YOUR ONE STOP CLOCK SHOP

BK-229

A leading authority and consultant to museums around the world, the author is also a collector, restorer and historian. 318 Black and White photos, professional diagrams, music and pinning charts. Chapters include: Workshop requirements and skills; Restoring cylinder musical boxes; Repinning cylinders; Restoring disc-playing musical boxes; Miniature musical movements and singing birds; Types of movements; Restoring Carillon movements, small pipe organs and dulcimer mechanisms; Restoring cases; Documentation, display, demonstration and conservation; Mechanical musical instruments and their components; Musical theory and principles of tuning; Music for the musical clock; Supplies of restoration materials; Disaster Survival and salvage action. Information on disc repair, recover bellows, make organ pipes, bell care, restringing dulcimers and so much more. A must for lovers of musical boxes and clocks.
368 pages. 7x10"
Hardcover