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ENGRAMELLE, Marie-Dominique-Joseph. La Tonotechnie ou l'art de noter les cylindres et tout ce qui est susceptible de Notage dans les Instrumens de Concerts méchaniques. Paris: P.M. Delaguette, 1775.
8° (203 x 124mm.). Half-title. Engraved frontispiece (neat repair to outer upper blank corner), 1 headpiece, 2 folding plates, 3 folding sheets of music, 8 pp. folding tipped-in letterpress and woodcut tables, 2 woodcut illustrations, extra-illustrated with a single folding leaf pasted onto the verso of the privilege leaf [I]nstructions pour se servir des Sérinettes. (Repairs to half title, C2 and margins of 4 other leaves.) Later morocco-backed boards (upper joint a little tender). Provenance: Verg[ ? ] ainé (signature, manuscript index and various annotations of a technical nature).
A description of a numbered dial invented by the author, and its use in notating the studded barrels of mechanical musical instruments. The single page of instructions concerning the Sérinette, or Bird-Organ, ends with the advice to Gardez la Sérinette du trop sec, du trop humide, des enfants, des étourdis, & elle ira toujours bien.
8° (203 x 124mm.). Half-title. Engraved frontispiece (neat repair to outer upper blank corner), 1 headpiece, 2 folding plates, 3 folding sheets of music, 8 pp. folding tipped-in letterpress and woodcut tables, 2 woodcut illustrations, extra-illustrated with a single folding leaf pasted onto the verso of the privilege leaf [I]nstructions pour se servir des Sérinettes. (Repairs to half title, C2 and margins of 4 other leaves.) Later morocco-backed boards (upper joint a little tender). Provenance: Verg[ ? ] ainé (signature, manuscript index and various annotations of a technical nature).
A description of a numbered dial invented by the author, and its use in notating the studded barrels of mechanical musical instruments. The single page of instructions concerning the Sérinette, or Bird-Organ, ends with the advice to Gardez la Sérinette du trop sec, du trop humide, des enfants, des étourdis, & elle ira toujours bien.