Antique Musical Instruments Key String Wind Scarce Book

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"Attractively illustrated with 150 pictures, including photographs, drawings, sketches, paintings, sculptures, woodcuts and musical scores, 32 of them in color, this text is a lively and handsome study of a fascinating subject, intelligible to the layman who comes fresh to it and a perceptive guide for anyone who has an interest in the world of music."

THE WORLD OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS by Alan Kendall, Hamlyn, NY, 1972 First Edition.

This most informative book covers by chapter: Stringed Instruments; Wind Instruments; Percussion Instruments; Keyboard Instruments; Contemporary Instruments - The Future; and Index. The author describes "how musical instruments have always been bound up with man's history, who played them, how they are played and how they are likely to evolve. He concentrates on the chief classical musical instruments of the Western World, on how the main types of instruments developed over the centuries, and on the basic principles by which they function. He explains how they differ from each other and from some of their chief counterparts in the rest of the world, and explores the relationships with some of the world's folk instruments. From the lyre of Apollo to the electronic sounds of tomorrow, the great families of musical instruments are discussed and described."

8.6" x 11.5" hardback with dust cover in protective plastic sleeve in near-new condition. 128 pages.

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