THE World’s Earliest Music: TRACED TO ITS BEGINNINGS IN ANCIENT LANDS,
Reading edition
BY COLLECTED EVIDENCE OF RELICS, RECORDS, HISTORY, AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS FROM GREECE, ETRURIA, EGYPT, CHINA, THROUGH ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA, TO THE PRIMITIVE HOME, THE LAND OF AKKAD AND SUMER.
BY Hermann Smith. Author of “The Making of Sound in the Organ,” “Instruments of the Orchestra from Old to New,” “Modern Organ Tuning,” etc.
Sixty-five Illustrations.
London: WILLIAM REEVES, 83, CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C.
Preparing for Publication.
THE MAKING OF SOUND IN THE ORGAN. An Analysis of the work of the Air in the Speaking Organ Pipe of the various constant types, with an Exposition of the Laws of Time-distance and of the Tone of the Air, etc., etc., THE THEORY OF THE AIR-REED ELUCIDATED.
Also INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA, THEIR ORIGIN, HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND COMPARATIVE ACOUSTICS, etc.