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The Organ: A Quarterly Review for its Makers, its Players & its Lovers Vol XLIX 1969

By: N/A

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Musical Opinion:

Seller ID: 12757

Binding: Paperback

B/w plates. No's 193/194 only. Ex Library. Contents includes: The Organ of - Winchester College Chapel; the Church of St Eustache, Paris; St Laurence, Alkmaar; Newton Mearns Parish Church; The Embassy Chapels of 18th century London. The Organs of - Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral; Kendal Parish Church; The King's School, Parramatta, N S W; The Later History of the Rckpositiv; TheOrgans of Oliwa; Sir John Sutton in Germany.
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Masters of the Keyboard. a Brief Survey of Pianoforte Music

By: Apel, Willi

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University: 1947

Seller ID: 9271

ISBN: 0674553004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

323pp, music examples. Ex college library plate on front paste down, dust jacket a little chipped. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK.
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The Trumpet and Trombone An Outline of Their History, Development and Construction

By: Bate, Philip

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ernest Benn: 1978

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 9229

ISBN: 0510364136

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

299pp, plates, illustrations. ; Instruments of the Orchestra
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The Oboe. An Outline of its History, Development and Construction

By: Bate, Philip

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Ernest Benn: 1956

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 9868

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

236pp, 8 plates, text figures. Slight edge wear, dust jacket price clipped. ; Instruments of the Orchestra
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History of the Pianoforte (1879)

By: Brinsmead, Edgar

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Frits Knuf: 1986

Seller ID: 7562

ISBN: 9060275004

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

201pp, illustrations. A mid-19th century overview of the development of the piano and earlier forms of keyboard instruments from the Ancients until the 1870s. Examines the forerunners of the piano, including the clavicytherium, virginals, spinet and harpsichord, and the fundamental acoustic properties they have in common, to the invention and development of the modern instrument and the work of significant European and British makers. Facsimile reprint.
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Musical Wind Instruments: A History of the Wind Instruments Used in European Orchestras and Wind-Bands from the Later Middle Ages Up to the Present Time

By: Carse, Adam

Price: £12.00

Publisher: MacMillan: 1939

Seller ID: 11723

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

xv, 381pp, plates, fingering charts, text figures. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. Previous owner's signature on endpaper, slight rubbing to boards, no dust jacket.
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The Countess of Stanlein Restored. a History of the Countess of Stanlein Ex Paganini Stradavarius Cello of 1707

By: Delbanco, Nicholas

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Verso: 2001

Seller ID: 10499

ISBN: 1859847617

Binding: Hardcover; Quarter cloth, paper boards.

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

104pp, illustrations. ; Small 8vo
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The Instruments of Music

By: Donington, Robert

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Methuen: 1962

Seller ID: 9071

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

202pp, plates, illustrations. A little creasing to back cover, previous owner's signature.
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Instruments of Religion and Folklore

By: Fox, Lilla M.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Lutterworth Press: 1969

Seller ID: 7108

ISBN: 071881374X

Binding: Hardcover

135pp, drawings by the author. Ex library stamp on title page & verso, else very good in very good dust jacket.
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The Organ and its Music in German-Jewish Culture

By: Frühauf, Tina

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2009

Seller ID: 10978

ISBN: 0195337069

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

296pp, 14 halftones, 21 musical examples.
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Old English Instruments of Music. Their History and Character

By: Galpin, Francis W.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: 1932

Seller ID: 10794

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

xxvii, 327pp, 57 plates, 47 text illustrations. Book plate of the Athenaum Library, Liverpool, no dust jacket.
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Musical Instruments: Their History in Western Culture from the Stone Age to the Present Day.

By: Geiringer, Karl

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Allen & Unwin: 1949

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 3788

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

340pp, colour frontis, pates, text figures. Price clipped dust jacket, chipped with slight loss.
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Musical Instruments: Their History in Western Culture from the Stone Age to the Present Day.

By: Geiringer, Karl

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Allen & Unwin: 1943

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 11822

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

339pp, colour frontis, pates, text figures. No dust jacket.
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The Organs of St Albans Abbey. The History of the Organs Up to 1929 is Largely Drawn from 'A History of the Organs At the Cathedral of St Albans' by G C Straker

By: Hurford, Peter

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Tythings Court Press: 1965

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 9842

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

15pp, illustrations.
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The Horn

By: Janetzky, Kurt and Brüchle, Bernhard

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Batsford: 1988

Seller ID: 11406

ISBN: 0713456817

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

127pp, plates, colour & b/w, text illustrations, music examples.; The Batsford Musical Instruments Series
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The Oboe and the Bassoon

By: Joppig, Gunther

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Batsford: 1988

Seller ID: 9988

ISBN: 0713456809

Binding: Hardcover; Blue Cloth, Gilt Titles

223pp, illustrations, colour & b/w, music examples. Translated from the German by Alfred Clayton. Front endpaper removed else very good in very good dust jacket.
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Rock 'n' Roll Collectables - An Illustrated History of Rock Memorabilia

By: Kay, Hillary

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Pyramid Books: 1992

Seller ID: 6220

ISBN: 185510069X

Binding: Hardcover; Black Cloth, silver titles

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

208pp including index. Many colour and b/w photos. Covers musical instruments, printed memorabilia, rock stars' cars, rock stars' outfits, rock 'n' roll art. HEAVY BOOK, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK.
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The Clarinet in the Classical Period

By: Rice, Albert R.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 12882

ISBN: 019514483X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

336pp, 7 halftones, 12 line illustrations, 52 music examples. A comprehensive study of the clarinet in use through the classical period, 1760 to 1830. The book provides a detailed review and analysis of construction, design, materials, and makers of clarinets and also explores how clarinet construction and performance practice developed in tandem with the musical styles of the period.
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