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The Tuba Family
by Bevan, Clifford
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 057110522X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571105229
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. 057110522X . No signatures. Some foxing to page edges. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 303, [1 (blank)] pages. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 233 x 154mm. "The tuba has long been well known as a regular and valuable member of the symphonic orchestra, but the other members of its family are less familiar, although they are to be found in a wide range of music-making from Salvation Army meetings to esoteric avant-garde jazz. In his book, the first to deal with these instruments in detail, Cllifford Bevan lists the name of over 500 members of the family. He gives the acoustic background and traces the development of modern varieties from the early bugle- (or bullock-) horn through cornett, serpent, key bugle and ophicleide to the invention of the valve, the bass tuba and the saxhorns, flicorni, helicons, duplex and many others." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24076
- Title
- The Tuba Family
- Author
- Bevan, Clifford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 057110522X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571105229
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1978)
- Keywords
- 057110522X, Music
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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