Giraffes, black dragons, and other pianos a technological history from Cristofori to the modern concert grand / [electronic resource] :
Edwin M. Good.
- 2nd ed.
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2001.
- xxv, 369 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-347) and index.
Illustrations -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Author's note -- Technology and the piano -- earliest pianos -- classic piano -- Beethoven and the growing grand -- Pianos from early-nineteenth-century homes -- Iron enters the piano -- french take the lead -- radical americans -- europeans imitate - or do not -- Some odds and dead ends -- modern piano -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. [ch.] 1. [ch.] 2. The [ch.] 3. The [ch.] 4. [ch.] 5. [ch.] 6. [ch.] 7. The [ch.] 8. The [ch.] 9. The [ch.] 10. [ch.] 11. The