"Barrel Organ - The Mechanical Organ and it's Repair -Ord-Hume - 570 pgs. 1978

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This is a big 566 page book titled "Barrel Organ" - The Story of the Mechanical Organ and it's Repair by Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume. It was published in 1978
This book has many chapters, diagrams, charts, and photos related to repair, maintenance, restoration and operation of the long ago elaborate early .Barrel Organs. "Tracing the barrel organ to its' very primitive origins, the author writes with an eloquence and appreciation of this instruments through its' long evolution to the modern electronic console. But he is especially concerned here with the preservation and and repair of the grand Victorian organs with the glorious casework, pilisters, fretted shades,and pipe towers.Street organs, pneumatic player organs ... are also a subject here. This is a large heavy book with 115 plates.