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  • The Carl Jensen collection / American International Galleries.

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    • Irvine, CA : AIG, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
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    Text JMF 86-948Offsite
  • Music machines - American style; a catalog of the exhibition, by Cynthia A. Hoover. With introductory notes by Erik Barnouw and Irving Kolodin.

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    • Washington, Published for the National Museum of History and Technology by the Smithsonian Institution Press [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNF 71-35Offsite
  • Music machines - American style; a catalog of the exhibition, by Cynthia A. Hoover. With introductory notes by Erik Barnouw and Irving Kolodin.

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    • Washington, Published for the National Museum of History and Technology by the Smithsonian Institution Press [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *LE 71-114Offsite
  • Encyclopedia of automatic musical instruments, by Q. David Bowers. Incl. a Dictionary of automatic musical instrument terms.

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    • Vestal, N.Y., Vestal Press [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMF 72-519Offsite
  • House organ / Vestal Press.

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    • Vestal, N.Y. : Vestal Press, 1965-
    • 1965-1990
    • 1 Item
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    Text JMM 02-72 no. 1-21 (summer 1965-spring/summer 1985)Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • La tonotechnie ou L'art de noter sur les cylindres et tout ce qui est susceptible de notage dans les instruments de concerts méchaniques. (Réimpr. de l'éd. de Paris, 1775.)

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    • Genève, Minkoff Reprints, (1971).
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
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    Text JME 73-172Offsite
  • Illustrated catalogue of Heeren Bros. & Co., manufacturers and importers of musical boxes.

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    • Pittsburgh, Pa.
    • 18-
    • 1 Item
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    Text JMK 75-18 1895/96Offsite
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  • Mechanische Musikinstrumente und Musikautomaten : beschreibender Katalog der Seewener Privatsammlung / hrg. von Heinrich Weiss-Stauffacher und Rudolf Bruhin. [Anhang, Das Welte-Mignon-Reproduktionsklavier und seine musikgeschichtliche Bedeutung] / [Werner König].

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    • Seewen SO : H. Weiss-Stauffacher : [Auslfg., Pratteln : Interbook Productions, G. Kloos, 1975]
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMG 76-1191Offsite
  • A tune for a token : a catalogue of tokens and medals relating to automatic musical instruments, circa 1850-1930 / Q. David Bowers. 1st ed.

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    • Thiensville, Wis. : Token and Medal Society, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMF 76-510Offsite
  • Silver anniversary collection : selected articles from the Bulletin.

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    • Summit, N.J. : Musical Box Society International, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Text JME 77-53Offsite
  • A treatise on the construction, repairing and tuning of the organ, including also the reed organ, the orchestrelle and the player-piano, by Oliver C. Faust.

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    • Boston [1949]
    • 1949
    • 1 Item
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    Text JMB 76-21Offsite
  • Wurlitzer automatic musical instruments : manufactured by the Rudolph Wurlizter Co., Cincinnati, Chicago.

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    • Seattle, Wa., : F. Adams, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMF 78-562Offsite
  • The marvelous world of music machines [by] Heinrich Weiss-Stauffacher, with the collaboration of Rudolf Bruhin [Translated from the German by James Underwood]

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    • Tokyo, New York, Kodansha International [c1976]
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMG 78-29Offsite
  • Münchner Glockenspiel : d. Glockenspiel im Münchner Rathausturm / Corbinian J. Lachner ; [Fotos, Eduard Dietl].

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    • München : Hugendubel, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 80-265Offsite
  • Für Augen und Ohren : von der Spieluhr zum akustischen Environment : Objekte, Installation, Performances in der Akademie der Künste 20. Januar bis 2. März 1980 / Akademie der Künste und Berliner Festspiele GmbH, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD und dem Musikinstrumenten-Museum des Instituts für Musikforschung Preussischer Kulturbesitz ; [Konzeption, Organisation, Gestaltung von Ausstellung und Katalog, René Block ... et al.].

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    • Berlin : Die Akademie, c1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
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    Text JMD 81-369Offsite
  • Treasures of mechanical music / by Arthur A. Reblitz and Q. David Bowers.

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    • Vestal, N.Y. : Vestal Press, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMF 82-264Offsite
  • Joseph Haydn and the mechanical organ / Arthur W.J.G. Ord-Hume ; illustrated by the author.

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    • Cardiff, U.K. : University College Cardiff Press, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 83-70Offsite
  • Automatic musical instruments pricing guide.

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    • [Darien, Conn., W. H. Edgerton]
    • 197-1978
    • 1 Item
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    Text JMM 82-34 1977/1978Offsite
  • Das mechanische Musikkabinett / Siegfried Wendel.

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    • Dortmund : Harenberg, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMC 85-70Offsite
  • Music & automata.

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    • London, England : A.W.J.G. Ord-Hume, c1983-
    • 1983-1992
    • 2 Items
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    Text JML 99-6 v. 1, no. 1- v. 2, no. 8 (Mar. 1983-Feb. 1987)Offsite
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    Text JML 99-6 v. 3, no. 9-v. 4, no. 14 (Feb. 1987- July 1990)Offsite
  • The Mills Violano-Virtuoso : the famous self-playing violin and piano : how it works, how to service and rebuild it, together with a fascinating collection of previously unpublished pictures concerning its history, its inventor, and its manufacturer / by Mike Kitner and Art Reblitz.

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    • Vestal, N.Y. : Vestal Press, c1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 85-324Offsite
  • Macht und Klang : tönende Automaten als Realität und Fiktion in der alten und mittelalterlichen Welt / Reinhold Hammerstein.

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    • Bern : Francke, c1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 86-310Offsite
  • Mechanische Musikinstrumente : Einführung in Technik und Geschichte / Herbert Jüttemann.

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    • Frankfurt am Main : Verlag E. Bochinsky, c1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 89-260Offsite
  • The Murtogh Guinness collection.

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    • New York : The Collection, c1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 89-129Offsite
  • Museum für Mechanische Musikinstrumente, Baden-Baden.

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    • Braunschweig, Germany : Westermann, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMC 90-105Offsite
  • Heimatmuseum Treuchtlingen : Musik : Automaten, Grammophone, Instrumente / von Gertraud Zull ; mit einem Beitrag von Albert Schwab.

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    • München : Schnell & Steiner, c1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text *LE 90-2828Offsite
  • Cornelis Jacobus van Oeckelen, kunstwerker : leven en werken van een uitvinder van mechanische muziekinstrumenten (Breda, Batavia, Boston/New York) 1798-1865 / door J. van Haastert.

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    • Utrecht : Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
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    Text JME 92-425Offsite
  • Schaffen, Bauen und Erfinden : vom Mechaniker zum grössten Musikautomaten-Sammler der Welt / Heinrich Weiss ; Mitarbeit, Bernd Bunke.

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    • Basel : F. Reinhardt, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
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    Text JMD 93-306Offsite
  • Componium : the mechanical musical improvisor / by Philippe John Van Tiggelen.

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    • Louvain-la-Neuve : Institut supérieur d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art, Collège Erasme, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Text JMF 93-1317Offsite
  • Processional fanfare of the Augsburg Trumpeter Automat of 1582 : for 5 (10) baroque trumpets and timpani or brass quintet (2 trumpets, horn & 2 trombones, 2 trumpets & 3 trombones or 2 trumpetes [sic], horn, trombone & tuba) / Anonymous ; reconstructed by Edward H. Tarr.

    • Notated music
    • Köln : W.G. Haas, c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Notated music JMF 94-183Offsite
  • Les instruments de musique mécanique / texte original du Alexander Buchner ; adaptation française de Philippe Rouillé.

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    • Paris : Gründ, c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Text JMF 95-783Offsite
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  • Mechanical music.

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    • St. Paul, MN : Musical Box Society International
    • 1988-present
    • 33 Items
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    Text JMM 95-3 Library has: Vol. 34, no. 3 (winter 1988)-Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
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  • Musical machinery [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Reading : Unknown Public ; New York, NY : STBS [distributor], 1991-
    • 1994
  • Mechanische Musik : eine Bibliographie und eine Einführung in systematische und kulturhistorische Aspekte mechanischer Musikinstrumente / von Helmut Kowar.

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    • Wien : Vom Pasqualatihaus, 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 97-381Offsite
  • Player pianos and music boxes : keys to a musical past, being an illustrated treatise on the various types of mechanical musical instruments which have enlightened the spirits of mankind over many decades, with particular attention paid to pictures and advertising materials from the early days, and special emphasis on the remarkable musical characteristics of these devices / by Harvey N. Roehl.

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    • New York : The Vestal Press, c1968.
    • 1968
    • 2 Items
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    Text *MKY (Roehl, H. N. Keys to a musical past)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMF 97-384Offsite
  • Das Urheberrecht an Tonkunstwerken. Grundlagen zur Beurteilung der neuen Instrumente zu Musik vorführungen. (Phonograph, Theatrophon, Pianola.) Mit einer Einführung vom- Dr. Joseph Kohler.

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    • Berlin, W. Rothschild, 1907.
    • 1907
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433022440006
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    Text *IL (Eisenmann, E. Urheberrecht an Tonkunstwerken)Offsite
  • Touches à touches : pianos et brevets d'invention au XIXe siècle / [l'équipe rédactionnelle de cet ouvrage est constituée d'Yves Guilloux ... et al.].

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    • [Paris] : Edipso, [1997?]
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
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    Text JMG 98-537Offsite
  • A Descriptive inventory of the several exquisite and magnificent pieces of mechanism and jewellery comprised in the schedule annexed to an Act of Parliament made in the thirteenth year of His Present Majesty, George the Third, for enabling Mr. James Cox of the city of London, jeweller, to dispose of his museum by way of lottery.

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    • London : Printed by H. Hart ... for Mr. Cox ..., 1773.
    • 1773
    • 1 Item
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    Text MNO (Cox, J. Descriptive inventory of the several exquisite and magnificent pieces of mechanism and jewellery)Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

  • Mechanical music / Kevin McElhone.

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    • Princes Risborough : Shire, 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
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    Text JMD 99-349Offsite
  • Regulation and repair of piano and player mechanism, together with tuning as science and art ... By William Braid White.

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    • New York, E.L. Bill [c1909]
    • 1909
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MKD (White, W. B. Regulation and repair of piano and player mechanism)Offsite
  • A guidebook of automatic musical instruments. Edited and compiled by Q. David Bowers.

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    • Vestal, N.Y., Vestal Press [c1967-
    • 1967-present
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MKY (Bowers, Q. D. Guidebook of automatic musical instruments)Offsite
  • Put another nickel in; a history of coin-operated pianos and orchestrions, by Q. David Bowers.

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    • Vestal, N.Y., Vestal Press [1966]
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MKY (Bowers, Q. D. Put another nickel in)Offsite
  • Elektrische musik; eine gemeinverständliche darstellung ihrer grundlagen, des heutigen standes der technik und ihrer zukunftsmöglichkeiten, von dr. P. Lertes. Mit 169 abbildungen.

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    • Dresden, Leipzig, Theodor Steinkopff, 1933.
    • 1933
    • 1 Item
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    Text *MKY (Lertes, P. Elektrische musik)Offsite
  • Mechanische Musikinstrumente früherer Zeiten und ihre Musik; mit Kompositionen für mechanische Musikinstrumente von Franz Benda, C. Ph. Em. Bach, Leopold Mozart und Beethoven.

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    • Wiesbaden, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1960.
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
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    Text *MKY (Simon, E. Mechanische Musikinstrumente fruherer Zeiten und ihre Musik)Offsite
  • From music boxes to street organs [by] R. de Waard. Translated from the Dutch by Wade Jenkins.

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    • New York, Vestal Press [1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MKY (Waard, R. de. From music boxes to street organs)Offsite

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  • Van speeldoos tot pierement.

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    • Haarlem, Uitg. De. Toorts [1960?]
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MKY (Waard, R. de. Van speeldoos tot pierement)Offsite
  • The player-piano up-to-date ... A comprehensive treatise on the principles, construction, adjustment, regulation and use of pneumatic mechanisms for piano-playing, together with a description of the leading mechanisms now in use and some hints on the playing thereof, by William Braid White.

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    • New York, E.L. Bill [c1914]
    • 1914
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082263942
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MKYC (White, W. B. Player-piano up-to-date)Offsite
  • A technical treatise on piano player mechanism; together with some detailed description of various types of exterior and interior players, embracing manual, pneumatic, automatic, mechanical and electric. By Wm. B. White.

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    • New York, E.L. Bill [c1908]
    • 1908
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MKYC (White, W. B. Technical treatise on piano player mechanism)Offsite
  • Directions for the operation and care of the Wurlitzer harp. Cincinnati [192-?

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    • Vestal, N.Y., Vestal press, 1967?]
    • 1967-192
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MKYC (Wurlitzer, Rudolph, Company. Directions for the operation and care of the Wurlitzer harp)Offsite
  • Mechanical musical instruments. Translated by Iris Urwin.

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    • London, Batchworth Press [1959]
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text **MKY (Buchner, A. Mechanical musical instruments)Offsite

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