Mechanical music / Kevin McElhone.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Shire album ; 333Publisher: Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire : Shire Publications, 1997Description: 32 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0747803544
  • 9780747803546
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Kevin McElhone describes the history, development and fall from favour of many types of mechanical musical instruments from pocket-sized snuff boxes to roll-playing pipe organs.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room ML1050 .M21 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000043782

"A survey of musical boxes, street organs, player pianos, indoor organs and other mechanical instruments"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (page 32).

Kevin McElhone describes the history, development and fall from favour of many types of mechanical musical instruments from pocket-sized snuff boxes to roll-playing pipe organs.

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Shire Album No. 333

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