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.
|