Automatic Organs : a guide to orchestrions, barrel organs, fairground, dancehall & street organs including organettes
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Automatic Organs : a guide to orchestrions, barrel organs, fairground, dancehall & street organs including organettes
（A Schiffer book）
Schiffer Pub., c2007
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents of Works
- Automatic pipe organs & how they work
- Mechanical Instruments & automatic music in history
- Italian water gardens & mediaeval hydraulic organs
- The golden age of mechanical music machines
- Clockwork organs & musical clocks
- Barrel organs for both church & home
- Orchestrions & the age of mechanical creativity
- Street organs & music for the masses
- Showground & dancehall organs
- Reed organs & the portable organette
- Small domestic organs & perforated paper music
- Concert instruments & the reproducing pipe organ
- Musical repertoire & the fidelity of performance
- The social impact of the automatic organ
- Automatic organs in the 21st century
- Mechanical organ preservation, conservation & restoration
- Pneumatic organ preservation, conservation & restoration
- Living with the automatic organ : care & maintenance
- Appendix 1. How automatic organs were advertised & sold
- Appendix 2. List of makers, distributors & inventors
- Appendix 3. Mechanical organ tuning scales
- Appendix 4. What's it worth? valuation & price guide
- Appendix 5. Support organisations for mechanical organ enthusiasts
- Appendix 6. A selective discography