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Mechanical pianos

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• Mechanical musical instruments
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• The Pianolist: A Guide for Pianola Players (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1907), by Gustav Kobbé (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Phonophotography in Folk Music: American Negro Songs in New Notation (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1928), by Milton Metfessel, contrib. by Carl E. Seashore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Theory and Practice of Pianoforte Building (New York: E. L. Bill, ca. 1906), by William Braid White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pianoforte: Its Origin, Progress, and Construction (with a selection of specimens of music; London: R. Cocks and Co., 1860), by Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Gibson Upright (1919), by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson (Gutenberg text)

• The Pianoforte: Its Origin, Progress, and Construction (with a selection of specimens of music; London: R. Cocks and Co., 1860), by Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fundamentals of Piano Practice (electronic edition, c2009), by Chuan C. Chang (PDF with commentary at pianopractice.org)
• The Aesthetics of Pianoforte-Playing (translated from the third German edition; New York: G. Schirmer, 1907), by Adolf Kullak, ed. by Hans Bischoff, trans. by Theodore Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe Über den Unterricht auf dem Pianoforte vom Anfange bis zur Ausbildung als Anhang zu Jeder Clavierschule (in German; Vienna: A. Diabelli, ca. 1839?), by Carl Czerny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Master Rules for Successful Piano Practice (Philadelphia: T. Presser Co., c1910), ed. by James Francis Cooke, contrib. by Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Amy Fay, John J. Hattstaedt, Emil Liebling, Louis G. Heinze, Perlee V. Jervis, Ernest R. Kroeger, Alexander Lambert, B. J. Lang, F. H. Shepard, William H. Sherwood, Marie von Unschuld, Charles E. Watt, Leopold Winkler, Francis L. York, J. De Zielinski, Robert Schumann, and Ernest Lent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Masters of the Keyboard (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1926), by Harriette Brower (page images at HathiTrust)
• Piano Mastery, Second Series: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers (first series; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1917), by Harriette Brower (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers (first series; New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1915), by Harriette Brower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Class Piano (Bloomington, IN and London: Indiana University Press, c1969), by Margaret Starr McLain (HTML at Indiana)

• Les Rythmes du Regard et la Dissociation des Doigts (in French; Paris: Lib. Fischbacher, 1906), by Marie Jaëll
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  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only