khong mon lek, Early 20th century, Thailand, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Serpent in D by Nicolas Pierre Joly, France, 1829 | Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection,

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Oriental guitar family type instrument. Sursanga, 19th circa, made from Indian wood, pearl and ivory.

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Clavicytherium, Germany, 18th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Ancient Egyptian arched harp (shoulder harp) frem c. 1390-1295 BCE, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Alpine Zither (Arion Harp Model) by Franz Schwarzer, Washington, Missouri, 1888

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Rupert Carabin (1862-1932) Piano, 1900 Sculpted Wood

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Lyraflugel ~ This type of upright piano was made almost exclusively in Berlin between 1820 and 1850. The Lyraflügel was a fashionable fixture of middle-class Biedermeier parlors in northern German lands. In the period of the Napoleonic occupation (1806–13), the lyre had become a symbol of freedom and liberation. It was popularized in songs based on the collection of patriotic poems, With Lyre and Sword, by the poet Theodor Körner (1791–1813).

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Pipa, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), late 15th–early 16th century China Wood, ivory, bone, silk

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Tena Krecklow • 12 days ago
*Sarangi (1900) ~ A beautiful full sound and a close proximity to the melodic flexibility of the human voice make the sarangi the most important bowed instrument of classical Hindustani music of northern India and Pakistan. A rigid horsehair bow (not shown) rhythmically sounds the gut melody strings that cross over an ivory elephant-shaped bridge (bara ghurac).

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Stradivari's Marylebone cello, 1688 I really need to play cello again. I miss music

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Practice violin Charles F. Albert, about 1886

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Marie-Antoinette’s Harp
Marie-Antoinette was notoriously badly educated. She read little and knew no Latin. Worse, she had never been taught to concentrate. In 1766, Louis XV was appalled at her somewhat approximate French. But music was her passion and she had great talent. She could read music, sing and play the clavichord. The harp was her favorite instrument and her teacher was the gifted Philippe Joseph Hinner. Marie-Antoinette’s patronage brought many celebrated musicians to the French court, notably Gluck.
This harp was made by Jean-Henri Naderman, luthier and harp-maker to the Queen, and was delivered in November, 1774, the year of the 19-year-old Queen’s accession. It is decorated with lilies and a cherub bearing the Queen’s arms. The sound board has paintings of Peace and Minerva, patroness of artists. Musée Municipal, Vendôme.

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Harfa

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Sursanga, 19th c. Indian wood, pearl. ivory.

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Mandolino, ca.1710, Italy, Spruce, ebony, ivory, mother-of-pearl.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Attributed to Giovanni Smorsone: Mandolino (2008.2a,b)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1750-1770 German (Butzbach)
Bassoon in C
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York

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1835 British Accordion
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York

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1835 British English bass horn in B-flat
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York

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1830 French Harpo-lyre
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York

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Kamanche [Iran (Tehran)] (1998.72)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1829 French Cor solo with case
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York

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18th century French Horn
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Amazingly, this horn is made out of glass

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Harp, Godefroi Holtzman, ca 1785, Maple, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.