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The Music Trade Review
JANUARY 5, 1929
Piano Playing
Mechanisms"!
A Text Book Dealing Comprehensively and Authoritatively with
the Technical and Practical Phases of the PLAYER-PIANO
and REPRODUCING PIANO—Their Construction, Design
and Repair—
William Braid
White, the author of
"PIANO PLAYING
MECHANISMS"
writes with a back-
ground of twenty-five
years' study and investi-
gation in the field, his book
setting forth, clearly and
completely, the details of
every piano playing mechan-
ism appearing on the market
since the first cabinet players
in 1896 up to the modern repro-
ducing pianos.
A Long Needed Book!
"Piano Playing Mechanisms"
is of essential importance to the manu-
facturer, the retail merchant, the tuner
and repairman, and the salesmen who
have long felt the necessity of such
a volume, dealing as it does with the
most modern development of the player-
piano and constituting the first adequate
and scientific treatment of this vital but
little understood subject. Mr. White is
recognized as the best informed writer
in the United States, or elsewhere, on
the subject of piano playing mechan-
isms. He knows whereof he writes and
he makes the book tell all I
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter I. First Principles
Chapter II. The Modern Player-Piano De-
scribed
Chapter III. Dimensions and Pressures
Chapter IV. Automatic Power and Auto-
matic Expression
Chapter V. The Reproducing Piano
Chapter VI. The Coin-Operated Player-
Piano
Chapter VII. Repair and Maintenance
List of Illustrations
Index
Complete in Every Detail
Take Advantage of This Offer at
Once by Clipping the Coupon Below
—Prompt Receipt Assured!
Edward Lyman Bill, Inc.
420 Lexington Avenue, New York
Enclosed find $3.00—check—money order—i cash—for
which you will please send me "Piano Playing Mechan-
isms" postage prepaid.
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