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This huge tome has a bit of everything related to mechanical music. It has a history of each manufacturer, a list of the products they produced, and lots of photos and reproductions of old ads, factory photos, manuals etc. In very good condition with protective cello dust jacket - originally from a public library in Nevada.
The author has done a fantastic job of documenting and mapping the paper or cardboard rolls for each instrument to the actual scale and instruments being played. For anyone trying to restore an old machine, or adapt one sort of instrument to play music composed for another, this is a priceless treasure. To the best of my knowledge, much of this information is not available anywhere else, and it would be incredibly time-consuming to reproduce.