The Manual of Musical Instrument Conservation - Hardcover

Stewart Pollens

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 110707780X ISBN 13: 9781107077805

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2015

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This book is a convenient, alphabetized reference work that deals comprehensively with the demands of caring for historic musical instruments.

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Stewart Pollens served between 1976 and 2006 as the conservator of musical instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he restored and maintained a collection of over five thousand instruments. He is the author of over eighty scholarly articles and four books, including Forgotten Instruments (1980), The Violin Forms of Antonio Stradivari (1992), The Early Pianoforte (1995; reprinted 2009), Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù (1998), François-Xavier Tourte: Bow Maker (2001), and Stradivari (2010), which won a 2011 Choice award for 'Outstanding Academic Title'. In 1997 he was the recipient of the American Musical Instrument Society's Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize for The Early Pianoforte, a study of the invention and early history of the pianoforte. He is also a contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and writes frequently for The Strad.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 110707780X
• ISBN 13: 9781107077805
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 550
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