Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Metamorphous Press, Incorporated, 1985
ISBN 10: 0943920221 ISBN 13: 9780943920221
Da: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. Likely 1st Edtion. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Metamorphous Press, Incorporated, 1985
ISBN 10: 0943920221 ISBN 13: 9780943920221
Da: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. Likely 1st Edtion. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Da: David's Books, Ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.
Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 0.47 x 8.5 x 5.59 Inches; 78 pages; Signed by Author; Signed by Author.
Da: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Metamorphous Press, Lake Oswego, Oregon, 1985
ISBN 10: 0943920221 ISBN 13: 9780943920221
Da: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Hard Back. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Bienvenu, Sarah (illustratore). 103 Pages. Spine foot has two very small spots of wear. Black cloth withsilver spine lettering and decoration. Dust jacket has some edge wear shelf scuffs and small chipping. Dramatis Personae: The SeventhDragon referred to as he, The Tuner referred to as she, and The PJiano referred to as it. Ostensibly a book about piano tuning.but in an effort understand the unfamiliar concepts of how a piano gets tuned, the reader inevitably examines the deepeer riddles of life. Despite it all, we continue to think we are hearing something beautiful, and so we are. Our ears, our hearts, forgive. Music could even be defined by what we happen to be forgiving at a particular time in history. Winner of the 1986 Western States Book Award for Creative Non0Fiction. In Japanese folklore the Seventh Dragon is the listener and remains invisible to us. As if to suggest the the riddles of life are also invisible. Therin lies the challenge of the SeventhDragon -- to reconcile the riddles of invisible meanding -- to resolve or accept the riddle of equal temperament in life as well as in the tuning of the piano. If you though you would never want to know how a piano is tuned you may change your mind after reading this book. Contents: First Interval, Second Interval Tuner's Monologue, Diveertimento on the Piano Keyboard, Third Interval Tuner's Monologue, fourth Interval Tuner's Monologue, Divertimento on Numbers, Fifth Interval Tuner's Monologue, Sixth Interval Tuner's Monologue, Seveneth Interval Tuner's Monologue, Eight Interval Tuner's Monologue, Ninth Interval, and Postlude. Appendix A ATemperament Salad and Appendix B Table of Pure Intervals. Also includes Suggested Reading.
Da: The Oregon Room - Well described books!, Phoenix, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Signed by author on endpaper, 1985 1st edition, Fine/Fine-minus DJ in Mylar, clean & tight, dustjacket in new Mylar has only very light shelfwear, clean unmarked text, not a remainder, square corners, a very nice copy.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Metamorphous Pr, Lake Oswego, Oregon, 1986
ISBN 10: 0943920221 ISBN 13: 9780943920221
Da: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.
Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. BIENVENU, Sarah (illustratore). Presume First Edition. Black cloth binding with silver print on spine. Has been read but still tight, sound and except Author's signature, unmarked. Winner of the Western States Book Award for Creative Non-Fiction. 104 pages including two Appendixes and a bibliography. . Appendix A is discussion of temperament/salad. Appendix B is discussion of Musical Intervals. Dust jacket in mylar. Small closed tear on rear cover near spine. Light shelfwear. Signed by Author(s).
Hard Cover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Small tear back cover and front cover, scuffed cover. A veteran piano tuner presents a non-technical, literary view of the quixotic tuning system used on keyboard instruments for hundreds of years. Winner of the Western States Book Award for creative non-fiction in 1986, newly updated with illustrations, index, bibliography. Signed by Author.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Metamorphous Press, Lake Oswego, Oregon, 1985
ISBN 10: 0943920221 ISBN 13: 9780943920221
Da: BIAbooks, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Amanda Faulkner (illustratore). First Edition. Excellent book with a single flaw i.e. a closed tear on back top of DJ near spine. Austensibly this book is about piano tuning, but is it? In the effort to understand the unfamiliar concepts of piano tuning, the reader inevitably examines the deeper riddles of life. Winner of the 1986 Western States Book Award For Creative Non-Fiction. SIGNED.
hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR- INTERIOR IS VERY GOOD- BRIGHT & CLEAN. AN EXCELLENT COPY OF AN EXCELLENT BOOK.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Metamorphous Press, Lake Oswego, 1985
ISBN 10: 0943920221 ISBN 13: 9780943920221
Da: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8.50 X 5.59 X 0.47 inches; 104 pages.
hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!