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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 159. Original publishers burgundy cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Demonstrates how to make a banjo, regimental snare drum, tambourine, Appalachian dulcimer, Hardanger fiddle, and Dolemtsch recorder. Illustrated in black and white throughout. ISBN: 087690293X Fine in fine dust jacket.
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Good. Size: 20x20x20; Good condition. Dust jacket is stained and has an old library sticker on the spine that has sharpie markings covering it. Dust jacket has an old mylar attached. Dust jacket is glued to the inside of front and back cover. Cover page contains an old library stamp. Light staining on some inside pages. Text is free of markings or highlights. Well-bound book. Pictures upon request.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Hbk, 159pp, profusely illustr throughout photos, drawings and schematics, dj has a small closed tear upper front, otherwise fine, unclipped and now in protective sleeve, internally and excellent, clean, tight and unmarked copy.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. This book is in Very Good Condition. The Binding is Tight and Straight and the Text is clean. There are no stains, tears, bumps or creases. The Dust Jacket is in Good Condition. It has a crease on the inner front... Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 159 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. The complete title of this book is "Making Musical Instruments: Banjor, Snare Drum, Dulcimer, Tamborine. Hardanger Fiddle, The Dolmetsch FIddle." It is illustrated with black-and-white photographs, drawings and full color photographs It was published simultaneously in Canada by Clarke, Irwin & Company, Ltd, Toronto and Vancouver
I read this book years ago and got a good deal out of it. It is not as detailed as Sloane's other books that tend to deal in detail with making single instruments, but, for someone who has made other instruments, this shouldn't be too much of a problem. I bought the book because of the rather more detailed instructions it has for making banjo and drum shells out of strips of veneer. On the other hand, for anyone wanting to make a banjo with no prior experience in lutherie, I think the overall instructions might be rather sketchy. Sloane does give perfectly good instructions for making regimental drums, tambourines and (flat topped) mountain dulcimers, and reasonable instructions for building a Hardanger fiddle (but I know of no other book that has instructions for one of those). The book claims to show how to make an alto recorder, but, in reality, it just shows the dimensions and gives little more than a photo essay on how the process is completed in the Dolmetsch studios -- interesting but of little use to someone without all the specialised tools. I know, from personal experience, that cutting the fipple end (for example) is a far from trivial job.