The Classical Reproducing Piano Roll: Set a Catalogue-Index [2 Volumes]

by Larry Sitsky

In the history of the piano, the brief appearance of the mechanical piano's most sophisticated manifestation, the reproducing piano (not to be confused with the pianola) is of special interest and importance. Unique among mechanical musical instruments, the reproducing piano had an incredibly refined capacity to reproduce the playing of the great pianists who recorded on it. The turn of the century to 1930 was a period of high activity during which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313254966
• ISBN13: 9780313254963
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 1440 Pages
• Weight: 5.50 lbs.