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Description: | Musical instruments will be on display in the Museum from
Autumn 2002 when the new Music Gallery opens. Music making around the world is represented by the Horniman's
collection of musical instruments, one of the most comprehensive
in the UK. The museum has over 7,000 objects made to produce
sound. The oldest instrument is a pair of bone clappers in the form
of human hands made in Egypt around 1,500 BC. Electric guitars
and synthesizers dating from the 1990s are among the most recent
acquisitions.
The museum aims to acquire sound and video recordings with the
documentation for each new instrument. Recent collections of
instruments commissioned from makers in Belarus and
Uzbekistan, and the newest collections associated with traditional
music in India, are supported by a rich archive of such recordings.
Normally instruments are not played in order to ensure that they
are preserved for future generations. The music that the
instruments make will be made available to visitors via
accompanying recordings alongside the gallery displays, recitals
and performances.
The musical instrument collections include wind instruments, stringed instruments, percussion
instruments and keyboard instruments from Europe, Asia and Africa.
Further details will be made available shortly of specific
instruments from the concertina collection and of instruments that
will be displayed when the new music gallery opens in Autumn
2002.
The Library also contains material relating to the collection of musical instruments.; Searchable electronic catalogue available on site.
Horniman Museum, Horniman Museum & Gardens, | Format: | Books Sound recordings Musical instruments Video cassettes | Subjects: | Music Wind instruments; stringed instruments; percussion instruments; keyboard instruments | Source: | Backstage | Address: | 100 London Road, Forest Hill,,
SE23 3PQ | Creator: | Horniman, Frederick; Wheatstone, Charles; Dolmetsch, Arnold; Stephen, J. Leslie | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Language: | en | Format: | Books Sound recordings Musical instruments Video cassettes | Go to resource |
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