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'LES INSTRUMENTS A SOUFFLE HUMAIN' by Constant Pierre
£75.00
INSTRUMENT MAKING AT THE UNIVERSAL
EXHIBITION OF 1889
LES INSTRUMENTS A SOUFFLE HUMAIN
A MUSICIAN'S NOTES ON NEW AND IMPROVED WIND
INSTRUMENTS
by Constant Pierre
Decorated with engravings and music examples
316 pages
Librairie de l'art indépendant
Paris 1890
The 1889 World Fair in Paris celebrated, for 6 months, the 100th anniversary
of the French Revolution as well as the strength of France's national industry,
under the auspices of the Republic and its colonial empire. The Eiffel Tower
was built for this World Fair, at which the newly-invented phonograph
was exhibited and demonstrated.
This very rare book, in French, by Constant Pierre, includes a remarkably
detailed description (pp 193-212) of Henri Chaussier's Cor Omnitonique, the
horn for which Saint-Saëns wrote his 'Morceau de Concert', Op.94, in 1887.
Halstead Music acts as an agent only,
accepting no responsibility as a principal.