The Violin: Its Physical and Acoustic Principles

Peterlongo, Paolo

ISBN 10: 0800880196 / ISBN 13: 9780800880194

Published by Taplinger Publishing, New York, 1979

About this Item

Small quarto, blue cloth covered boards. 160pp. A complete guide to the construction, materials, physics, dynamics and audio properties of the violin with examples of great instruments by Guarnerius and Stradivarius inter alia. Generously illustrated with 26 figures in black and white and a section of 14 full color, full page glossy photgraphs of famous violins (front, back and side views) with detailed descriptions on the facing pages. A tight, clean, fresh, bright, unblemished volume with a small neat prior owner signature at top corner of ffep, else fine in a clean, bright, crisp dust jacket with a very short closed edgetear on rear top with a faint associated crease. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. A nice copy. Seller Inventory # 06249

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Violin: Its Physical and Acoustic ...

Publisher: Taplinger Publishing, New York

Publication Date: 1979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Physical description; (160 pages) : illustrations. Subjects; Bowed stringed instruments -- Construction. Violin -- Construction. Music -- Acoustics and physics.