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unusual facts about Musical Instruments



Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

The collection is named after Philip Bate who gave his collection of musical instruments to the University of Oxford in 1968, on the condition that it was used for teaching and was provided with a specialist curator to care for and lecture on it.

Henry Hottinger Collection

Henry Hottinger was a founder and member of Wertheim & Co., a firm of Investment Bankers, who was also very much interested in Musical Instruments and subsequently he amassed the best-known collection of rare violins of the mid-20th century.

The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation

According to the Foundation's website, "MHOF donates musical instruments to music programs where students have access to a music curriculum but lack the resources and support base to adequately keep up with equipment loss due to attrition, depreciation and wear over time. An infusion of instruments and repairs enables more students to participate and experience a quality music education."


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Adoration of the shepherds

In Renaissance art, drawing on classical stories of Orpheus, the shepherds are sometimes depicted with musical instruments.

Almost Unreal

The video clip starring Nick Pickard as a young man playing a video game in which he's watching parts of the film and the band members who sing the song, while changing characteristics such as the singer's costume, musical instruments and so on.

Antoine Beaussant

It manufactures some 60,000 musical instruments every year under the Buffet Crampon, Besson, B&S, Antoine Courtois, Hans Hoyer, J. Keilwerth, Meinl Weston, Scherzer and W. Schreiber brands.

Bontempi

The company continues to make low-priced musical instruments aimed at the educational and toy market, including keyboards, guitars, drum kits and various items of tuned percussion.

Boøwy

Tsuchiya faced an uphill battle in promoting them; with no funds, he gathered hand-made flyers, posters, character goods, the musical instruments and the band in an old Toyota HiAce with no AC and went on a trip around Japan looking for places to perform.

Cross-Cultural Dance Resources

CCDR also maintains a non lending library of over 15,000 shelved items, including artwork, audiovisual materials, books, clippings, monographs, periodicals, costumes, dolls, and musical instruments, as well as the archives of Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, Eleanor King, Joann Kealiinohomoku (in progress), and the Daniel J. Crowley musical instrument collection.

Dalbergia nigra

It was used in instruments as long ago as the late Renaissance and Baroque eras, when luthiers used it for lute backs (ribs) and various parts of other stringed musical instruments.

Daphnis et Alcimadure

Mondonville's Occitan opera was again performed in Montpellier in 1981 and recorded; in 1999 some pieces were recorded on CD with baroque musical instruments.

Drum screen

It is a transparent acoustic panel or system of panels that are used around drums, percussion instruments, and possibly other loud musical instruments in order to acoustically separate unusually loud instruments from other musical instruments and vocalists that may be in close proximity.

Dūdas

At the end of the 19th century, such musical instruments had disappeared throughout most of Latvia, and only in Alsunga were pipers still present in the beginning of the 20th century.

Elbern Alkire

A collection of Alkire's original and published music, correspondence, and musical instruments, including four prototype Hawaiian guitars is housed at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Eloy d'Amerval

In addition to listing musical instruments, he lists who he considers to be the great composers of the time: they are residents of Paradise in his poem, even though several were still alive in 1508, the date of its composition.

Evan Gorga

In 1949 he left a collection of about 3.000 pieces, made up of mostly musical instruments but also a few paintings and other forms of art, to the State of Italy that is now on display at the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

Experimental musical instrument

In 2013, a research team of McGill University came up with digital musical instruments made in the form of Prosthesis.

Fflach

Fflach has two subsidiary labels: Rasp, formed in 2000, which records and releases music by new rock and pop bands; and fflach:tradd, formed in 1997, which records and releases traditional music, specialising in indigenous musical instruments such as triple harp, crwth, pibgorn and Welsh bagpipes, thus gaining the label an internationally respected reputation.

Fiddleback

Fiddleback, a particular grain of maple wood used for musical instruments

Five Hand Reel

He worked for a Canadian company, Long & McQuade Musical Instruments in Toronto until 2012, he now runs his own business.

Five valve euphonium

Also, Cerveny Musical Instruments manufactures several euphoniums with five vertical rotary valves today, but this is an unrelated recent development.

FJB

Fender Jazz Bass, well known bass guitar produced by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation

Foad Manshadi

Foad began his journey with music by learning to play the Setar, despite the fact that learning an instrument was very difficult due to the prohibition of carrying musical instruments in small towns.

George Beauchamp

George Delmetia Beauchamp (March 18, 1899 – March 30, 1941) was an inventor of musical instruments and a co-founder of National Stringed Instrument Corporation and Rickenbacker guitars.

Gurunanak Darbar, Ireland

On the right of the Guru Granth Sahib, musicians with harmoniums, tabla and other musical instruments sing hymns from it.

Helikopter-Streichquartett

The piece focuses on Stockhausen's dreamed idea of a string quartet playing tremolos which blend so well with the timbres and the rhythms of the rotor blades that the helicopters sound like musical instruments (Stockhausen 1996, 214).

Hornbostel–Sachs

Hornbostel and Sachs based their ideas on a system devised in the late 19th century by Victor-Charles Mahillon, the curator of musical instruments at Brussels Conservatory.

Joe Cuba

In 1966, his band which included timbales, congas, sometimes bongos, bass, vibraphones, and the piano among its musical instruments, scored a "hit" in the United States National Hit Parade List with the song "Bang Bang" - which helped kick off the popularity of the boogaloo.

Katsutoshi Nagasawa

Nagasawa composed for traditional Japanese musical instruments (e.g., Shakuhachi, Koto, Shamisen).

Landesmuseum Württemberg

history of art and cultural history: modern era glass, Württemberg crown jewels, medieval art, art chamber of the Württemberg rulers, modern glass painting, musical instruments (located in the granary), clocks and scientific instruments

Liam Jordan

He is known to play several Irish musical instruments and helped out The Dunnes in June 2013.

Lisbon, Ohio

The Dulci-More Festival, a music festival dedicated to the Appalachian dulcimer and other traditional musical instruments, was inaugurated in 1995 and takes place each Memorial Day weekend at Camp McKinley, a Boy Scout camp near Lisbon.

Malcolm Le Maistre

He learned to play various musical instruments over the next few months, and contributed as a musician, songwriter and singer to the ISB albums Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air (1971), Earthspan (1972), No Ruinous Feud (1973), and Hard Rope and Silken Twine (1974).

Museum of Ancient Greek, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Instruments

The three exhibition spaces display over 200 musical instruments, which existed between 2,800 BC and the beginning of the 20th century and have been accurately reconstructed with the help of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki to compose the museum’s initial collection.

Museum of Musical Instruments, Céret

The Museum of Musical Instruments of Céret (French: Musée des instruments de Céret), also known as MúSIC, is located in Céret (Pyrénées-Orientales).

Needing/Getting

A music video, released in February 2012 as an advertisement for Super Bowl XLVI, features the band "performing" the song by driving a Chevy Sonic through a rally car course, striking musical instruments on the sides of the course with extensions from the car to create the music.

New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments

New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments is a 1975 album by Max Eastley and David Toop.

Peter Kinzing

He began work with the German ébéniste David Roentgen circa 1770; Roentgen made the cases, and Kinzing produced the complicated mechanisms with automatic musical instruments, especially organs und dulcimers, a few carillons are also known of.

Pierre-Jean Croset

During the Festival of Avignon in 1985, he exhibited his musical instruments and performed for the Chartreuse of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.

Puirt à beul

Although some people believe that puirt à beul derives from a time when musical instruments -- in particular bagpipes -- were unavailable because they were banned, there is no evidence that musical instruments were banned by the Disarming Acts or the Act of Proscription 1746.

Selmer

Conn-Selmer, manufacturer and distributor of musical instruments for concert bands, marching bands and orchestras

Shang Dynasty

Other advances included the invention of many musical instruments and observations of Mars and various comets by Shang astronomers.

Snowshill

The manor house contains an unusual collection of furniture, musical instruments, craft tools, toys, clocks, bicycles and armour, all collected by architect and craftsman Charles Paget Wade between 1900 and 1951.

Sons of Maxwell

In July 2009 the band became an international media sensation when they released the country-style song and music video "United Breaks Guitars," explaining how after United Airlines personnel damaged their musical instruments, the airline refused to take responsibility or give compensation for the loss.

Sordun

Two sourdines belonging to the Museum of the Brussels Conservatoire, said to be facsimiles of some instruments belonging to the emperor Maximilian I's band, are reproduced in Captain U. R. Day's Descriptive Catalogue of Musical Instruments (London, 1891).

Stephanhöuser Saxophones

Distributed by the Elkhart, Indiana-based Gemstone Musical Instruments, Stephanhouser creates alto, tenor, soprano, and baritone saxophones for musicians at all levels, from student to professional.

Steven M. Martin

He made a documentary on Léon Theremin, the inventor of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments, which was critically acclaimed.

The Allen Brothers

The brothers were born and raised in Sewanee, Tennessee and they both learned to sing and play musical instruments, Austin played the banjo while Lee concentrated on the guitar and kazoo.

Trembita Musical Instrument Factory

The Lviv factory of musical instruments known as "Trembita" is primarily a factory for the manufacture of guitars and mandolins.

Vincenzo Gamba

Vincenzo Viviani (1622–1703) mentions Vincenzo Galilei’s skill as inventor of musical instruments and in particular his construction of a "lute made with such art that, playing it so excellently, he extracted continuous and goliardic voices from the cords as if they were issuing from an organ's pipes...".

When Everyone Wore Hats

Greg Flesch: Organ, (Greg also plays Guitar, Accordion, and other assorted musical instruments)

Young Woman Seated at a Virginal

List of paintings by Johannes Vermeer, including paintings of other women with virginals and other musical instruments