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"The Museo dell’Arpa Victor Salvi, located at Piasco, at the entrance to the Varaita Valley, the area that used to be the old marquisate of Saluzzo, in the district of Cuneo, was inaugurated on 3 December 2005 and is managed by the Associazione Museo dell’ Arpa Victor Salvi.

It is the very first museum entirely dedicated to the harp, its history and music, in a multi-functional building with exhibition area, auditorium and historical archives now being prepared.

The Museum, promoted by the Comunità Montana Valle Variata, the Fondazione Victor Salvi and the company Salvi N.S.M. s.p.a. has been financed by the European Union F.E.S.R., the Ministero dell'Economia e delle Finanze, the Regione Piemonte Direzione Industria-Turismo–Economia Montana, by G.A.L. (Tradizione delle Terre Occitane I.C. Leader AZ. 3.1) and N.S.M. s.p.a.

Work started in July 2004, the Musuem was inaugurated on 3 December 2005 and was opened to the public on 28 January 2006. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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CIMCIM is the acronym for Comité International des Museés et Collections d'Instruments de Musique (International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections) CIMCIM is one of 25 international committees of ICOM, the International Council of Museums, and was established in 1960. CIMCIM aims to promote high professional standards in the use and conservation of musical instruments in museums and collections. CIMCIM meets every three years during the ICOM General Conferences and in each of the other two years organizes a special meeting, usually including symposium papers and museum visits. Meetings are held in different countries of the world: recent venues have included Austria/Slovakia/Hungary, Norway, U.K., Belgium, Canada, Japan, U.S.A., Netherlands, Germany and Argentina. ...

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Iconography of the early flute. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Pianosromantiques is dedicated to French grand pianos built before 1850, particularly those of the great firms Boisselot, Erard, Pape and Pleyel. The idea is to create a photo database of the instruments disseminated in different private or public collections around the world, with a brief history of  their makers. I hope this virtual museum will contribute to the appreciation of these rather neglected instruments (compared for example to the Viennese pianos), that a lot of pianists have never had a chance to play because of the scarcity of well-restored examples. The admiration that composers such as Liszt (Erard and Boisselot), Mendelssohn (Erard) or Chopin (Pleyel) expressed towards their French pianos should be motivation enough to rediscover these instruments, whose touch and sound shed fascinating light on the romantic music composed on and for them. ..“

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“The International Music Council (IMC), founded in 1949 by UNESCO, is the world's largest network of organizations, institutions and individuals working in the field of music. The International Music Council promotes musical diversity, access to culture for all and unites organizations in some 150 countries worldwide in building peace and understanding among peoples of all cultures and heritage. …”

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"Home to the famous Jean de Boizard organ (1714) the Saint-Michel abbey has welcomed for the last several years, the most sought after artists of ancient music. The music coproduced by radio France MUSIQUE with the choreographic collection called TEMPERAMENTS, confirms the baroque destiny of the abbey in harmony with the site. The ancient and baroque music festival The festival has its roots in the restoration of the prestigious historical organ (1714) of the abbey church and the artistic activity that followed as a result since1984. The festival was started in 1987 with the important decision by Radio France and the Conseil General of the Aisne departement : Every Whit Monday the train of FRANCE MUSIQUE radio would, for a whole day of music, take several hundred Parisian music lovers to attend two concerts transmitted live on radio. " See website for more information. (ed.)

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Visit the music museum of Barcelona to see its collection of early music instruments. (ed.)

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“Trace the history of music with a visit to Denmark’s most comprehensive collection of instruments from all over the world at the Danish Music Museum, close by the gardens of Rosenborg Castle.

The museum’s evocative exhibitions provide a historic journey through the fascinating world of European musical instruments, with a special emphasis on the period from the renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century. See such curiosities as the amoeba-shaped violin and the giraffe-piano. Or visit one of the many permanent thematic exhibitions focusing on for example the raucous guitars of the mid-60’s Danish rock bands, or the ingenious creations of Danish instrument-makers.

The museum has a constantly varying series of special exhibitions. Throughout 2006 the special exhibition is dedicated to The Danish Piano – from piano to forte. ..” Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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Dating a Bach manuscript, instrumenting a Bach chorale and discovering the sound of the baroque instruments! The Bach Museum Leipzig offers visitors many opportunities to become active themselves.

On 20 and 21 March 2010, the days to Johann Sebastian Bach's 325th Birthday, the Bach Museum was opened. ..“

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Welcome to the recorder Museum. Recorder Museum was created in collaboration with many friends, recorder, players and collectors. It is a museum for old instruments. It is a reference book for many recorders of all generations flute. It is an informative walk through the company and the flute recorder makers. ..“

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“The history of the Swiss Museum of the Organ is the result of in the double safekeeping of important goods of the musical and architectural patrimony of the nation: a wonderful collection of antique organs showed in a barn post which is nine centuries old. As soon as you enter the museum, you will run your eyes over the hydraulic organ (about 246 before J.-C.), passing by instruments such as the Elysée organ, the one of the Emmental, the one in cardboard, the barrel organs, the flute clocks, the open organ,  the harmoniums, until the great organ of Radio Lausanne. ..“

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Renaissance Flute Iconography. Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"REED is an international scholarly project that is establishing for the first time the broad context from which the great drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries grew. REED examines the historical MSS that provide external evidence of drama, secular music, and other communal entertainment and ceremony from the Middle Ages until 1642, when the Puritans closed the London theatres. Although the project is based at Victoria University in the University of Toronto (an institution renowned for its scholarship in medieval and early modern culture), REED's internal governance is provided by an Executive Board of senior scholars in early drama and related fields. Its advisors and collections editors are drawn from Canada, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. " ...

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"Orpheon wishes to open your eyes and ears to the marvelous world of string instruments of the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Classical Periods. The collection now contains over 170 instruments (viola da gamba, viola d'amore, violin, viola, violoncello, violone, baryton) and historical bows dating mostly from 1560 to 1780, all restored to their original playing conditions and placed at the disposal of members of the Orpheon Orchestra, Orpheon Consort, and professional musicians and university students from all over Europe for concerts, recordings, contests and study purposes. Its owner, Prof. José Vázquez of the University for Music and the Performing Arts Vienna holds that it is the living acoustical heritage - the sounds that these instruments produce for those living today - that interests us, and not their mere decorative flair as objets trouvés from aristocratic residences of our distant past. We wish to hear what these instruments have to say and we wish to learn from them about the manner of performance of their musical heritage from the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Classical Periods. "

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