Describes how to repair all types of cylinder and disk musical boxes, singing birds, also bell, organ and dulcimer musical clock mechanisms and their cases. There are details on how to repin cylinders, repair disc, re-cover bellows and make new organ pipes. Also learn the correct way to care for bells, and restring dulcimers &emdash; as well as many other restoration tasks, from replacing the massive drive springs to case repairs. Arranging music for mechanical musical instruments, repinning musical barrels, materials and tools. The text is accompanied by numerous superb line drawings and many photographs. A practical book with emphasis throughout on good conservation and restoration techniques. Musical theory and the principles of tuning appropriate to the restoration of mechanical musical instruments, and a glossary of mechanical and musical terms to enable the clockmaker to put new music on a cylinder.
Arthur Ord-Hume is an acknowledged authority and author on all aspects of mechanical music, who has advised on musical boxes and musical clocks to museums round the world. He is also the author of The Musical Clock.
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ISBN 0 9523270 2 3
246 x 174mm, 368 pages, 180 illustrations and 184 diagrams, hardback with full-colour dust jacket, £34.99