Ein umfangreiches italienisches Buch über Musikmaschinen der Renaissance und des Barocks, das jedoch in englisch verfaßt wurde. Bei Academia.edu kann man eine 27 seitige Information des Autors mit Inhaltsverzeichnis des Buches und Textbeispielen einsehen. Ich sprach den Kunstbuchhändler Walther König in Köln daraufhin an und glaube, daß er es bald in seinem Sortiment haben wird.
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„Hard bound, pp. 543 , 290 illus. (106 in colour) Musical scores, Euro 50. To order: www.gangemieditore.it Tel. +39 06.6872774 . The volume may be ideally divided into two parts. The first deals with water organs, including the musical compositions with which they were provided, and several automata of Heronian design, such as the androids of the Farnese court, the Fountain of the Owl, and the myth of Faun and the nymph Echo. The various hydraulic systems for providing the pressurised air needed for their operation, also adopted in forges and melting furnaces, are analysed from a technical point of view. In the second part are illustrated ingenia of various kind, not always hydraulically operated, like: organs and harpsichords activated by sunlight or counterweights , the automata that once figured in the Roman museum of Athanasius Kircher, those realized by the missionaries for the Imperial Court of Peking, several reconstructions of the mythical Vulcan’s forge, Michele Todini’s famous „Galleria armonica“, and a special type of hydraulis made in Naples in the Late Renaissance.“