocks of the 16th century through the once-popular barrel-playing pianos and street pianos to the great era of the Reproducing Piano that could bring a famous artist's interpretation of a musical classic into your own drawing-room. The inventors, their perpetual quest for perfection, and their successes and failures are related in this new and fully-illustrated history. Just how the automatic piano works is described in both words and the author's own clear line-drawings, together with 603 b/w and 43 full colour photos. Also, a guide to servicing, maintaining, and playing player pianos and the magnificent Aeolian Orchestrelle roll-playing reed organ is included. Illustrated appendices include a list of makers, brand-names, and a modern-day valuation guide. 43 color and 603 b/w photos Index

Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing (May 1, 2004)
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 28 pages
Publisher: The Friends of St. Cecilia's Hal
Language: English

Book description
The 1723 Il Gabinetto Armonica, famous collection of copperplates by van Westerhout, shows every important instrument of the day in exceptional detail: organs, harpsichords, violins, horns, drums, etc.; plus folk instruments of Europe and the Orient. Features 152 full-page, beautiful copperplates.

Paperback: 301 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications
Language: English

Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum; New Ed edition
Language: English

Hardcover: 232 pages
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd (November 6, 2000)

Book description
This publication illustrates all the viols and the violins in the Ashmolean Museum, mainly from the (1939) gift of Arthur and Alfred Hill, the Hill Collection. Instrument for instrument this is one of the world's most impressive collections.

Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum (June 25, 2007)
Language: English

Hardcover: 126 pages
Publisher: Apollo Books (November 1977)
Language: English

Book description
Unabridged This is an extensive photographic catalogue of a musical instruments auction in 1990. Many photographs of antique stringed instruments and bows.

Paperback Publisher: Sotheby's London; 1ST edition (Thursday 14th June 1990)
Language: English

Book description
Guitars, woodwind, brasswind, free reed, harps, keyboard, stringed instruments. Not all lots are pictured; some illus. in b/w. Harpsichord by Americus Backers.

Paperback Publisher: Sotheby's London, 17 Dec. 1997, Sale 7691

Hardcover: 182 pages
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Language: English

Hardcover: 157 pages
Publisher: Hamlyn (1970)
Language: English

Language: Inglés

Book description
Ce guide présente les collections permanentes du musée de la Musique. Il permet de suivre un parcours muséographique original, élaboré autour de 900 instruments de musique environ, présentés au visiteur à travers quelques étapes de l'histoire de la musique du XVIIe siècle à nous jours (la création de "L'Orfeo" de Monteverdi au palais ducal de Mantoue, la représentation d'Alceste de Lully dans la cour de Marbre du château de Versailles, etc.) L'Instrument de musique et sa facture sont constamment mis en relation avec l'écriture, la pratique et la vie musicales, les principales pièces de la collection faisant l'object de développements particuliers. Outre sa fonction de guide, cet ouvrage permet également d'aborder sous une forme originale plusieurs moments importants de l'évolution de la musique, principalement en France.

Rústica: 270 pages
Publisher: Réunion des Musées Nationaux / París
Language: Francés

Book description
Translated and edited from the edition of 1619 by David Z. Crookes Over the last dozen or so years the musical landscape has been changed significantly by the revival of early instrumental music. People are now making and playing many Renaissance and early baroque instruments which until recently were not even mentioned in standard dictionaries. Praetorius's De Organographia , first published in 1618, can be called the book behind the revival. While it has long been an essential tool for musicologists, it is now exercising a wider, more popular appeal as the growing multitude of instrument makers and players seek to base its efforts on this documentation Praetorius has provided. De Organographia is beyond argument the most important period book on musical instruments ever to be written. No comparable work gives us the wide range, the clarity of description, and above all the scale drawings that we find in Praetorius. CONTENIDO: Introduction, Translation, Commentary, Bibliography, Plates (42)

Rústica Publisher: Clarendon Press ( Colección Early Music Series / Oxford
Language: English

Book description
It's the best-looking musical encyclopedia ever! Using a completely visual approach, this ultimate reference has over 4,000 drawings showcasing the evolution of instruments--and music--from primitive whistles to electric guitars (complete with fuzz box and pedal). Exquisite illustrations accompany each entry, with painstaking detail and attention to structure, function, and decoration. Most extraordinary is the range of instruments included: orchestral, popular, classical, ancient, and folk. Classed by family groups, they are cross-referenced with material on geographical distribution and historical periods. Plus scores, diagrams of correct playing techniques, major figures, and other fascinating information provided by over forty researchers, writers, and illustrators, in cooperation with 200 scholars from 20 countries!.

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Facts on File; New Ed edition (October 1985)