The curious history of music boxes / by Roy Mosoriak.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : Lightner Publishing Corporation, [1943]Copyright date: ©1943Description: 242 pages : illustrations, plates ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
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Contents:
Part 1. [General introduction] -- Part 2. Early obscure origin of automatic music -- Part 3. 1789 A.D. -- Part 4. Obscure origin of "music-work" -- Part 5. 1806-1833 -- Part 6. 1848-1905 -- A word to collectors -- Checklist of makers, et cetera -- Manufacturers of music works and music boxes -- Music-box musicology [List of compositions emulating the sound of music boxes] -- [Appendices.] More music boxes ; Mechanical singing birds ; Grandmother's snuffbox ; Musical steins ; Musical dolls ; Musical toys ; Hrudy-gurdies at auction] ; Musical jugs ; The zither-playing android, Isis ; Rare La pièce à oiseau music box ; Dancing doll music box -- Expert music box repairers ; Points to remember when buying a music box ; The care of a music box ; Repairing the music box : illustrated, detailed instructions wirtten for the benefit of clock and watchmakers / by Glenn P. Heckert.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room ML1055.M8 M6 1943 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000031993

Includes a section (pages 193-233) on the care and repairing of the music box, by Glenn P. Heckert.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-164).

Part 1. [General introduction] -- Part 2. Early obscure origin of automatic music -- Part 3. 1789 A.D. -- Part 4. Obscure origin of "music-work" -- Part 5. 1806-1833 -- Part 6. 1848-1905 -- A word to collectors -- Checklist of makers, et cetera -- Manufacturers of music works and music boxes -- Music-box musicology [List of compositions emulating the sound of music boxes] -- [Appendices.] More music boxes ; Mechanical singing birds ; Grandmother's snuffbox ; Musical steins ; Musical dolls ; Musical toys ; Hrudy-gurdies at auction] ; Musical jugs ; The zither-playing android, Isis ; Rare La pièce à oiseau music box ; Dancing doll music box -- Expert music box repairers ; Points to remember when buying a music box ; The care of a music box ; Repairing the music box : illustrated, detailed instructions wirtten for the benefit of clock and watchmakers / by Glenn P. Heckert.

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Monograph, illustrated on he hostory of Music Boxes, both disc and cylinder

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