Preston and Son, musical instrument makers, music-printers, publishers, and dealers in second-hand musical instruments, at their wholesale warehouses, No. 97, Strand, and Exeter 'change, London, manufacture and sell the following, with every other article in the music branch, wholesale, retail, and for exportation: Chamber organs Barrel organs Harpsichords spinnets Piano-fortes Grand piano-fortes Portable grand piano-fortes Guitairs of all prices Patent piano-forte guittars Violins of all prices Kits and small violins Tenor violins Violoncellos Viol de gambos double basses French horns Hunting horns Trumpets Kettle drums Dulcimers ¡olian and bath harps Bassoons Tenoroons, or vauxhamanes Bagpipes, Scotch or Irish German flutes, ivory, ebony, cocoa, and box, tipped or plain Patent German flutes Hautboys, tipped or plain Clarionets, ditto English flutes, ditto, all sizes Bird flutes, ditto Flagelets, ditto Fifes of all sorts, Pipes and tabors Sticcado pastorales, or metallic armonicas pitch pipes, all sizes Steel forks for tuning harpsichords, spinnets, violins, guittars, &c. Harpsichord and spinnet hammers Crow and raven quills Desks for harpsichords New-invented portable music-desks Rosin boxex, wood or ivory Mutes, brass, box, or ivory Mouth-pieces for French horns or trumpets, brass or ivory Mouth-pieces for German flutes Pens to rule music paper Ruled books of all sizes Ruled paper of all sorts Bows for violins, kits, tenors, violoncellos, and viol de gambos Bridges for violins, kits, tenors, violoncellos, viol de gambos, guittars, &c. Pags or pins, and tail-pieces for do. Hinges and locks for harpsichords and spinnets Reeds for bassoons, hautboys, clarionets, vauxhumanes, and bagpipes Cases for reeds ------ for flutes and hautboys ------ for violins, violoncellos and guittars also import the best Italian and Roman strings for violins, tenors, mandolines, violoncellos, double basses, welch harps, &c. German wire for harpsichords, spinnets, piano-fortes, guittars, &c. Italian catgut and wire strings, silvered in the compleatest manner, and well proportioned for violins, basses, guittars, and piano-fortes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preston and Son (Musical instrument makers : London, England)

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book catalogs--Early works to 1800.

Book catalogs.

Physical Description:

11 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 2⁰

Place of Publication:

[London] : [publisher not identified], [1790]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Drop-head title.

Horizontal chain lines.

Includes: '1790. An additional catalogue of instrumental and vocal music, .. '.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T120899.

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