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Author : Arthur A. Reblitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117954581
Image from the collections of Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village used on p. 14;neg. no. P.833.95043.2 Acc 1660.
Author : Q. David Bowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:902120325
Author : Richard Menke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315400280
From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things. This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This third volume, ‘Invention and Technology’, will look at a variety of Victorian inventions, both foundational and short-lived.
Author : Arthur A. Reblitz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538114452
For over forty years, Arthur A. Reblitz’s Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding has been the gold-standard manual for piano technicians and hands-on hobbyists who want to rebuild or maintain pianos. Reblitz demystifies the daunting prospect of working on a piano as he guides readers through every detail of upright and grand piano mechanics and describes servicing and repairs with understandable, easy-to-follow instructions. The third edition of this invaluable handbook includes over 60 new and 300 remastered images of piano anatomy, tools, and techniques; consideration of ivory alternatives and the newest adhesives and lubricants; new material covering the art of tuning by ear and today’s sophisticated electronic tuning devices; new repair and rebuilding techniques; and a brand new glossary of terms. Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding provides piano technician and servicing programs, pianists, and amateur players and hobbyists around the world with an essential twenty-first-century guide to achieving peak performance and maximum longevity for their instruments.
Author : Mark Palkovic
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781626194465
"Established in Cincinnati in 1856 by German immigrant Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer, the music dealer became the largest outlet for band instruments in the United States by 1865. During the silent film era in the early twentieth century, Wurlitzer manufactured nearly 2,250 theater organs, affectionately dubbed Mighty Wurlitzers. Many of these instruments still provide concert music today. During the Big Band era of the 1930s to 1950s, the company's colorful coin-operated jukeboxes were such popular fixtures in bars and dance halls that the U.S. Postal Service honored them with a commemorative stamp. Although the company was sold in 1988, the Wurlitzer name continues to be held in high esteem by the city of Cincinnati."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Brian Dolan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742564619
Brian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in relation to the history of the player piano is a critical chapter in the story of contemporary life. The player piano made the American music industry-and American music itself-modern. For years, Tin Pan Alley composers and performers labored over scores for quick ditties destined for the vaudeville circuit or librettos destined for the Broadway stage. But, the introduction of the player piano in the early 1900s, transformed Tin Pan Alley's guild of composers, performers, and theater owners into a music industry. The player piano, with its perforated music rolls that told the pianos what key to strike, changed musical performance because it made a musical piece standard, repeatable, and easy rather than something laboriously learned. It also created a national audience because the music that was played in New Orleans or Kansas City could also be played in New York or Missoula, as new music (ragtime) and dance (fox-trot) styles crisscrossed the continent along with the player piano's music rolls. By the 1920s, only automobile sales exceeded the amount generated by player pianos and their music rolls. Consigned today to the realm of collectors and technological arcane, the player piano was a moving force in American music and American life.
Author : Janet Sturman
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2730 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781483317748
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture presents key concepts in the study of music in its cultural context and provides an introduction to the discipline of ethnomusicology, its methods, concerns, and its contributions to knowledge and understanding of the world's musical cultures, styles, and practices. The diverse voices of contributors to this encyclopedia confirm ethnomusicology's fundamental ethos of inclusion and respect for diversity. Combined, the multiplicity of topics and approaches are presented in an easy-to-search A-Z format and offer a fresh perspective on the field and the subject of music in culture. Key features include: Approximately 730 signed articles, authored by prominent scholars, are arranged A-to-Z and published in a choice of print or electronic editions Pedagogical elements include Further Readings and Cross References to conclude each article and a Reader’s Guide in the front matter organizing entries by broad topical or thematic areas Back matter includes an annotated Resource Guide to further research (journals, books, and associations), an appendix listing notable archives, libraries, and museums, and a detailed Index The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and Cross References combine for thorough search-and-browse capabilities in the electronic edition
Author : John Spitzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226769776
Studies of concert life in nineteenth-century America have generally been limited to large orchestras and the programs we are familiar with today. But as this book reveals, audiences of that era enjoyed far more diverse musical experiences than this focus would suggest. To hear an orchestra, people were more likely to head to a beer garden, restaurant, or summer resort than to a concert hall. And what they heard weren’t just symphonic works—programs also included opera excerpts and arrangements, instrumental showpieces, comic numbers, and medleys of patriotic tunes. This book brings together musicologists and historians to investigate the many orchestras and programs that developed in nineteenth-century America. In addition to reflecting on the music that orchestras played and the socioeconomic aspects of building and maintaining orchestras, the book considers a wide range of topics, including audiences, entrepreneurs, concert arrangements, tours, and musicians’ unions. The authors also show that the period saw a massive influx of immigrant performers, the increasing ability of orchestras to travel across the nation, and the rising influence of women as listeners, patrons, and players. Painting a rich and detailed picture of nineteenth-century concert life, this collection will greatly broaden our understanding of America’s musical history.
Author : Guru Madhavan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780393651478
An ode to systems engineers—whose invisible work undergirds our life—and an exploration of the wicked problems they tackle. Our world is filled with pernicious problems. How, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without taking to the air and risking their lives? How should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment? Challenges that tangle personal, public, and planetary aspects—often occurring in health care, infrastructure, business, and policy—are known as wicked problems, and they are not going away anytime soon. In linked chapters focusing on key facets of systems engineering—efficiency, vagueness, vulnerability, safety, maintenance, and resilience—engineer Guru Madhavan illuminates how wicked problems have emerged throughout history and how best to address them in the future. He examines best-known tragedies and lesser-known tales, from the efficient design of battleships to a volcano eruption that curtailed global commerce, and how maintenance of our sanitation systems constitutes tikkun olam, or repair of our world. Braided throughout is the uplifting tale of Edwin Link, an unsung hero who revolutionized aviation with his flight trainer. In Link’s story, Madhavan uncovers a model mindset to engage with wickedness. An homage to society’s innovators and maintainers, Wicked Problems offers a refreshing vision for readers of all backgrounds to build a better future and demonstrates how engineering is a cultural choice—one that requires us to restlessly find ways to transform society, but perhaps more critically, to care for the creations that already exist.
Author : John Koegel
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580462150
A history -- the first ever -- of the abundant traditions of German-American musical theater in New York, and a treasure trove of songs and information.
Author : AndrŽ Dombrowski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520273399
"Cézanne, Murder and Modern Life changes the way we think about—and see—Cézanne’s entire oeuvre. Dombrowski’s arguments are convincing and bold, especially on the theme of murder as a vehicle for representation. Modern Olympia has never before been so satisfactorily analyzed." Susan Sidlauskus, Rutgers University, author of Cezanne's Other: The Portraits of Hortense “Exciting and intelligent, Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life will be important for modernists, and essential for scholars of Cézanne, early Impressionism, and painting in the 1860s. Dombrowski shows us a Cézanne we did not know.” Nancy Locke, author of Manet and the Family Romance
Author : Derek B. Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108484589
Uncovers a world of forgotten triumphs of musical theatre that shine a light on major social topics. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author : Hells Lefse
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781627099073
"Christmas a time to warm the hearts and souls of young and old and good and bad. Wait a minute did we say "bad"? Sven, Lena and Ole are off for a much needed vacation to the country no one wants. Situated between Canada and the United States lies the tiny nation called Snot Islands. The United States "does not" want them and Canada "does not" want them. The islands got their name from a clerical error. Someone a long time ago was told to record the name of this little nation. They heard the word "does not" and because it was said quickly and no one bothered to say "what did you say? " "Does not" was misunderstood to become "snot" and that is how the Snot Islands came to exist. As fate would have it our little island nation was destined to become a major player in this new technically advanced world of Christmas. A handful of strange and eccentric residents and a nation obsessed with booger's is about to start a brand new Christmas tradition. For the old at heart and the young of mind grab the family and curl up in front of the fireplace. Serve hot chocolate and eggnog to everyone. If you're Scandinavian and even if you are not a good helping of Lefse is always a great yuletide treat. Now pick up this book and start a new family tradition as old as the word itself. Read out loud to your family and loved ones of the world's greatest new Christmas icon "The Booger Fairy.""
Author : Q. David Bowers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475741258
Author : Q. David Bowers
Publisher : Vestal, N.Y : Vestal Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Mechanical musical instruments
ISBN : UOM:39015062485845