The Silent Orchestra: Musical Instruments from Islamic Lands czech republic with just the odd light

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Crown 8vo (185 mm)

blocked in gilt with the figures of Pan and the book's animal characters

Original bright red cloth with the slightly rubbed dust jacket

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The Silent Orchestra: Musical Instruments from Islamic Lands czech republic with just the odd lightLondon: Oliver Hoare, 2005. Original brown cloth in the pictorial dust jacket. Folio. 118 pages. Lavishly illustrated with full page colour photographs of 165 musical instruments from mainly Turkey and the Balkans though also Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan and other parts of middle Asia. Some of the instruments featured include the kermanche, the oud, the levta, the tanbur, the dombra, the rebab, and the sitar. Photographs printed on high quality, coated