Pollens Stewart (134 results)

Condition: Very Good. 64 pp., Paperback, minor ownership markings to front cover, small library stamp to title page, else very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 144 pages. 8.20x5.30x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover, 11 by 8 1/2 inches, 64 pages, illustrated. Covers have slight wear and the pages are clean.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 352 pages. 8.90x1.00x5.90 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. New. This book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to the development of the modern piano. It reveals the principles of their design and describes structural and mechanical developments through the medieval and renaissance periods and eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, as well as the early music revival. Stewart Pollens identifies and describes the types of keyboard instruments played by major composers and virtuosi through the ages and provides the reader with detailed instructions on their regulating, stringing, tuning and voicing drawn from historical sources.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention of the Piano. Book.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Early Pianoforte. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. A firm and square hardback with sharp corners and strong joints, just showing a few very minor cosmetic rubs. Hence a non-text page has a small 'damaged' stamp. Despite such this book is actually in nearly new condition and appears unread. Thus the contents are crisp, fresh and tight; no pen-marks. Now offered for sale at a very sensible price.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. SCARCE. Card laid-in reads " Your generous support helped to make this catalogue possible. Thank you. Betty Himmel". 64pp in original illustrated stiff wraps, with photographs throughout. Includes bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, folk instruments, experimental instruments, eccentric instruments and more. First few pages are detached.…

Paperback. Condition: New. This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Paduan-born harpsichord maker and contemporary of Antonio Stradivari, who is credited with having invented the pianoforte around the year 1700 while working in the Medici court in Florence. Through thorough analysis of documents preserved in the State Archive of Florence, Pollens has reconstructed, in unprecedented technical detail, Cristofori's working life between his arrival in Florence in 1688 and his death in 1732. This book will be of interest to pianists, historians of the piano, musicologists, museum curators and conservators, as well as keyboard instrument makers, restorers, and tuners.…

Paperback. Condition: New. This is the first comprehensive historical and technological study of the pianoforte based on important primary source material. Most histories of the piano begin with its invention by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence in about 1700: this study begins with the earliest fifteenth- and sixteenth-century manuscript sources and extends over Cristofori's rediscovery of the principle of the hammer action, the early exportation of Florentine pianofortes to prominent European courts, and the building of copies of these instruments in Portugal, Spain and Germany. Technical information is presented in a comparative format and the text is illustrated with many photographs, measurements, line drawings and tables. While written primarily for the technical specialist, there is much here of significance for the history of the piano and performance practice.…

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Condition: New. This is the first comprehensive study of the history and technology of the early piano. Series: Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs. Num Pages: 320 pages, 158 b/w illus. 24 tables. BIC Classification: AVRG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 246 x 23. Weight in Grams: 614. . 2009. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .…