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Last updated: March 5, 2008
LITTLE WIZARD ENTERPRISES
P.O. Box 9472
San Bernardino, CA 92427
Phone: 909-886-3101; Email:jan@flutenet.com
Important information about HOW TO ORDER FROM LITTLE WIZARD ENTERPRISES
Here's what is currently available and ready to ship - Little Wizard's Short list:
(Note: we're also offering a Special Package - when the Bigio book AND the James book are bought together, we can give you a bit of savings over buying each individually! You'll find the details about this in the listings below...)
Little Wizard Enterprises provides consignment sales of selected, hard-to-find books and cassettes of interest to flutists and flute teachers (and perhaps even to "those who love them"). We currently have the following items available and ready to ship! We are not equipped to handle charge cards, but will be happy to receive your check or money order. You might wish to give us a call to make sure we haven't run out of what you wish to order. And, if you live in California, please remember the sales tax!
IF YOU'RE REALLY IN A HURRY: We now have a way of receiving your payment via PayPal (I have a personal account with them which we CAN use if you wish - as I understand it, it won't accept your credit card, but it might still be a good way for us to receive your payment quickly - and then we can send your order out the next day! Just let me know your wishes - email: jan@flutenet.com, be sure to include something to the effect of "Little Wizard Order and Paypal??" in your subject line so I'll recognize that your note is NOT sneaky spam - and we'll coordinate the details!....)
Now, here's our current inventory -- Enjoy your browse, and please let us know if we can help with any questions (jansp@flutenet.com)...
Hard cover book: GREAT FLUTE MAKERS OF FRANCE - The Lot and Godfroy Families, 1650 - 1900, by Tula Giannini, with an introduction by Laurence Libin
This comprehensive corpus of new information documenting the history and work of the two most important families of French flute makers. This profusely illustrated book, based on primary source material, makes a major contribution to our understanding of the social and musical contexts in which the French woodwind instrument makers worked. 245 pages.
NOTE: New shipment just received! Four copies are currently available and ready to send.
$89.00 (US Funds), shipping and handling included. Canadian orders, and/or for shipping via First Class mail, add $8.00. CA residents, please add $7.12
sales tax.
Book -Readings in the History of the Flute, monograph, essays, reviews, letters and advertisements from nineteenth-century London. Selected and edited with an introduction by Robert Bigio, 2006. Paperback. 360pp. 33 b&w illustrations.
The following are included:
Charles Nicholson: "A Word or Two" to Mr. W. N. James (1829).
W. N. James: Mr. James's Answer to Mr. Nicholson (1829).
Miscellany (1836-1857): Consisting of letters and advertisements from The Times and Musical World.
William Annand: A Few Words on the Flute (1843).
Cornelius Ward: The Flute Explained (1844).
John Clinton: A Treatise Upon the Mechanism and General Principles of the Flute (1851).
Richard Carte: Sketch of the Successive Improvements Made in the Flute (1851).
John Clinton: A Few Practical Hints to Flute Players (1855).
Thomas Clotworthy Skeffington: "The Flute" in its Transition State (1862).
Theobald Böhm:An Essay on the Construction of Flutes (1847, published 1882)
$64.00 (US Funds); shipping and handling included. Canadian orders and/or for shipping via First Class mail, add $10 US. CA residents please add $5.12 sales tax.
(NOTE: New shipment received! Three copies ready to send.)
Buy *both* the Bigio book of "Readings..." AND the "Word or Two" by W.N. James (only a selection of which is included in the Bigio book, so now you can also read the rest of what James had to say!) - when buying both, and by sending them out together in the same shipment, we can pass along a bit of savings for you there - the combined special rate for both books is $84.00 (that's a $10 savings - and it's something we're happy to do!) For Priority mail shipping or to Canada, please add $10; CA residents, please add $6.72 sales tax.
How To Order this/these item(s)...
Hard cover Book: A Word or Two on the Flute - by W. N. James
This wonderful hard cover book gives a personal & idiosyncratic view of flutes, flute players & their playing... This is a facsimile of the First Edition of 1826 with a new introduction A Word or Two on W. N. James, by Stephen Preston. ....."In these notices Mr. James appears to exercise strict impartiality, knowledge and a discriminate judgment" (From an original review in the Quarterly Musical Magazine). ....."And it is through these notices that we can view the flute scene of that period"... "left a fascinating and enduring little monument to the flute players of the first quarter of the 19th century.." (...Stephen Preston, from his Introduction.)
$30.00 (US Funds); shipping and handling included. Canadian orders and/or for shipping via First Class mail, add $7.00 US. CA residents please add $2.40 sales tax.
(NOTE: Currently two copies of this wonderful little book are available in the drawer here...)
Buy *both* the Bigio book of "Readings..." AND the "Word or Two" by W.N. James (only a selection of which is included in the Bigio book, so now you can also read the rest of what James had to say!) - when buying both, and by sending them out together in the same shipment, we can pass along a bit of savings for you there - the combined special rate for both books is $84.00 (that's a $10 savings - and it's something we're happy to do!) For Priority mail shipping or to Canada, please add $10; CA residents please add $6.72 sales tax.
Hardback book: The NEW Langwill Index -- A Dictionary of Musical Wind-
Instrument Makers and Inventors... by William Waterhouse.
'This book has been conceived as
an entirely new work rather than a revision of his sixth edition' (author's preface). This completely new edition of the
late Lyndesay Langwill's Index has been keenly awaited ever since the latter went out of print a decade ago. In scope
and detail it bears little comparison with its predecessor, which it now supersedes and replaces as the standard work in
its field. As the most comprehensive work on wind-instrument makers in any language, it is a major reference tool for
the ever-increasing number of collectors and researchers. Entries for nearly 6,500 makers and inventors active until
the middle of this century; nearly 400 reproductions of makers' marks distributed throughout the text; and much more
included in the 560 pages.
Stock status: currently three left in the drawer and ready to send.
$148. (US Funds); shipping and handling included in the US; CA residents please add
$11.84 sales tax; Canadian or overseas orders, or for priority mail postage, please add $14.00 (this is a big, heavy book).
Paperback book: Moyse's "How I can stay in shape...."
Published by Moyse himself, in 1974, this work is entirely in his own manuscript, in French, and is an original classic. There is included a copy of the eight page english translation by Paul M. Douglas. The book itself measures 13 3/4 inch by 10 3/4 inch, and includes both text and musical exercises. We have only 2 copies left, at this point - no more will be available.
$36.00 (US Funds); shipping and handling included in the US; CA residents please add
$2.88 sales tax; Canadian or overseas orders, or for priority mail postage, please add $9.00.
OK - Here's the story: All of the following CD's listed here are brand new -- and in keeping with our mission, are available through Little Wizard Enterprises by special arrangement. Consequently, we've worked hard to be able to make them available to you at the best possible price! (There are some remarkable bargains here for those persistent enough to deal with the small print...!)
Also, you need to know that there may only be one or two of each CD listed here -- so if you see something you like, act quickly (you may even want to call or email ahead to check on whether the ones you are looking for are still available)! Also, feel free to call or email if you'd like more details of any kind about these CD's.
ALAN WEISS-- with Jamie Hersch, horn, Adrian Jojatu, bassoon, and Ronald Feldman conductin the George Ensen Phiharmonic Chamber Orchestra -- Mozart...
Mozart -- Concerto for Flute, K314, Concerto for Horn, K495, Concerto for Bassoon, K191, and Symphony No 29, K201. Total time: 77'43".
ROBERT COLE, with family and friends - in Cole Cuts
COLE CUTS -- A very special CD, this includes three generations of the Cole family: Robert Cole, Gordon Cole, Khristine Cole and Nathan Cole. Includes Flute Trio Opus 13, #3, by Friedrick Kuhlau; Sonata in A minor S. 1003 by J.S. Bach (violin); A Little Sonata for Three Flutes by Paul Brink; In Spring, Opus 138 by Sergei Vasilenko, (Mvmt 3 - Through the Desert); and perhaps most specially, Eight Miniatures for Flute and Percussion, by Louis Gesensway, featuring Robert Cole with Fred D. Hinger on tympani and Michael Bookspan, percussion. This very special CD is available is available at the special rate of $12.95. (CURRENTLY - only one left!)
HAL OTT -- Flute For Thought...
Flute For Thought - Music by 20th Century American Composers. With Mia Spencer, Soprano and piano, and Andrew Spencer, Percussion. Works by: David N. Baker, Salvador Brotons, Wallingford Riegger, John Boda, and Robert J. Frank. 49'38"
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