{"product_id":"treasures-of-mechanical-music-paperback","title":"Treasures of Mechanical Music - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArthur A. Reblitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eQ. David Bowers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains over four hundred fifty tuning scales, tracker scales and key frame layouts for player and reproducing pianos, coin pianos and orchestrions, music boxes, table-top organettes, reed, pipe, and electronic organs, barrel organs and various other miscellaneous mechanical musical instruments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the six hundred fifty pictures and illustrations, there are capsule histories of many of the companies which produced these instruments on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are numerous informative articles on such subjects as arranging piano rolls, how to decode an unknown scale, how \"nickelodeon\" rolls were originally made, selecting the type of roll to be used for a new orchestrion, arranging music for barrel organs, tuning antique instruments, how rolls are perforated and detailed pictorial tours of both the QRS and Play-Rite Music Roll factories as they manufactured rolls in the early 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's a good bit of information on player pipe organs, and for the carousel buffs, a fascinating collection of pictures of Charles Looff, the carousel builder, and many of the fine machines he made--all of which were fitted with beautiful mechanical organs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur A. Reblitz \u003c\/b\u003eis recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on automatic pianos and organs. He is a 1968 high honors graduate of the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Science in Music Education. Owner of Reblitz Restorations Inc., he and his employees have restored automatic instruments for many well-known private and public collections since 1964. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMr. Reblitz is also known worldwide as a music arranger for these instruments. His work has appeared on nationwide educational and network television, the National Geographic special \u003ci\u003eTreasures from the Past\u003c\/i\u003e, in the Rose Bowl Parade, Ringling Bros. and Barnum \u0026amp; Bailey Circus, Radio City Music Hall, the 1981 Paramount motion picture \u003ci\u003eReds\u003c\/i\u003e, and the television special \u003ci\u003eColorado's Historic Carousels.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOther books by Mr. Reblitz include \u003ci\u003eThe Reblitz-Bowers Encyclopedia of American Coin-Operated Pianos and Orchestrions\u003c\/i\u003e (co-authored with Q. David Bowers; 904 pp., 2020), \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments\u003c\/i\u003e (436 pp., full color, 2001), \u003ci\u003ePiano Servicing, Tuning and Rebuilding\u003c\/i\u003e (3rd edition, 2019), \u003ci\u003ePlayer Piano Servicing and Rebuilding \u003c\/i\u003e(1985)\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Mills Violano-Virtuoso\u003c\/i\u003e (co-authored with Mike Kitner, 1984). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eQ. David Bowers\u003c\/b\u003e has collected, studied, and enjoyed automatic musical instruments, beginning in 1960. In the intervening years he has written several books on the subject, including \u003ci\u003eA Guidebook of Automatic Musical Instruments \u003c\/i\u003e(1966), \u003ci\u003ePut Another Nickel In\u003c\/i\u003e (1968), \u003ci\u003e Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments \u003c\/i\u003e(1972), \u003ci\u003eThe Violin-Playing Machines\u003c\/i\u003e, (2012), \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of American Organettes\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), and \u003ci\u003eThe Reblitz-Bowers Encyclopedia of American Coin-Operated Pianos and Orchestrions\u003c\/i\u003e (904 pp., co-authored with Arthur Reblitz, 2020). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the late 1960s to the early 1980s he was a partner in Hathaway \u0026amp; Bowers, Inc. (with Terry Hathaway), American International Galleries, Inc. (with Bonnie Tekstra), and the Mekanisk Musik Museum (Copenhagen, with Claes Friberg). These companies were major suppliers of--and advisors to--many of the finest private and museum collections of automatic instruments ever formed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 1960 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, he is a recipient of the Pennsylvania State University College of Business Administration's Alumni Achievement Award (1976), a fellow of the American Antiquarian Association, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the American Numismatic Society, and is a trustee of the New Hampshire Historical Society (2010-2011).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 638\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.29 x 11 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50355462078701,"sku":"9781879511101","price":109.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/jKpOPxW9en9781879511101.webp?v=1785324196","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/treasures-of-mechanical-music-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}