Author: Edgar Brinsmead
Title: The History of the Pianoforte
Description: London, Novello, Ewer & Co. 1879. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated edition of Brinsmead's history of the pianoforte. With a frontispiece, eleven plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed history of the pianoforte, including chapters on sound, transverse vibrations, tuning, the history of stringed instruments, the first instruments with the pianoforte keyboard, invention and progress, and useful hints upon selecting and tuning pianos. With an account of the theory of sound as well as the music and musical instruments of the ancients. Written by Edgar Brinsmead, a British music historian. In the original full blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Light fading to the spine and board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot and light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Keywords: History Pianoforte Brinsmead Pianoforte None


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