Ancient European Musical Instruments - Nicholas Bessaraboff

Very well maintained. Small signs of wear but no tears, scratches or major flaws. Ancient European Musical Instruments - Nicholas BessaraboffFrom the book's preface: "The author of this volume, Mr Nicholas Bessaraboff, an American citizen born at Voronezh, Russie, has been actively interested in music since boyhood, when he played the French horn and other wind instruments. Despite his devotion to music, he studied mechanical engineering at the Polytechnical Institute at St. Petersburg. His life's work has been divided between mechanical engineering and the study of old musical instruments. In 1920, at Rochester, New York, he began to study seriously the history, construction, and acoustic.