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Collecting Musical Boxes and How to Repair Them

ARTHUR W.J.G. ORD-HUME

Crown Publishers, Inc.

This book could be described as a scrapbook - a collection of interesting, amusing, trifling and dated ephemera. It could also be described as the first illuminated history of the musical box, indeed, of mechanical music as a whole. Whatever you, the reader, choose to call it depends on just how much you want to gain from it. For some, a collection of old advertisements of long-defunct companies from aged publications is valueless; for others it is a priceless asset and an aid and inspiration to further study. For the author, his archives, amassed over the twenty or so years in which he worked with and collected mechanical musical instruments, have proved a source of almost endless information and interest. The content here has been subdivided into sections, each provided with an introductory text. Every item also bears a suitable descriptive caption. [From the Author's Preface]

Clockwork Music: An illustrated history of mechanical musical instruments from the musical box to the pianola, from automaton lady virginal players to orchestrion

Crown, Publishers

Details the history of musical clocks and their makers in Britain, Scandinavia, Continental Europe and the USA. It deals with the various types of musical, clocks, their styles and mechanisms, describing how they differ from chiming clocks, as well as discussing the tunes played and the composers who wrote music specially for them.

Musical Clock, The: Musical and Automaton Clocks and Watches

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Mayfield Books

Restoring Musical Boxes and Musical Clocks

Arts & Photography

Music

With more than a little nostalgia for the days when flying was still an adventure that anyone could participate in and the sky was less restricted and controlled than it is today, the author presents to us one of the original participants in that adventure. Frenchman Henri Mignet's creation, the Flying Flea provided aviation enthusiasts of the era with a viable machine for a mere 25 (65 with a decent engine). He took on the UK aviation bureaucracy and won, allowing ordinary folk to build and fly his soon-to-be-famous little machine. His story is the stuff of Boy's Own heroics and in the telling of it the author allows us to join him in re-living his own youthful enthusiasms in the early years of flying.

Flying Flea; Henri Mignet's Pou-Du-Ciel

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Stenlake Publishing

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