Cracked Media

Cracked Media
Author: Caleb Kelly
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2009
Genre: Avant-garde (Music)
ISBN: 0262013142

"In Cracked Media, Caleb Kelly explores how the deliberate utilization of the normally undesirable (a crack, a break) has become the site of productive creation. Cracked media, Kelly writes, slides across disciplines, through music, sound, and noise. Cracked media encompasses everything from Cage's silences and indeterminacies, to Paik's often humorous tape works, to the cold and clean sounds of digital glitch in the work of Tone and Oval. Kelly offers a detailed historical account of these practices, arguing that they can be read as precursors to contemporary new media.".

Pianos

Pianos
Author: Eric Smith
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2024-09-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0718897846

A comprehensive guide to repairing, adjusting, and maintaining a piano, Pianos: Care and Restoration is suitable for pianists, amateurs, and would-be craftsmen. Eric Smith discusses the tools and materials required for restoration, and provides instructions for the repair and adjustment of the resonant parts, actions, and keyboard most often encountered. The book explains both upright and grand pianos in detail and includes explanations of toning piano hammers and purchasing and restoring older pianos. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs and including a glossary of terms, Pianos: Care and Restoration is an accessible guide which will enable anyone to improve the performance of their piano.

Cracked Piano

Cracked Piano
Author: Margo Taft Stever
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-04-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781933880709

Margo Taft Stever acutely observes and describes human society, past and present. From her compelling and beautiful descriptions of life inside a nineteenth-century private insane asylum to her colorful and often critical depiction of elements of contemporary society, her poems profoundly speak to us. They describe the delicate line between the certifiably insane and the irrationality of everyday life; they depict a society sometimes harsh and ugly, sometimes soft and loving, with stunning visual imagery. Stever speaks to us about our interactions with each other and with the natural world. Each segment tells its own story that captures us and makes us think.

Player Piano

Player Piano
Author: Arthur A. Reblitz
Publisher: Vestal Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1461664470

A treatise on how player pianos function, and how to get them back into top playing condition if they don't work. For beginners and experienced technicians alike.

Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding

Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding
Author: Arthur A. Reblitz
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2019-11-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1538114453

For over forty years, Arthur A. Reblitz’s Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding has been the gold-standard manual for piano technicians and hands-on hobbyists who want to rebuild or maintain pianos. Reblitz demystifies the daunting prospect of working on a piano as he guides readers through every detail of upright and grand piano mechanics and describes servicing and repairs with understandable, easy-to-follow instructions. The third edition of this invaluable handbook includes over 60 new and 300 remastered images of piano anatomy, tools, and techniques; consideration of ivory alternatives and the newest adhesives and lubricants; new material covering the art of tuning by ear and today’s sophisticated electronic tuning devices; new repair and rebuilding techniques; and a brand new glossary of terms. Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding provides piano technician and servicing programs, pianists, and amateur players and hobbyists around the world with an essential twenty-first-century guide to achieving peak performance and maximum longevity for their instruments.

Punch

Punch
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1887
Genre:
ISBN:

Punch

Punch
Author: Mark Lemon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1874
Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN:

Shorty Bill

Shorty Bill
Author: Sapper
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This novel focuses on the World War through Shorty Bill, the protagonist. Shorty Bill made his bow to the public in the novels "No Man's Land" and "The Human Touch."

The Complete Works of H. C. McNeile "Sapper"

The Complete Works of H. C. McNeile
Author: H. C. McNeile
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 6524
Release: 2023-12-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This unique eBook edition of H. C. McNeile's complete works has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Herman Cyril McNeile (1888-1937) commonly known as H. C. McNeile or Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenches during the First World War, he started writing short stories and getting them published in the Daily Mail. After the war McNeile left the army and continued writing, although he changed from war stories to thrillers. In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known creation. The character was based on McNeile himself, on his friend Gerard Fairlie and on English gentlemen generally. His stories are either directly about the war, or contain people whose lives have been shaped by it. His thrillers are a continuation of his war stories, with upper class Englishmen defending England from foreigners plotting against it. Contents: Novels: Mufti Bulldog Drummond The Black Gang Jim Maitland The Third Round The Final Count The Female of the Species Temple Tower Tiny Carteret The Island of Terror The Return of Bulldog Drummond Knock-Out Bulldog Drummond at Bay Challenge Short Story Collections: The Lieutenant and Others Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R.E. Men, Women and Guns No Man's Land The Human Touch The Man in Ratcatcher and Other Stories The Dinner Club Out of the Blue Jim Brent Word of Honour Shorty Bill The Saving Clause When Carruthers Laughed John Walters The Finger of Fate Ronald Standish The Creaking Door The Missing Chauffeur The Haunted Rectory A Matter of Tar The House with the Kennels The Third Message Mystery of the Slip Coach The Second Dog The Men in Yellow The Men with Samples The Empty House The Tidal River...