Books on Mechanical Musical Instruments
These are some classic books about our hobby published by Vestal Press:
"Player Piano Treasury", by Harvey N. Roehl, Vestal Press, 1961
"Rebuilding the Player Piano", by Larry Givens, Vestal Press, 1963
"Put Another Nickel In", by Q. David Bowers, Vestal Press, 1966
"Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments", by Q. David Bowers, Vestal Press, 1972, ISBN 0-911572-08-2
"Piano Servicing, Tuning and Rebuilding", by Arthur A. Reblitz, Vestal Press, 1976, ISBN 1-879511-02-9
"Player Piano Servicing and Rebuilding", by Arthur Reblitz, Vestal Press, ISBN 0-911572-41-4
"The American Reed Organ", by Robert F. Gellerman, Vestal Press
"Treasures of Mechanical Music", by Arthur A. Reblitz and Q. David Bowers, Vestal Press, 1981, ISBN 0-911572-20-1
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Current price and availability unknown. ("Treasures..." is long out-of-print and quite scarce used.)
"The Orchestrion Builder's Manual and Pneumatics Handbook", by Craig Brougher, available from him at 3500 Claremont Ave., Independence, MO 64052.
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