Paper Musical Instruments

A fine quality antique music box made by George Bendon of Geneva, Switzerland in c. 1880. The musical movement features 6 engraved bells struck by a delightful array of figurative ...

The Rolling Stones, ACCORDING TO THE ROLLING STONES. California: Chronicle Books, 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Large Hardcover Book. 12 X 9 X 1.6 inches; 360 pages. Printed signatures of all of them, great collectible Rock N Roll hardcover coffee table book. Title: According to the Rolling Stones Publisher: Music Sales Publication Date: 2003 Binding: Hardcover Synopsis: Here's the inside story: the history of the Rolling Stones - according to the Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood have come together for this remarkable project. They've also opened up their personal and band archives to include many rare and intimate images that are interwoven with the text. The book gets right to the heart of what makes the Stones the Stones, as musicians, songwriters, performers, and colleagues. They describe how their music has evolved and how it has affected and changed their lives. They also reveal, with refreshing frankness, how their own lives have helped, or hindered, their music-making. The Stones' own words - insightful, funny, poignant, surprising, and above all, completely authentic - are complemented by insider reflections from key players in their story over the years such as Ahmet Ertegun, David Bailey, and Cameron Crowe. A comprehensive reference section including discography, and chronology, studded with the Stones' personal comments on the music and memories, completes this must-read volume. Here, in their own words and images, is the life and work of a band which has played the soundtrack of our lives for the last forty years. According to the Rolling Stones hews closely to the formula set in 2000 by the publication of The Beatles Anthology. Like its predecessor, it's a beautiful coffee table tome with hundreds of gorgeous photographs, from childhood pics of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to concert shots from the 40 Licks Tour. The text is taken from recent interviews with the band's four latter-day members (Mick, Keith, Charlie Watts, and Ronnie Wood). Notably missing, however, is any contribution from former bassist Bill Wyman, who left the band in the early '90s and published his own history of the band in 2002, Rolling with the Stones. Where Wyman is an obsessive collector and diarist, the other Stones are more impressionistic in their memories, lending an approach to history as casual as the band’s concerts are rigorously planned and staged. The first half of the Stones story has plenty of high drama (tours through the segregated South, Brian Jones's death, Altamont), which no one seems eager to reflect on deeply. (Charlie is the only one even to mention Altamont.) The more recent years has seen a long string of ever-more-successful tours and ever-less-popular albums, interrupted only by Mick and Keith’s near divorce in the '80s, plus rehab stints for Charlie and Ronnie. While The Beatles Anthology offered the surviving members' interpretations of their experiences at a distance of 30 or more years, the Stones are still living the tale they're trying to tell--and they aren’t always the most self-aware narrators. Or generous: Wyman's three-decade tenure is given short shrift, but the book finds enough space for some unnecessary digs (Wyman has "tiny hands," we're told, and an "almost effeminate" style of playing). To flesh out the band members' own recollections, the book also contains 13 essays from music-industry friends (Ahmet Ertegun, Marshall Chess), collaborators (Don Was), famous fans (Sheryl Crow...

“The American Songbook: The Singers, Songwriters and The Songs” by Ken Bloom, book Hardcover table book for music lover collector. Synopsis: Presented in the striking format of Ken Bloom’s successful Broadway Musicals, this rich visual history of popular song covers all of the prominent figures behind the music, in front of the bandstand, and on top of the piano. “The Singers” includes Louis Armstrong, Tony Bennett, Barbara Cook, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney...

Antique wooden toy upright piano by Bliss with lithograph print featuring an orchestra of cherubs. Eight working wooden keys that strike on a minia...

Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespea...

Album cover by Andy Warhol for the Rolling Stones from 1977. The album cover was made by the famous American artist for the rock band The Rolling St...

Ariadne on Naxos. Opera in a procession by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Music by TRichard Strauss. Op. 60. To play after the burger as a nobleman of the Molière. Arrangement of Otto Singe...

L.Van Beethoven sonaten pianoforte solo louis koehler, leipzig, C.F.Peters.

Presented is a custom-built collage featuring elements relating to jazz legends Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. The featured items include a Louis Armstrong signed publicity pho...

A beautiful Japanese antique hand-brushed "Tea ceremony" scroll of a Shinto Suzu bell scroll worthy of your favorite room Hand painting on paper in simple soft pleasing colors, signed. Inscription: Suzu Bell box...

Antique roller organ features walnut case with ebonized banding and seated on ball feet, 19th century Measures - 11" h x 15" w @ w, 10&...

This fine antique Organina from France is in working condition and was crafted, circa 1895. The musical instrument features 15 punched cards; the cards include Polka, Waltz, Hymn, Ma...