"This book offers full history of piano technology, earliest models to 1910. Types, makers, components, mechanisms, musical aspects. 300 illustrations". (Source: Editor's Note: Pianos and their makers: a comprehensive history of the development of the piano from the monochord to the concert grand player piano, Alfred Dolge, 1972. Covina Pub. Co; 1st edition (1911).

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