Mechanical Music Digest  Archives
You Are Not Logged In Login/Get New Account
Please Log In. Accounts are free!
Logged In users are granted additional features including a more current version of the Archives and a simplified process for submitting articles.
Home Archives Calendar Gallery Store Links Info
MMD > Archives > June 1997 > 1997.06.12 > 14Prev  Next


FS: New Restoration Book by Ord-Hume
By Nancy Fratti

Hi!

HOT OFF THE PRESS......JUST IN!!!

The only book currently in print that deals with RESTORATION
TECHNIQUES in Musical Boxes & Clocks!

"RESTORING MUSICAL BOXES & MUSICAL CLOCKS"
                                by
             Arthur W. J. G.  Ord-Hume

11 Chapters cover such topics as:

    Workshop requirements & skills
    Restoring Cylinder Musical Boxes
    Repinning Musical Box Cylinders
    Restoring Disc Playing Musical Boxes
    Miniature Musical Movements & Singing Birds
    Types of  Musical Movements Found in Clocks
    Restoring the Carillon Movement in Clocks
    Restoring Small Pipe Organs in Clocks
    Restoring the Dulcimer Mechanism in Clocks
    Restoring the Cases of Musical Boxes & Clocks
    Documentation, Display, Demonstration & Conservation

5 Appendices include:

    Glossary
            Mechanical Musical Instruments & their Components
            Musical Theory
    Music for the Musical Clock
    Musical Theory and the Principles of TUNING
    SUPPLIERS of Restoration Materials
    Disaster Survival - Emergency & Salvage Action

All this, 368 pages,  in HARDCOVER for only $59.95 + $4.50 postage.

Send check or credit card # and exp. date to:

    Nancy Fratti
    PO BOX 210
    Whitehall, NY 12887-0210

e-mail:  MusicBoxLady@Juno.com
Fax:  518-181-9800
phone; 518-282-9770


(Message sent Thu 12 Jun 1997, 18:37:22 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

Key Words in Subject:  Book, FS, New, Ord-Hume, Restoration

Home    Archives    Calendar    Gallery    Store    Links    Info   


Enter text below to search the MMD Website with Google



CONTACT FORM: Click HERE to write to the editor, or to post a message about Mechanical Musical Instruments to the MMD

Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are those of the individual authors and may not represent those of the editors. Compilation copyright 1995-2024 by Jody Kravitz.

Please read our Republication Policy before copying information from or creating links to this web site.

Click HERE to contact the webmaster regarding problems with the website.

Please support publication of the MMD by donating online

Please Support Publication of the MMD with your Generous Donation

Pay via PayPal

No PayPal account required

                                     
Translate This Page