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19 Jan 14 - 04:48 PM (#3593629) Subject: Music museums From: JennieG While toodling around on the interwebz I found this list of music museums in Canada - music museums It set me thinking, what other music museums exist? While researching my family history some years ago I found details of an accordion museum in Dargaville, on the North Island of New Zealand. (No, as far as I now there are no NZ accordionists in my family! My maternal grandmother was born in Aratapu and the museum is in the former library.) |
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19 Jan 14 - 05:15 PM (#3593641) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Tattie Bogle In Edinburgh we have a wonderful collection of instruments on 2 sites: see: Musical Instrument Collections in Edinburgh Another of the best collections I have seen is at Cite de la Musique in Paris: as you walk through the exhibits, a recording of the instrument or type of music you are looking at plays: it's all operated by sensors, so as you move on, the next one cuts in, etc. And do visit the Handel House in London! |
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19 Jan 14 - 05:26 PM (#3593645) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Jack Campin I've been to Dargaville. Once. It never occurred to me that there was a reason to go back. There is also a good display of Maori musical instruments at the War Memorial Museum in Auckland. I live near Edinburgh, which has the Reid Museum, with a great clarinet collection. In London there is the Horniman Museum (like the Reid but worse displayed). The best I know of is the Museu de Musica in Barcelona. |
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19 Jan 14 - 05:57 PM (#3593653) Subject: RE: Music museums From: GUEST,Ted Crum (Steamchicken) Also, be aware of the Bate Collection in Oxford. Fascinating diverse collection of instruments under the supervision of Mr Andrew Lamb, who can probably knock a tune out of all of them! |
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20 Jan 14 - 01:07 AM (#3593719) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Jim Dixon EMP Museum (formerly known as Experience Music Project), Seattle, WA Scott Joplin House State Historic Site, St. Louis, MO Schubert Club Museum, St. Paul, MN The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, AZ Backstreet Cultural Museum, New Orleans, LA |
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20 Jan 14 - 02:58 AM (#3593734) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Will Fly The Morpeth Bagpipe Museum - in Morpeth - is a must for visitors to Northumberland, and it helps if you like the smallpipes. One shouldn't forget London's Horniman Museum, which also has on loan some stuff from the Victoria & Albert Museum. The V&A itself broke up the collection in its old Music Gallery and considered the instruments as works of art and furniture - so they're now displayed in separate galleries. A theme which will be carried on when new galleries are opened shortly. A policy which leaves me distinctly unimpressed... |
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20 Jan 14 - 03:00 AM (#3593735) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Will Fly For info: The Morpeth Bagpipe Museum |
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20 Jan 14 - 03:25 AM (#3593738) Subject: RE: Music museums From: GUEST,LynnH Copenhagen, Stockholm.......... |
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20 Jan 14 - 03:47 AM (#3593741) Subject: RE: Music museums From: GUEST I believe there is a concertina museum in derbyshire, York city has some, Brussels and Paris. You can also see a collection of instruments owned by Django Reinhardt. edinburgh music school has some of Juian Bream's guitars. |
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20 Jan 14 - 04:46 AM (#3593756) Subject: RE: Music museums From: GUEST,FloraG The Thomas Hardy museum in Dorset has his fiddle - and I think the grandfathers cello. Some national trust houses have pianos that you are encouraged to play ( assuming you can ). The Brussels museum has lots of serpents. The Budapest museum is interesting to. FloraG |
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20 Jan 14 - 05:36 AM (#3593761) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Megan L In Glasgow 30-34 McPhatter street there is The piping museum |
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20 Jan 14 - 06:05 AM (#3593763) Subject: RE: Music museums From: GUEST,Peter Laban The Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels is a major collection Gemmentemuseum The Hague has a good collection of instruments the Vleeshuis, The butcher's Guildhall in Antwerp has a wonderful collection too. The list can go on and on. |
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20 Jan 14 - 06:06 AM (#3593764) Subject: RE: Music museums From: GUEST,Peter Laban I ran into the limited number of links a guest can add to one post so here some more: The National museum in Dublin has a fine collection although it's only partly on display at Collin's Barracks Cité de la Musique in Paris is great too. |
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20 Jan 14 - 06:18 AM (#3593768) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Manitas_at_home There's the mechanical music museum at Brentford. http://10551.easywebsiteinabox.org/contents/15 |
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20 Jan 14 - 06:26 AM (#3593770) Subject: RE: Music museums From: GUEST,Peter Laban Probably should have linked to this page in my previous post. Gives a better view: Cité de la Musique, Paris |
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20 Jan 14 - 07:25 AM (#3593779) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Megan L All about accordions 13 museums |
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20 Jan 14 - 09:15 AM (#3593800) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Richard Mellish Just tried Tattie Bogle's link and it didn't work. With any luck this one should. |
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20 Jan 14 - 11:26 AM (#3593854) Subject: RE: Music museums From: GUEST,chris Concertinamuseum.com Can't make a blue clicky!!! |
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20 Jan 14 - 06:56 PM (#3593999) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Jack Campin Ocarina Museum, Budrio, near Bologna, Italy Ocarina Museum, Korea The Dobro Hall of Fame, Trnava, Slovakia Unfortunately this one is purely virtual - the musical instrument section of the World Carrot Museum: http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/musical.html |
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20 Jan 14 - 08:27 PM (#3594037) Subject: RE: Music museums From: ripov Finchcocks in Kent, pianos, harpsichords, domestic organs - http://www.finchcocks.co.uk/ pleasant surroundings, local eateries rather dear! |
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20 Jan 14 - 08:36 PM (#3594048) Subject: RE: Music museums From: ripov And of course there is the Hill collection at the Ashmolean, only one room, but a complete museum comes with it. Or perhaps best visited as an addition to Bates. |
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21 Jan 14 - 03:39 AM (#3594139) Subject: RE: Music museums From: JennieG I forgot - there is a music museum in my town! The Country Music Hall of Fame |
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21 Jan 14 - 05:04 AM (#3594159) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Gibb Sahib I went to the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. It was quite fun - and a good way to beat the heat in the summer. The organization of it - mostly by country (every country in the world) does get quite tedious though. Oh look, we're in the Republic of Whatever now...and it's another fiddle and another accordion. I'd have preferred some other sort of classification, such as by instrument type, so as not to have so much redundancy. The mechanical instruments room was my favorite part. And my favorite instruments were the Filipino "brass" instruments (e.g. trombone, sousaphone) made from bamboo. |
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21 Jan 14 - 06:03 AM (#3594176) Subject: RE: Music museums From: nigelgatherer In Milan at the Sforza Castle there is an interesting music museum, more interesting to me because it naturally has many mandolins. I took some photos: Mandolins in Milan |
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21 Jan 14 - 06:43 AM (#3594181) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Dave Hanson There is also The Piping Centre on Skye, said to have been started by The McCrimmons, legendary teachers and pipers to the Clan McDonald. Dave H |
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21 Jan 14 - 07:59 AM (#3594202) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Jack Campin You have to wonder what the Sforzas did with those mandolins. http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sforza.html |
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22 Jan 14 - 07:56 AM (#3594589) Subject: RE: Music museums From: G-Force 25 years ago we went to a splendid hurdy gurdy museum in Montluçon in central France. Probably not worth making a special journey, but not bad if you're in the area. |
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22 Jan 14 - 08:29 AM (#3594598) Subject: RE: Music museums From: rosma My wife is particularly keen on mechanical music museums (I like them too). Here are some we've been to:
Also worth a mention is the Estonian Theatre and Music Museum, which I believe is the museum I visited around 2000 during some free time I had while visiting Tallinn on business. It may have changed since then but I was very warmly welcomed and given a personal tour (tags in Estonian were a bit of a challenge so it helped). Simon |
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22 Jan 14 - 09:15 AM (#3594613) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Roger the Skiffler ...and who could afford to miss: Kazoo Museum RtS |
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22 Jan 14 - 09:21 AM (#3594614) Subject: RE: Music museums From: Roger the Skiffler ...and I'm sure I don't need to tell American Mudcatters about the Washboard Museum in Columbus, Ohio. Who needs to got to Disneyland? RtS(sorry, you DID say music museums...) |