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Metropolitan Museum of Art – Musical Instruments of All Nations 1910, 1910
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1GUIDE TO THE COLLECTION.
3GALLERY 38.
4INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORIENT.
5West Wall. China, Japan, Corea, Siam.
6North Wall. Burmah, India.
7East Wall. India, Asiatic Russia, Persia.
8South Wall. Turkey, Arabia.
9Small Central Cases. Odd Asiatic Instruments.
11EUROPEAN KEYBOARDS.
12Central Case. Plucked Strings: Virginals, Spinets, Harpsichords.
14GALLERY 37.
15INSTRUMENTS OF SAVAGE TRIBES AND SEMI-CIVILIZED PEOPLES
16East Wall. Africa.
17North Wall. Java, Oceania.
18West Wall. Oceania, Philippine Islands, North America.
19South Wall. Central and South America.
21EUROPEAN KEYBOARDS.
22Central Case. Struck Strings: Clavichords, Pianofortes.
24GALLERY 36.
25EUROPEAN INSTRUMENTS.
27Classified under four heads: STRING, WIND, VIBRATING MEMBRANES, SONOROUS SUBSTANCES. To study the classification, the starting point should be the EGYPTIAN TYPE CASE (Middle Case, No. 63, East Wall, see Plan of Galleries). The STRINGED INSTRUMENTS are to the left of this case, arranged under the three divisions of that class: Plucked Strings—Harp, Lute, Psaltery, etc. Struck Strings—Dulcimer, Keyed Cither, etc. Bowed Strings—Viol, Violin, Vielle or Hurdy Gurdy, etc. The WIND INSTRUMENTS are to the right of the Egyptian Type Case, arranged under the three heads of that class: Whistles—Vertical and Transverse Flute, etc. Reeds: Beating Reeds—Clarinet, Oboe, Bagpipe, etc.; Free Reeds—Accordion, Concertina (Central Case and Wall Case 63a). The third division, Cup Mouthpieces, Cornetto, Horn, Trumpet, etc., follows in Gallery 35.
29East Wall. EGYPTIAN TYPE CASE. To the left, STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. Plucked Strings: Harps, Lutes, Calasciones, Theorbos, Chitarrones, Mandoras, Pandurinas, Cavacos, Balalaikas.
31North Wall. Plucked Strings: Mandolines, Guitars, Harp Guitars, Lyre Guitars, Rote, Lyres, Citterns, Scheitholts, Zithers, Psalteries. Struck Strings: Dulcimers, Keyed Cither, Tambourin à cordes.
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