This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... which he travelled. His journal, preserved in the Vatican, mentions il carillon a number of times. The one at Delft he calls il piu armonioso di tutti questi paesi, and of that at Utrecht he writes: There is a carillon which is played by hand at certain hours of the day, the playing lasting each time a good ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... which he travelled. His journal, preserved in the Vatican, mentions il carillon a number of times. The one at Delft he calls il piu armonioso di tutti questi paesi, and of that at Utrecht he writes: There is a carillon which is played by hand at certain hours of the day, the playing lasting each time a good half hour or three-quarters of an hour. The person who plays strikes the various bells in such a way as to produce musical chords and makes various melodies which are quite pleasing. XVI Living in the time of Giorgio Giorgi, and also a traveller in Holland, was the diarist John Evelyn. The tower music he heard moved him to seek out its source and the words in which he set down his discovery are interesting as the first considerable mention of the carillon by an Englishman. In Amsterdam in 1641, he wrote: The turrets, or steeples, are adorned after a particular manner and invention; the chimes of bells are so rarely managed, that being curious to know whether the motion was from any engine, I went up to that of St. Nicholas, where I found one who played all sorts of compositions from the tablature before him, as if he had fingered an organ; for so were the hammers fastened with wires to several keys put into a frame twenty feet below the bells, upon which, by help of a wooden instrument, not much unlike a weaver's shuttle, that guarded his hand, he struck on the keys and played to admiration. All this while, through the clattering of the wires, din of the too nearly sounding bells, and noise that his wooden gloves made, the confusion was so great that it was impossible for the musician, or any that stood near him, to hear anything himself; yet, to those at a distance, and especially in the streets, the harmony and the time were the most exact...
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Very Good. Limited edition. Very good with some soiling to the boards and spine label, spine is a little darkened, lacking a dustwrapper. One of 200 copies Signed by the author.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Octavo. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards, applied printed paper label. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a chip near the bottom of the spine and some spine toning. One of 200 Signed copies sold only for the Belgian and French Relief Funds. Curiously the notice about the Relief Funds appears only on the jacket. Very scarce in jacket.
