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Author Good, Edwin M. (Edwin Marshall), 1928-2014.

Title Giraffes, black dragons, and other pianos [electronic resource] : a technological history from Cristofori to the modern concert grand / Edwin M. Good.

Imprint Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed.
Description xxv, 369 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-347) and index.
Contents Illustrations -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Author's note -- [ch.] 1. Technology and the piano -- [ch.] 2. The earliest pianos -- [ch.] 3. The classic piano -- [ch.] 4. Beethoven and the growing grand -- [ch.] 5. Pianos from early-nineteenth-century homes -- [ch.] 6. Iron enters the piano -- [ch.] 7. The french take the lead -- [ch.] 8. The radical americans -- [ch.] 9. The europeans imitate - or do not -- [ch.] 10. Some odds and dead ends -- [ch.] 11. The modern piano -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2008. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Piano -- History.
Piano -- Construction.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 0804733163
Standard No. 2027/heb05577 hdl

 
    
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