| Description |
3 volumes : illustration ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Includes reprint of the 1768 Berlin edition in German with English translation on facing pages. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography, Part 3, pages 141-147, and index. |
| Summary |
"Part I includes all of 'Volume One' of the original edition, except the Stoplists from Chapter 10. Part 2 of this edition includes all of 'Vollume 2' of the original; Part 3 includes all the Stoplists printed in the original Mmo and all the stoplists cited from other sources but not originally included, plus bibliography, index, etc."--P. 4 of Cover of Part 1. |
| Contents |
Part I. Preliminary matters concerning the art of the keyboard in general ; Concerning the nature, uses, methods and aids of mechanics ; Concerning the outer case of the organ ; Concerning the windchest ; Concerning the other internal components of the organ, with the exception of the pipes ;- Concerning the bellows and wind ducts ; Concerning the pipework in general ; Concerning the stops in general, and each one of them in particular ; Concerning the use of the stops ; Contracting for and building an organ ; Concerning the stoplist -- Part 2. Concerning the cost of an organ ; Concerning the exterior decoration of an organ ; Concerning the merits and faults of an organ that have not yet been mentioned ; Concerning organ temperament ; Concerning tuning organs ; Concerning the delivery and examination of organs ; Concerning the windgauge and other mechanical tools of [use to] an organist ; Concerning the maintenance and repair of organs ; Concerning the history or organs ; Concerning other instruments in general that an organist needs to be familiar with, and in particular Positivs ; Concerning Regals of all types ; Concerning the harpsichord, clavicytherium, spinet, instrument, arpichord and cembal d'amour ; Concerning the Violdigambenwerk, Claviergamba, Geigenwerk and Hurdy-gury ; Concerning the organon portatili, the water organ and Hanfling's Claviatur, as well as the Xylorganum ; Concerning lute harpsichords and carillons ; Concerning the clavichord and the Pedal-clavier ; Concerning other instruments, and the tuning of stringed [keyboard] instruments ; A discourse on certain curious matters here pertinent -- Part 3. Stoplists from Chapter 10 ; Supplement to Chapter 10 ; Another supplemnent to Chapter 10 / [J.F. Agricola] ; Stoplists from other sources cited but not printed in full in the 1768 Musica mechanica organoedi / [compiled and arranged by Q. Faulkner] ; Organbulders ; Dictionary ; Bibliography of publications cited in Musica mechanica organoedi / [Q. Faulkner]. |
| Local Note |
Westminster Choir College alumnus. |
| Subject |
Organ (Musical instrument) -- Construction -- Early works to 1800.
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Organ (Musical instrument) -- Construction. |
| Chronological Term |
Early works to 1800 |
| Subject |
Keyboard instruments -- Tuning.
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Keyboard instruments -- Tuning. |
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Musical temperament.
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Musical temperament. |
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Organ stops.
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Organ stops. |
| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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Directories.
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Directories.
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| Added Author |
Albrecht, Johann Lorenz, 1732-1773.
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Agricola, Johann Friedrich, 1720-1774.
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Faulkner, Quentin.
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| Added Title |
Musica mechanica organoedi. English & German
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Musical mechanics for the organist |
| ISBN |
9781609620134 |
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1609620135 |
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9781609620141 |
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1609620143 |
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9781609620158 |
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1609620151 |
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