Automatic Musical Instruments Mechanics (11 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Slight wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, 4to. With summary in Dutch.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, 4to. With summary in Dutch.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Original gilt lettered green cloth, dust jacket, illustrated in b/w, sheet music, 4to. Signed with dedication by the author on forst free endpaper.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Large format. Pp 273. Illustrated throughout in black & white with photographs & musical notation. Signed presentation inscription in Latin by the author on front endpaper. Summary in Dutch. Both contents and dustwrapper in Fine condition. Appears unused. VERY HEAVY. Extra postage may be required.…

Quart, silbergeprägtes Org.-Ganzleinen mit illustriertem Org.-SU, 275 (+ 1) S., mit zahlreichen s/w-Illustrationen und Noten, wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. ISBAN 9090017747. - ENGLISH: Quarto, publisher's cloth with illustrated publisher's DJ,275 (+ 1) pp., a well preserved copy. - Aus dem Inhalt: Theory and Practice. The Mechanics. Tuning and temperament. Pitch, compass and scale. The music. Summarry. Glossary. Index of names and institutions. ISBAN 9090017747. - ENGLISH: Quarto, publisher's cloth with illustrated publisher's DJ,275 (+ 1) pp., a well preserved copy. - Aus dem Inhalt: Theory and Practice. The Mechanics. Tuning and temperament. Pitch, compass and scale. The music. Summarry. Glossary. Index of names and institutions. 1001 g.…

FIRST EDITION Large 4to. dark green clothbound hardback, gilt, in dust jacket. 275pp. with b/w illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate to inside front cover. Dust jacket not price-clipped. VG/VG. (Shelf 7) ISBN: 9090017747 PLEASE NOTE: Heavy Book (1.4 kg+: postage outside the UK might incur a surcharge). Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.…

Hardcover. Condition: gut. 1987. Automatic Musical Instruments: their mechanics and their music 1580-1820 *SIGNED* In deutscher Sprache. pages.

hardcover. dj. First edition. 4to. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, "To my friends Ann & Frank Conroy / as a souvenir of 6/20/99 / (signed) Jan Jaap Haspels." This book concentrates on the essentials that set tose instruments apart from all other mucial instruments. The technical ingredients are enumerated: the motive power, the trransmission systems, the speed-regulating devices and the musical programme. The music is discussed and a great number of historical musical programmes is transcribed from cylinders and discs into conventional staff notation. Relevant 17th - 19th-cenetury works by de Caus, Fludd, Practorius, Mersenne, Kircher, Schott, Werchmeister, Engramelle, Bedos and Bruder arer evaluated; their information, instructions, and conclusions on the manufacture and functioning of musical automata are compared with the conclusions resultingf from the study of a wide variety of still-extant contemporaneous automatophones. Bound in green cloth with gold lettering. 275 pages with summary (in Dutch), glossary, bibliography, index of names and institutions, photo credits and curriculum vitae. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. A presentation copy of the first edition of this dissertation study signed and inscribed by the author. First edition of Automatic Musical Instruments Their Mechanics and Their Music 1580-1820 by Jan Jacob Leonard Haspels in the original publisher's cloth binding.A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author to the first free endpaper. Addressed to John Partridge 'with great thanks and special reference to the Partridge-Charles Clay organ clock!'.Institution label of Partridge (Fine Arts) Ltd to the first free endpaper, the antique dealer the inscription is addressed to.A densely illustrated dissertation publication with black and white photography throughout. In the original publisher's cloth biding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent. There is some very slight wear to the extremities of the dust wrapper. To the binding, there are some very light marks to the boards. Presentation inscription in ink by the author to the first free endpaper and institution label. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Fine. Various (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

Cartonnée verte. Condition: Comme neuf. Dust Jacket Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. Thèse de référence (en langue anglaise) sur les horloges musicales et autres instruments de musique automatisés (boites, montres.) construits de 1580 à 1820. Principaux chapitres: Theory and Practice. The Mechanics. Tuning and temperament. Pitch, compass and scale. The music. Summarry. Glossary. Index of names and institutions. CV. Cet ouvrage hors commerce, superbement documenté et illustré est la très belle édition de la thèse de Doctorat présentée par l'auteur à Université Royale d'Utrecht le 27 mai 1987. Il comporte également la transcription musicale de 50 partitions de cylindres musicaux et disques avec une scrupuleuse précision sur leurs ornements et l'inégalité de leur exécution, leur tempo, disposition et registre. Parmi elles des oeuvres encore jamais publiées de GF Haendel. Un ouvrage d'un extraordinaire intérêt historique, horloger et musicologique. Etat parfait.…