| Description |
320 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Aerophones -- Idiophones -- Membranophones -- Chordophones -- Mechanical and electrical instruments -- Instruments around the world -- Instruments through the ages -- Musical ensembles -- Makers, virtuosi, writers |
| Summary |
Details the forms, decoration, evolutions, methods of sounding past and present, and mechanical and electrical instruments from around the world, ranging through folk, popular, orchestral, and national instruments of every kind |
| Analysis |
Musical instruments, to 1976 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 314-315 |
| Subject |
Musical instruments -- Encyclopedias.
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Musical instruments -- Dictionaries.
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| Author |
Diagram Group.
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| LC no. |
76021722 |
| ISBN |
0846701340 |
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