The Violin: Its Physical and Acoustic Principles
by Peterlongo, Paolo
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0800880196
- ISBN 13
- 9780800880194
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About This Item
New York: Taplinger Publishing, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Small quarto, blue cloth covered boards. 160pp. A complete guide to the construction, materials, physics, dynamics and audio properties of the violin with examples of great instruments by Guarnerius and Stradivarius inter alia. Generously illustrated with 26 figures in black and white and a section of 14 full color, full page glossy photgraphs of famous violins (front, back and side views) with detailed descriptions on the facing pages. A tight, clean, fresh, bright, unblemished volume with a small neat prior owner signature at top corner of ffep, else fine in a clean, bright, crisp dust jacket with a very short closed edgetear on rear top with a faint associated crease. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket. A nice copy..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 06249
- Title
- The Violin: Its Physical and Acoustic Principles
- Author
- Peterlongo, Paolo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0800880196
- ISBN 13
- 9780800880194
- Publisher
- Taplinger Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- VIOLIN MUSIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS STRINGS, INSTRUMENT, CONSTRUCTION, ILLUSTRATED, DIAGRAM, PETERLONGO, STRADIVARIUS, GUARNERI, STRADIVARI, BRIDGE, DYNAMICS, MATERIAL, TECHNIQUE, STRUCTURE, SOUND, TONE, FINISH, VIBRATION, PHYSICS, WOOD, EBONY,
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- Music;
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Brillig Books
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