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FS: New Restoration Book by Ord-Hume
By Nancy Fratti

Hi!

HOT OFF THE PRESS......JUST IN!!!

The only book currently in print that deals with RESTORATION
TECHNIQUES in Musical Boxes & Clocks!

"RESTORING MUSICAL BOXES & MUSICAL CLOCKS"
                                by
             Arthur W. J. G.  Ord-Hume

11 Chapters cover such topics as:

    Workshop requirements & skills
    Restoring Cylinder Musical Boxes
    Repinning Musical Box Cylinders
    Restoring Disc Playing Musical Boxes
    Miniature Musical Movements & Singing Birds
    Types of  Musical Movements Found in Clocks
    Restoring the Carillon Movement in Clocks
    Restoring Small Pipe Organs in Clocks
    Restoring the Dulcimer Mechanism in Clocks
    Restoring the Cases of Musical Boxes & Clocks
    Documentation, Display, Demonstration & Conservation

5 Appendices include:

    Glossary
            Mechanical Musical Instruments & their Components
            Musical Theory
    Music for the Musical Clock
    Musical Theory and the Principles of TUNING
    SUPPLIERS of Restoration Materials
    Disaster Survival - Emergency & Salvage Action

All this, 368 pages,  in HARDCOVER for only $59.95 + $4.50 postage.

Send check or credit card # and exp. date to:

    Nancy Fratti
    PO BOX 210
    Whitehall, NY 12887-0210

e-mail:  MusicBoxLady@Juno.com
Fax:  518-181-9800
phone; 518-282-9770



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