The Museum of Musical Instruments

Apparently this isn’t strictly speaking a museum, but it looks like one to me.

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http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/bauen/wanderungen/en/s61_instrumente.shtml

My photos only contain a very small range of the instruments on show. There are also harps, keyboard instruments, many stringed instruments and all sorts wind instruments. There are a few free reed instruments, including a pathetic example of an English concertina (a ropey old Lachenal). Part of a luthier’s workshop is there, the lovely old lathe shown in my slideshow.

The (not) Museum contains a great exhibition of pianos, showing how they are made. Another extraordinary exhibit is a vast Würlitzer organ, and it is possible to look inside it at the many different forms of percussion and organ pipes which it contains. It is played every Saturday at midday and we hope to attend before we leave Berlin.