While we're on historical subjects (Conrad's posting), this publication should be interesting to anyone working on really old pianos: The American Musical Instrument Society Announces a New Publication The New-York Book of Prices for Manufacturing Piano-fortes by The Society of Journeymen Piano-forte Makers Foreword by Henry Z. Steinway Introduction by Laurence Libin "The 1835 Price Book of New York's Society of Journeymen Pianoforte Makers, known from only one surviving copy, gives uniquely detailed insight to the craft . . . . To put the Price Book into a broad social perspective, Laurence Libin provides a panoramic but sharply-focused snapshot of life, work, and culture in New York about 1835." >From the Foreword by Henry Z. Steinway Reproduced from the original 112-page print and with 60 additional pages, the New-York Book of Prices specifies hundreds of steps in piano construction, giving the journeymen's price for each operation. Plus, twenty-one detailed tables cover such essential procedures as veneering, moulding, and installing hardware, and six plates outline action parts, pedal lyres, and other components. Special features include appendices listing New York musicians and musical instrument makers from Longworth's American Almanac for 1835, and Lynn Edwards Butler's translation of the Well-Meant Advice . . . to Germans who intend to immigrate to the United States, a rare cautionary booklet issued in 1833 by the German Society of New York. With index and errata, the New-York Book of Prices will interest labor and music historians, woodworkers, piano technicians, instrument makers and furniture collectors, and everyone interested in antebellum American culture. ISBN 0-913499-31-5 (paperbound) ___________________________________________________________________________________________ I WISH TO ORDER THE NEW-YORK BOOK OF PRICES Name_____________________________________________________________________________ Address___________________________________________________________________________ City______________________________________________State_______________Zip__________ Daytime Phone______________________E-mail________________________________________ I enclose a check for $25.00 per copy (includes shipment within USA) payable to American Musical Instrument Society, Inc. Or charge my ___ Visa ___ Master Card Name on card_______________________________________________ Expiry date___________________ Card number____________________________________ Three-digit security code on back_________ Mail to: AMIS, c/o Guild Associates, 389 Main Street, Suite 202, Malden, MA 02148 (781-397-8870; amis at guildassoc.com) www.amis.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091130/0b1ef5b4/attachment.htm>
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