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Governing organization: Stadt Albstadt, Kultur- und Verkehrsamt, Rathaus, DW-7470 Albstadt.
Primary responsibility: Ursula Eppler Jehle, Georgstrasse 24, D 72469 Messtetten.
Open: 14-17 W, Sa; 10-12, 14-17 Su.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: about 120 instruments: 7 simple pipes; 18 woodwind instruments, including flutes -- one by Willem Wijne, Nijmegen, ca. 1740, clarinets, English horn, Germany, 1835, bassoon by F.G. Adler, Bamberg, serpent, Thomas Key, 1825; 9 brass instruments, including keyed bugles by K. Andreas Barth, München, J. Fink, Strassburg, ca. 1830, Anton Baaf with Boehm, Augsburg, 1828; hunting horn, Joseph Speth, Augsburg; 8 miscellaneous instruments; 18 models of keyboard mechanisms; positiv organ, South Germany, ca. 1750, organ, Johann V. Gruol, 1838; 4 plucked keyboards: spinett, The Netherlands, ca. 1700, harpsichord restored by Joh. Math. Schmahl, 1770, 2-20th c. harpsichords; 1 clavichord, ?Germany, 18th c.; 12 early pianos, including by J.A. Stein, Wien, 1777, Franz Anton Hayer, 1819, two 6-octave grand pianos, one, provenance Weimar, the other by Dieudonné and Schiedmayer; square pianos by Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer, 1843, Franz Anton Kaim, Kirchheim, ca. 1830; 8 flügel [winged-shaped pianos], by Johann Jakob Warth,
end of 18th c., lyraflügel, J.A.
Schleip, pianinos by Friedrich Mautterer, 1835, J.L. Schiedmayer, ca. 1840, Heinrich Spohn, ca. 1850, J.B. Erard, London, 1832, Hoelzer & Heizmann, Wien, 1848, Carl Bechstein, Berlin, 1856, Schiedmayer & Söne, Stuttgart, 1869; 10 pianos and the like; 6 harmoniums, one combined with a piano by Leopold Sulzer, ca. 1910; 20 stringed instruments, including a hooked harp, Tirol, ca. 1750, guitar Martin Rüdiger, 1822, zither, Georg Tiefenbrunner, ca. 1840, langeleik, Finland, hurdy gurdy, Germany, violins by: Martin Matthias Fichtl, Wien, ca. 1740, Georg Klotz, Mittenwald, 1770, viola d'amore, Saxony, hardanger fiddle, Norway, 1850; 9 accessories.
The museum library contains 18th-century editions of choral-and songbooks, a Carl Maria von Weber autograph, instrumental music and manuscripts including an 11th-c. example from St. Gallen; paintings including a portrait of Johannes Beck an Ebingen instrument maker; as well as a luthier's atelier containing tools, chemicals and 200-year old wood. An analogous shop for a keyboard instrument maker includes measuring sticks from many countries. Tools, pictures, mss., and materials from old instruments from famous keyboard instrument makers. These include some 17th c. tuning hammers and rulers from various countries.
History: The collection is housed in one of the many castles that belonged to the Shenken von Stauffenberg family (one member is known for his attempt on life of Hitler). Schloss Lautlingen was built in 1794, and rebuilt 1848-1850. In 1969/70 the town of Lautlingen bought castle from the Schenken von Stauffenberg family. The collection of Martin Friedrich Jehle (1914-1982), a keyboard instrument maker, was on loan to the Städitsches Heimatmuseum, Ebingen, D 72458 Albstadt. It was given to the public in 1977 and moved to Albstadt.
Services: workshop for a bowed stringed instrument maker and for a keyboard instrument maker; library and archives containing music, musical manuscripts, music literature about theory, history, and musical instruments; concerts; annual summer masterclass in Baroque performance.
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Governing organization: Geschichts- und Museumsverein Alsfeld, e.V.
Primary responsibility: Museumsleiter und 1. Vorsitzender. [Director, and chairman of the board].
Open: 9-12.30, 14-16.30 M-F; 9-12, 13-16 Sa; 10-12, 14-16.30 Su.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: musical instruments along with collections of religious art, decorative arts, costumes, armaments, industrial history, geology, prehistory, city history, crafts, paintings.
History: The museum was founded in 1898 as a house museum; in 1977 it was converted to a regional museum.
Services: library.
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Primary responsibility: Direktorin.
Open: 10-13, 14-17 Tu, W, F; 10-13, 14-18 Th; 10-14 Sa,Su.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: includes about 40 tower bells; handbells; plaster molds; tools; ringing apparatus.
History: Founded in 1952 to illustrate the history of the bell from the beginning, in 5 parts: bell archaeology; development of European tower bells; the manufacture of bells, how they are installed and hung; extra-European bells; bells in art, literature and language.
Services: guided tours.
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Primary responsibility: Direktor; Konservator [curator].
Open: 10-17, May-Sept.; 10-16, Oct-April. Closed Mondays.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: 31 European musical instruments including: crumhorns, early 16th c.;
dulzians, 2nd half 16th c. to early 17th c.; Augsburg-made bowed strings; fortepiano, 1802.
History: The musical instruments are housed in the Maximilianmuseum which was founded and first opened in 1855. The museum was created from the collections of the Historischer Verein für Schwaben und Neuburg. In 1948 the paintings and sculpture collections were removed to the Schaezler-Palais; in 1955 the museum was reassembled. The museum is now devoted to the history of Augsburg and its crafts.
Services: upon request: taped guided tour describing the collections.
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Governing organization: Gesellschaft der Freunde der Schlossconzerte
Collection: over 50 keyboard instruments including harpsichords, clavichords, pianos, organs dating from 1600 to 1860. All instruments are playable.
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Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: 14-17 Tu, Th, Su.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: about 90 brass instruments, 60 works of graphic art, methods, etc.
History: The collection of Ernst W. Buser, purchased in 1984, forms the basis of the collection. It includes 50 instruments and 50 works of graphic art. The museum was opened in 1985 on the first floor of a seventeenth-century castle.
Services: permanent exhibition; approximately one special exhibition per year; 2-4 performances and / or lectures annually; tours by appointment.
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Governing organization: Stadt der Bayreuth.
Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: 9-12, 14-17, 7 days a week, including 1 Jan., Easter, Whitsuntide, 24, 25 Dec.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: Eibach grand piano, no. 7000, on which Richard Wagner wrote Parsifal during his stay at the Villa d'Angri, Naples,1879. On loan from Richard-Wagner-Museum, Bayreuth.
History: The museum is located in the house where Franz Liszt died in 1886. Opened in October of 1993, it contains the collection of Ernst Burger purchased by the city in 1988, together with loans from the Richard-Wagner-Museum, and objects from his birthplace in Raiding in the Austrian Burgenland with which the present museum has a cooperative arrangement, and also from the Burgenlädishe Museum, Eisenstadt. The exhibition is arranged chronologically.
Services: audio tape of Liszt's music can be heard in the exhibition.
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Primary responsibility: Leiter.
Open: 10-17 Tu-Su.
Information sent: 1993.
Collection: clavichord, Christian Gottlob Hubert, Bayreuth, 1756.
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Governing organization: Der Richard-Wagner-Stiftung Bayreuth.
Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Museum open: 9-17 daily including Sa, Su except for 24-25 Dec. 1 Jan, Easter, Whitsuntide.
National Archive open: by previous appointment from 8.30-12.30, 14-16.30 M-F.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: A piano used by Wagner from 1843 to 1858 on which originated works from Tannhäuser to Tristan; two kettle drums used at the first Festival in 1876. A large organ, gift of the United States originally stood in the main hall. A square piano by Steingraeber & Söhne in the salon of the Siegfried-Wagner Haus was used by Richard Wagner during Festival rehearsals. A Steinway & Sons piano, given by the makers to the first Bayreuth Festival, occupies the main salon of Haus Wahnfried. Liszt often played this instrument.
The archives contains 11,000 volumes.
History: Haus Wahnfried was sketched by Wagner and begun 1874. He lived there with his family until his death in 1883. The Stiftung was founded in 1924; in 1927 it became a city institution. In 1945 a bomb destroyed a third of Haus Wahnfried including the salon. Wieland Wagner's family lived in it until 1966. In 1973 the house was given to city; the complete reconstruction of the house was begun in 1974. In 1976 during the hundredth anniversary of the Bayreuther Festspiele, Wahnfried began its new role as the Richard-Wagner-Museum, and home to the Richard-Wagner Foundation's National Archive and research facilities.
The first floor contains the entry hall which occupies the full height of house. The salon, once the Wagner's living and family room, now contains the library. The garden rotunda affords a view of the graves of Richard and Cosima. Other ground floor rooms are used for temporary exhibitions. The museum rooms on the middle and upper floors house numerous pictures and manuscripts that illustrate the life and works of Wagner and the creation and history of the Bayreuth Festival. About sixty illuminated, primarily historical, stage models of Bayreuth depict stage settings from 1876 on.
The Sound Museum plays recorded selections in the Saal daily at 10, 12, and 14 hours. Recordings can be requested at other times. A video program is shown in the Kaminzimmer of the Siegfried-Wagner house daily at 11.15.
Video program at 11.15; curiosities and rarities in the treasury in the cellar where the mss are kept incl.
Natl archive is annexed in the museum. It contains the former Richard Wagner or Haus Wahnfried Archive founded by Strobel; furthered by Gertrud Strobel and in 1973 given by the family as property of the Stiftung Center of
Statue of Ludwig II in front of house; caricature painting in entry way showing antique tragedy, with the singer German myth with singer Schnor; music is Cosima W. united the allegory of art work of the future is personified in the small Sigfried Wagner their son. Siegfried Wagner house addition; property is further enlarged.
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Governing organization: Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz (SMPK).
(National museum within the group of state museums, which in turn, belong to the Foundation for Prussian Cultural Treasures.)
Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: M-Th, Sa.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: about 90 instruments.
History: The Egyptian Museum is one of the oldest departments of the State Museums of former Prussia. It contains one of the largest and most important collections of Egyptian art (along with museums in Cairo, London, and Paris). The collections provide a detailed picture of Egyptian life and art from prehistoric times to the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Originally royal property, it grew rapidly during the early 19th c. from the acquisition of major private collections. In 1830 it was one of four departments of the Royal Museums and was located in Monbijou Palace. In 1850 it was moved to the New Museum designed by Friedrich August Stüler. Purchases from Egyptian dealers as well as excavations led by the Museum and the German Oriental Society increased its collections during the 19th c. During WW II the collections were dispersed for safe keeping; some were destroyed, as was the New Museum. The remaining collection was divided; about one-third is now in Schlossstrasse 70, Charlottenburg; two-thirds is at the Ägyptisches Museum, Bodestrasse 1-3,
Berlin.
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Open: 9-16 Tu-F (closed every second Tu; 9-17 Sa; 9-18 Su.
Information sent: 1977.
Collection: about 30 automata of German origin, mainly from Berlin and Leipzig.
History: Collection opened in 1960.
Services: guided tours twice weekly, reference library, photo studio. Photos and slides on order.
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Governing organization: Staatliche Museen, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. (National museum within the group of state museums, which in turn, belong to the Foundation for Prussian Cultural Treasures.)
Primary responsibility: Leiter der Musikethnologie Abteilung.
Open: 9-17 Tu-Sa; 10-17 Su. Closed M.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: about 6500 instruments from Africa, Asia, America, Oceania / Australia, and folk instruments only from Europe; there are also 85,000 recordings of traditional music from all countries.
History: The museum was founded in 1873. Its collections are from the Art Chambers of the Great Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm in the 17th c. The Phonogramm Archive, founded by Carl Stumpf in 1900 and directed by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel after 1905. In 1934 it was annexed to the Museum für Völkerkunde as a separate department. The archive suffered considerable losses during WW II. In 1948 the museum was reopened, and in 1962 the department was renamed Musikethnologische Abteilung.
Services: instruments are exhibited with other ethnographical objects from their same geo-cultural areas. Occasionally there are special exhibitions of musical instruments, either by an organological group or by a particular theme or specific cultures. There is a museum-wide library, as well as departmental libraries. The Ethnomusicological Department's library contains a large number of volumes on musical instruments, as well as manuscripts, the sound archives, iconographic and photographic materials.
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Recordings: nos. 1-15 available on cassette or CD.
MC 1. Music from Turkey. Kurt u. Ursula Reinhard. 2 lps., Oct. 1985.
MC 2. Music from Gabela, Herzegovina / Yugoslavia. Dieter Christensen. [In preparation.]
MC 3. Orient / Occident Music from Southeastern Europe. Wolf Dietrich. 2 lps. 1983.
MC 4. Music of the Senufo, Ivory Coast. T. Förster. 2 lps. 1987.
MC 5. Music of the Pontic Greeks. Christian Ahrens. 2 lps. 1975/80.
MC 6. Music of the Hamar, Southern Ethiopia. Ivo Strecker. 2 lps. 1979.
MC 7. Music for Ch'in. China. Liang Ming-Yüeh. 2 lps. 1977/82.
MC 8. Music for Vina. South India. P. Srinivasan. 2 lps. 1980.
MC 9. Music of the Nubians. Northern Sudan. Artur Simon. 2 lps. 1981.
MC 10. Dikr and Madih. Islamic Customs in the Sudan. Artur Simon. 2 lps. 1982.
MC 11. Mukanda na makisi. Circumsision School a. Masks. G. Kubik. 2 lps. 1981.
MC 12. Gondang Toba / Northern Sumatra. Artur Simon. 2 lps. 1984.
MC 13. Gendang Karo / Northern Sumatra. Artur Simon. 2 lps. 1987. MC 14. Music in the Andean Highlands, Bolivia. Max Peter Baumann. 2 lps. 1982.
MC 15. Musicians from Malawi, Gerhard Kubik, Moya Aliya Malamusi. 1990
CD 16. Capoeira, Samba, Candomblé. Bahia, Brazil. Tiago de Oliveria Pinto. 1990.
CD 17. Dhrupadas from Darbhanga, North India. Peter Pannke. 1991.
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Open: 9-17 Tu-F; 10-17 Sa, Su. Closed on M, 1 Jan; 1 May; Ascension Day; 3 Oct.;
24, 25 31 Dec.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: some 2500 instruments: art musical instruments 16th -20th c., important instruments include early strings and keyboards, 17th c. woodwind, Mighty Wurlitzer organ. See also: Bonn: Beethoven-Haus, Bonngasse 20, * DW-5300 Bonn 1.
History: The museum was founded in 1888 at the Königlichen akademischen Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, with the purchase of the Paul de Wit Collection (240 objects in 1888, 282 more followed in 1890); the a third part was afterwards acquired by the Musikinstrumentenmuseum, Universität Leipzig. (DeWit also founded and edited the Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau. ) Important large acquisitions followed: 34 instruments from the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, 1888; 35 wind instruments from the Stadtkirche St. Wenzel in Naumberg-an-der-Saale; and in 1902 1145 instruments from César Charles Snoeck. Later, instruments were acquired from the families of: Weber, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Joachim, and Busoni, among others.
The instruments were first exhibited in 1893 at the ehemaligen Bauakademie am Schinkelplatz, Berlin; Oskar Fleischer was the first Leiter. In 1902 Kaiser Wilhelm II made possible the purchase of the César Snoeck Collection (1145 instruments), Gent. Also in 1902 the Hochschule and the Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente moved to Charlottenburg near Berlin. In 1920 Curt Sachs succeeded Fleischer as Leiter of the Collection, remaining until 1933; his successors were Georg Schünemann, 1933-35; Alfons Kreichgauer to 1938; Hans-Heinz Dräger to 1941; Hans Albrecht to 1949. In 1935 the Staatlichen Instituts für deutsche Musikforschung in Berlin was founded; it had three divisions: History founded in 1917, Volksmusik also created in 1917, and the Musikinstrumenten-Museum. In 1936 the museum moved to the Institut's building in the Palais Kreutz. From 1943 to 1949 the collection was placed in various storages; much was lost during WW II. In 1945 Alfred Berner was appointed Hauptreferent für Musik und Kunstangelegenheiten [main official
for music and art concerns], and in
1949 Leiter, when he moved the collection into Schloss Charlottenburg. It was first shown there in 1951. In 1962 the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz was created, and the museum moved to the Joachimsthalschen Gymnasium where its galleries were opened in January 1963. In 1966 Alfred Berner was named the museum's director. Hans-Peter Reinecke was named director of the Staatlichen Instituts in 1967; and made director of the museum in 1975 upon Dr. Berner's retirement. In 1979 ground was broken for the new building at the Philharmonie in Tiergartenstr. In 1984 Dagmar Droysen-Reber was named Direktorin, and the Institut's new building was opened, including the Musikinstrumenten-Museum's galleries. The museum celebrated its 100 anniversary in 1988.
Services: guided tours, performances, permanent and temporary exhibitions, conservation laboratory, photography, technical drawings. An archive including 80,000 photographs, engravings, technical drawings, postcards, posters, sound recordings. Library of 50,000 volumes.
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Collection: musical instruments in a collection of local history, ancient art and culture, folklore, numismatics, armaments and glass.
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Governing organization: Landeseinrichtung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Kultusministerium Sachsen-Anhalt, PSF 3780, D 38889 Blankenburg / Harz.
Primary responsibility: Direktor. Abteilungsleiter [department head].
Open: 14-17, Tu-Sa; 10-17 Su.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: about 350 instruments total. The collection of some 265 bowed and plucked stringed instruments illustrates 200 years of instrument building in the Markneukirchen tradition. More important instruments include a violin by Gregorius Karp, Königsberg, 1699; and others by Hopf, Ficker, Glass, etc. Altogether there are 47 stringed instruments of Bohemian and Sachsen regional significance. There is also a small collection of 17th and 18th c. woodwind and brass instruments and including long trumpets built by the local brass instrument making families of Schmidt and Pfaffendorf, and a transverse flute by an unknown regional maker. Keyboard instruments include pianos by F. Kuhlbörs, Clementi & Co., and a square piano by Steinway. Also, installed in the cloister refectory is an organ by Friedrich Wilhelm Wäldner, Dorfkirche-von-Morl (near Halle), ca. 1850.
History: The collection, which focusses on the instruments made by Bohemian and Sachsen musical instrument builders (the region around Markneukirchen and Klingenthal) in the Vogtland, was formed from three sources. After WW II, Karl Thom a businessman from Blankenburg began a small collection of musical instruments; after his death his son Eitelfriedrich Thom continued it. When the institute was founded, Thom donated his collection to the Telemann Kammerorchester. The institute added to it, purchasing instruments from other private collections. Peter Liersch of Potsdam, a restorer and friend of the museum, died at the end of the 1980s; his private collection was then acquired by the institute, which continues to add purchases and loans.
Services: monthly concerts; home of the Telemann-Kammerorchesters; research programs on 17th- and 18th-c. music; seminars on music history, baroque performance practice, musical instruments, pedagogy; international course for young instrumentalists; conservation seminars. Library includes recordings; archives; documentation; publications; restoration workshop; and Cistercian cloister herb garden.
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Information sent: 1977.
Collection: historic musical instruments included in a collection of folk art; art since 1945; Eastern European art; local history; sculpture.
History: founded 1960.
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Governing organization: Verein Beethoven-Haus, Bonn.
Primary responsibility: Archiv Direktor.
Open: 10-17 M-Sa, 10-13 Su, from 1 Apr. to 30 Sept.
10-16 M-Sa, 10-13 Su, from 1 Oct. to 31 Mar.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: includes musical instruments that once were in Beethoven's possession including the last fortepiano he owned, that by Conrad Graf; two square pianos; the 33-stop organ from the Church of the Minorites, Bonn, and his string quartet: violins said to be by Cremonese makers Giuseppe Guarneri, 1718, Niccolo` Amati, 1667, viola ? Vincenzo Ruggeri, 1690, 'cello by ?Andrea Guarneri, 1712; and the Josef Zimmermann Collection of about 180 17th and 18th c. woodwind instruments.
History: The string quartet of instruments was given to Beethoven by his benefactor Prince Carl von Lichnowsky and is on loan to the Beethoven-Haus from the Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Josef Zimmermann ( - ) formed his collection over a 40-year period. It has been on loan to the Beethoven-Haus since 1977; in 1981 the Haus received title to it.
Services: guided tours, occasional concerts, iconographic and photographic collections, archive, library, photography, restoration.
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Recordings, all on original instruments that Beethoven played:
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Primary responsibility: Direktor; Konservator.
Open: 10-17 Tu-Su; 10-20 Th.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: about 90 instruments; two-thirds of which were used by the military, including: 4 French horns, 8 signal horns, 9 trumpets, flugelhorn, half-moon hunting horn, euphonium, post horn, 4 cornet trombones, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, oboe; 17 drums, 4 bass drums, 4 cymbals. Also: 3 grand pianos, 4 square pianos, pianino, clavichord (copy); 3 organs, 2 hand organs; 3 baroque trumpets, 2 transverse flutes, 1 English horn, oboe, bassoon, guitar, zither, concertina; 3 whistles, several Jew's harps, 1 bark horn.
History: Founded in 1891, the museum's first exhibition on theatre and music was in 1896. Until 1960 the collecting of historical musical instruments was unsystematic. Since 1961 the collection has been enlarged to feature the history of musical instrument manufacturing and musical culture in Eastphalia.
Services: permanent and special exhibitions on Eastphalian music and theatre history; guided tours; occasional concerts; radio and television programs; reference library including music printed in Eastphalia in the 18th and 19th centuries, manuscripts and letters from Eastphalian composers, especially Louis Spohr; iconographic and photographic collections. Also a general museum restoration workshop.
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Primary responsibility: Jens Carlson, Direktor
Open: by appointment.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: 250 instruments including music boxes, orchestrions, fair organs, street- and barrel organs and pianos, automata, singing birds, carillons; phonographs from Edison to date.
Recordings: CDs, LPs, cassettes from fair organs.
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Primary responsibility: Ltd. Museumsdirektor; Oberkustos für Kunstgeschichte, Handwerk, u. Volkskunde; Wissenschafterlicher Mitarbeiter.
Open: 11-16 M, Tu, Th, F; 13-20 W; 9:30-13:30 Su.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: about 285 instruments including: ca. 110 European art instruments of all types; unknown number of folk instruments; ca. 185 from Africa, Asia, American Australia and Oceania.
History: Founded in 1861, the holdings come from local churches and the town hall. Keyboard collection donated by Grotrian-Steinweg in 1889 was severely damaged during WW II, and strings from the workshop of Rautmann in Braunschweig. The extra-European instruments are gifts related to the ethnographic collection.
Services: limited number of instruments on permanent display; occasional concerts; photos and slides available upon order; museum reference library with small collection on music history.
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Governing organization: Bremer Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte.
Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: 10-18, Tu-Su. Closed M.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: about 30 European art musical instruments, including 11 wind instruments made between 1723 and 1984; 27 flutes from the 18th to the 20th c.
Services: permanent and temporary exhibitions, guided tours, educational services, concerts, radio and television broadcasts, lectures and performances of recorded materials, photographs and slides for sale, reference library containing archives, iconographic and photographic collections.
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Primary responsibility: Leiter der Abteilung Völkerkunde, et Musikethnologie
Open: 10-18 Tu-Su; closed M.
By appointment for the part of the collection in storage.
Information sent: 1993.
Collection: about 1365 traditional musical instruments, including: 15 from Europe (Greece, Yugoslavia); about 500 from Africa (principally Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, Tansania, also from Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ruwanda, Uganda, Zaire); about 300 from Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, India and Turkey, Afghanistan); West Siberia: Chany and Nenzen (Finsch Collection, 1876); about 300 from the South Seas (Papua New Guinea: Sepik and Bismark Archipelago, Salomon Islands, Tonga, Australia; about 250 from America: Native North American, Mexico, Guatemala, Columbia, Venezuela, Brasil, Peru, Bolivia, and various archaeological objects.
History: Much of the collection was acquired by the museum between 1870 and 1918. The first director, Hugo Schall, made expeditions to East and Southeast Asia between 1896 and 1913 and was responsible for the addition of the largest number of objects including the musical instruments. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed the second most active period of collecting, including a complete Javanese slendro gamelan, played since 1981 by the ensemble ARUM SIH.
Services: special exhibitions; library, with a collection of over 280 recordings of African music and monographs emphasizing African music. Courses in gamelan, and drumming for students and other groups; instruction in playing and building other musical instruments; concerts; workshops; lectures; music festivals; restoration of instruments for exhibitions and for loans to music students. The museum is currently in the process of inventoring and cataloguing the musical instruments in preparation for a new edition of the resource catalogue.
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Governing organization: Badisches Landesmuseum, Bruchsal.
Primary responsibility: Museumsleiter.
Open: 9-17 Tu-Su. Closed M.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: about 240 mechanical musical instruments, including the main collection of automatic instruments including player pianos by Welte Mignon, Tel-Electric, Pianola; organs by Welte-Philharmonic-Organ, A fairground organ by the Gebr. Bruder, barrel organ by Blessing; orchestrions: "Maestö by Gebr. Weber, Waldkirch / Baden, 1923; Hupfeld-Helios, Wurlitzer Photo Player, Hupfeld-Phonolist-Violina; and music boxes by Mérmond Frères, Vichy. The museum includes a nearly complete collection of instruments made in the Black Forest; a collection of andriods and other mechanical figures on music boxes; and a collection of grammophones, record players, tape players and MC players.
Special instruments include: "Maestö by Gebr. Weber with keyboard, pipes, xylophone, drums, castanettes, tambourine, triangle and cymbals; a glass glockenspiel clock, Black Forest, ca. 1770; dulcimer clock with dancing figures, possibly by Mathias Faller, Black Forest, ca. 1770; wag-on-the-wall cuckoo clock, Black Forest, ca. 1840; "Euterpeon", a barrel pipe organ by Fa. Kleyser & Co., London, ca. 1820; walz orchestrion by M. Welte & Söhne, Freiburg, 1872; "Komet" by Firma Weissbach & Co., Leipzig, ca. 1890; jukebox by Wurlitzer Multi Selector Phonograph, model 780-E, North Tonawanda, New York, 1940.
History: The museum was founded in 1975 by Jan Brauers in Baden-Baden where it remained as a private museum until 1982. Many of the instruments are in playing order and can be heard. The state of Baden-Württemberg purchased it in 1983 and added to the collection so that it documents all types of automatic musical instruments and their historical development. It is installed in a rococo castle built about 1722. A smaller portion of Brauer's collection can be found in Mannheim in the Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit.
Services: tours, performances, lectures; library; an archive of paper note rolls, copies of 1,300 patent specifications, and historical recordings performed by well-known composers.
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Governing organization: Streich- und Zupfinstrumentenmacher-Innung.
Primary responsibility: Gerold Karl Hannbach, Rosenhügel 10a, DW-8526 Bubenreuth.
Tel.: (09131) 21382.
Open: 14-16 h., Su.; other times by appointment with Herrn Hannabach.
Information sent: 1992.
Collection: about 140 bowed and plucked stringed instruments, including violin-family instruments; violas da gamba; bows; lutes; guitars dating from the 17th through the 20th c, and about 100 accessories. The collection features musical instruments made by expelled stringed-instrument makers and companies from the Egerland.
History: The museum features the work of exiled Czech makers who left Bohemia in 1954 for the Erlangen area of Bavaria. The collection, most of which is on loan, illustrates the high level of craftsmanship of Czechoslovakian luthiers. In 1979, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the foundation of Die Streich- und Zupfinstrumentenmacher-Innung, a permanent exhibition of musical instruments and accessories was opened in the town hall, Bubenreuth. All makers represented are carrying on their trade commercially.
Services: guided tours, exhibitions.
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Governing organization: Gesellschaft zur Unterhaltung des Bowmann-Museums Celle.
Primary responsibility: Museumspädagogin.
Information sent: 1977
Collection: about 70 European instruments: ca. 30 of which are art instruments, ca. 40 are folk instruments.
History: Museum founded 1892, the instruments all donations.
Services: general library with small number of books about instruments and scores.
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Governing organization: Coburger Landesstiftung.
Open: 9.30-13, 14-17 daily, 1 Apr. - 31 Oct.
14-17 daily, 1 Nov. - 31 Mar.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: about 12 instruments from ducal possessions.
History: The Veste Coburg castle is one of the largest remaining meideval fortresses in Germany, dating partially from the 12th c. The castle is well known for its 300,000 works by such graphic artists as Dürer, Cranach, and Rembrandt. Martin Luther took refuge here during his heresy trial of 1530 where he wrote sixteen works.
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Governing organization: Stadtverwaltung Crailsheim, Postfach 1465, D-74564 Crailsheim. Municipal museum. Tel.: (07951) 403 115.
Fax: (07951) 43 234.
Primary responsibility: Stadtamtsrat.
Open: by appointment.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: over 100 violins, violas and 'cellos including instruments by Amati, Guarnerius, Guadagnini, Testore; some French instruments, violin-family instruments made by Johann Stüber, Den Haag, including his viola, 1938; a quartet by K. Gerhard Penzel; a collection of bows; and a few wind- and plucked stringed- instruments.
History: One of several museums in the town museum in Crailsheim,the Geigenmuseum was opened in 1938. It contains violin builder Johann Stüber's collection of stringed and bowed instruments. Johann Stüber (b. 1888) was a Dutch master-violinbuilder and founder of this museum.
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Open: by appointment.
Information sent: 1990
Collection: stringed zither (discant violin).
History: purchased in 1990 in Schleswig-Holstein.
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Primary responsibility: Direktorin; Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter die Kunst- und kulturgeschichtliche Abteilung; Oberkustos.
Open: 10-17 Tu-Su, 10-21 W.
Information sent: 1992.
Collection: about 110 instruments: an ivory cornetto, alto bombard, both 17th c.; 3 - 17th c. bass recorders, one by Jan Steenbergen, Antwerp; 2 - 18th c. alto recorders; waldhorn, 18th c.; stockflöte / oboe, Wohl, Paris, cal 1800; August Grenser, Dresden: bass clarinet, 1795, basset horn, 1805/7, bassoon, 1810; bassoon by Jean Nicolas Savary, Paris,ca. 1815; oboe, Triebert, Paris, ca. 1805; oboe, clarinet and basset horn by Johann Gottlieb Bischoff, Darmstadt, mid-19th c.; oboe, H. Backofen, Darmstadt, ca. 1820; clarinet, F.Boie, Göttingen, ca. 1830; English horn, G. Greve, Karlsruhe, ca. 1830; 3 trumscheits, 17th and 18th c.; hurdy gurdy, Holland, 17th c.; 2 lutes, Füssen: Georg Grief 1590, Magnus Hellmer, 1609; lute: Nicolaus Dopfer, Mainz, 1753; theorboed lute, Wendelin Tiefenbrucker, Padua, 1603; 2 chitarroni: Pietro Raillich, Padua, 1655, W. Kötting, Köln, end 19th c.; small mandolin, Pier Antonio Malvuolo, Firenze, 1724; cittern, Johannes Bochem, Köln, 1694; 2 - 18th c. bell citterns, one by Michael Bochem, Köln,
1720; small cittern by M. Bochem, 1729; 2 large citterns, Thüringen, late 18th c.; mandora, Benjamin Gronau, Danzig, 1767; 3 German zithers, 19th c.; gothic-form harp, 16th or 17th c.; small rococo harp, Germany, ca. 1740; 17th c. South German double harp; spitzharfe, early 18th c.; aeolian harp, Germany, ca. 1800; claviorganum, Germany, late 18th c.; spinetta-shaped piano, Germany, ca. 1770; upright wing-shaped pedal piano, Germany, ca. 1830; physharmonika, Casper Schlimbach, Königshofen/Ofr., ca. 1825; square piano, I.B. Vierheller, Darmstadt, ca. 1835; pyramid piano, Wien, ca. 1835; grand piano, I.B. Streicher, Wien, ca. 1850; 2 nail violins, early 19th c.; glass armonica, Germany, early 19th c.; tall side drum, Germany, ca. 1700. Also: about 37 African instruments; 1 American; 4 Austrailian and Oceanean.
History: The museum was founded in 1820; the nucleus of the existing collection of Western musical instruments originally belonged to Baron von Hüpsch (d. 1805). Hüpsch had left it to the Landgrave [Grandduke] Ludwig X of Hesse; the museum acquired it from the royal house of Hessen-Darmstadt. More instruments were added in the 19th c. In 1944 the museum was burned, including the old inventory books; more instruments have been added since.
Services: reference library, photograph collection, record library, photo studio and service; museum conservation workshop.
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Governing organization: Stadt Dingolfing. Tel.: (08731) 501127. Fax: (08731) 501166.
Primary responsibility: Der Archiv- und Museumspfleger der Stadt Dingolfing.
Open: 14-16, Tu, Th; 10-12 Su, Apr. - Dec.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: 6-keyed clarinet, Wolfgang Bergmeier, Frontenhausen, ca. 1840; hunting horn, Phillipp Schöller, München, 1766; valved trumpet, ca. 1860; zither, 19th c.; 5-octave piano, ?Augsburg, ca. 1800.
History: The Museum society was begun in 1905. During WW II the collections were partially in storage and the exhibition locked up. In 1959 the society was reopened; new exhibitions were presented in 1975. Another is in preparation.
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Governing organization: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Georg-Treu-Platz 1, Albertinum, Postfach 450, DO-8012 Dresden. Tel.: (051) 49 62 91.
Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: 9.30-17.30, May through October.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: 42 musical instruments, including a bass recorder, 5 bassoons, 7 silver-gilt trumpets, 8 harps, 4 stringed instruments, 3 harpsichords, 2 virginals, a clavichord, 17 pianos, a claviorganum, a positiv organ, a bass accordeon, a metallophon.
History: The museum was founded in 1876; rebult in 1907 in Dresden at Güntzstrasse 34. About half of the objects were lost during WW II in 1943/44. Some 10,000 objects were taken from various Saxon castles after the property laws were revised in 1945. From 1963 to 1965 the museum was moved to Schloss Pillnitz. Currently the return of objects to the families from whom they were taken in 1945 and after is being discussed.
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Governing organization: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: 10-18, Tu-Su. Closed M. An appointment is necessary to see the instruments.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: hunting horn, 16th c.; natural horn, 18th c.; a regal in the form of a gameboard by Pankraz Schneyer, Kulmbach, 1595; kettle drums, 17th/ 18th c.; and a 40-bell carillon of Meissen porcelain in the Glockenspielpavillion in the southwest corner.
History: The Zwinger is the joyous pleasure-palace built for festivals and tournaments during the Baroque period and decorated by the sculptor Balthasar Permoser, with a gallery added by Gottfried Semper during the 19th c. Several museums are located in the Zwinger: the Porzellansammlung, Tierkundemuseum (natural history), Mathematisch-physikalischer Salon (old globes, clocks, and scientific instruments), and the Historisches Museum in Semper's Rüstkammer extension of the palace containing the Saxon armory and other arms and armour from the world over.
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Governing organization: Stadtmuseum Dresden.
Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: 13-18, W-Su; tours at other times by appointment.
Collection: a few musical instruments, scores, pictures and documents on the life and work of Carl Maria von Weber.
History: Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) lived in this house with his family during the summer months of 1818, 1819, 1823, and 1824. The museum was founded in 1957, and renovated in 1975. One room was built ca. 1680; the furnishings date from the early 19th c.
Services: music history lectures, concerts, and tours.
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Governing organization: Neue Bachgesellschaft Sitz. Leipzig.
Gedenkstätte für Johann Sebastian Bach.
Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: 9.30-16.30, M-F; 9.30-12.30, 13.30-16.30 Sa,Su.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: 200 musical instruments (string, wind and keyboard) from the 18th and 19th c.; decorative arts and furniture from around 1700, and books, manuscripts, paintings and graphics. Winds include: recorders: descant and bassett, J.C. Denner, Nürnberg, 1682 & 1687; alto, Johann Heitz, Berlin, ca. 1730; tenor, Claude Rafi, Lyon, ca. 1545; transverse flutes: in F, Jacob Denner, ca. 1755; in D, I.F. Engelhard, Nürnberg, ca. 1770; Michael Eisenmenger, Mannheim, ca. 1780; August Grenser II, Dresden, ca. 1795; G.A. Lehnhold, Leipzig, ca. 1805; J.F. Boie, Göttingen, ca. 1800; 3 by Theobald Boehm, München, 1832/33, 1847, ca. 1860; clarinets by J. Scherer, ca. 1755; 2 by J.G. Heinze, Leipzig, ca. 1815, 1820/23; C.G. Bormann, Dresden, ca. 1825; bassethorn, F.G. A. Kirst, Potsdam, ca. 1795; oboes: J.G. Schumann, Leipzig, 1757/61; Keller, Strasbourg, ca. 1775; Luigi Berlingozzi, Siena, ca. 1815; C.G. Finke, Dresden, ca. 1815; Gottlieb Streitwold, Göttingen, Ca. 1835; oboe d'amore Schefer, Germany, ca. 1730; bassoons:
History: The museum was founded in 1906 with the donation of the Alois Obrist Collection. It forms the nucleus of the museum. The museum, located in J.S. Bach's home, features memorabilia about him, and contains some 470 objects including music books and manuscripts, prints and drawings, paintings, and decorative arts as well as musical instruments.
Services: special exhibitions, concerts, documentary films, slides, sales desk with music, posters, prints, recordings: CDs and cassettes.
Publications include printed and illustrated catalogues, and documents from 1907 which describe the activities of the Bach-Haus, as well as:
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Primary responsibility: Direktorin.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: 17 instruments: 2 transverse flutes, 19th c.; wind instrument, 18th or 19th c.; hunting horn, Messing, 1746; waldhorn, ca. 1830; hirtenhorn [shepherd's horn], Messing, ? 19th c.; horn, under part leather, 18th or 19th c.; guitar, 1st third 19th c.; drum, early 19th c.; 2 grand pianos: Erard, Paris, early 19th c., another maker, 1800-1850; 2 square pianos: 18th c., early 19th c.; lyre piano, ca. 1810; positiv organ, 1722: glass armonica, early 19th c.; xylophon, ca. 1850.
History: Collection acquired by the museum between 1920 and 1930.
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Open: 14-17 Su, and by appointment.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: about 40 instruments: wood- and brasswind, drums, piano; and a nail violin exhibited in a Biedermeier-period room. The wind instruments and drums possibly come from the town band of Erding.
History: Founded in 1856 by Anton Bachmair with donations from local residents; the museum has had its own building since 1986. The instruments are in storage and not accessible to the public.
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Governing organization: Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Primary responsibility: Leiter der Musicological Seminar.
Open: by appointment.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: about 80 mainly European art instruments: 5 flutes, incl. one by J.H. Grenser or F. Grundmann, Dresden, end 18th c.; 2 piccolos; panpipe; 2 alto recorders: one by J.A. Löhner, Nürnberg, end 18th c.; 3 20th c. recorders; dvojnice; flageolet, ocarina, pitchpipe; 2 oboes: I. Kohlert, Graslitz, late 19th c.; W. Küss, Wien, ca. 1830; bassoon, J.A.Mollenhauer, Fulda, 19th c.; 2 clarinets, one by Max Stiegler, München, ca. 1820; bagpipe, Bulgaria, 19th c.
Mandolin, pandurina, 3 guitars, 3 citterns one each type: Thuringer, Mittenwald, Salzburg; hooked harp; theorbo, 20th c.; bass viol, S. Germany, late 17th c., tromba marina, Germany, ca. 1700; viola d'amore; kit; 2 German violins, 19th c.; hurdy-gurdy, France, 19th c.; 2 aeolian harps; 3 dulcimers; 2 jews-harps; cymbal, China; clavichords: fretted, 2, Germany, ca. 1770, end 18th c.; 2 unfretted, Tyrol, late 18th c., C.R.A. Venzky, Dresden, 1805; spinet, J.H. Silbermann,Strasbourg, 1767; virginals, harpsichord, both 20th c.; 4 grand pianos: J.D. Schiedmayer, Nürnberg, ?1798; 2 by J.G.Streicher, Wien, 1838, 1838/9; C. Graf, Wien, 1840; J.S. Heubeck, Erlangen, pre-1891; 4 square pianos: Leonhard Kummet, S.Germany, 1791; Caspar Katholnik,Wien, ca. 1800; J.C.H. Kiesselstein, Nürnberg, ca. 1835; Eduard Haenel, Halberstadt, ca. 1849; tangentenflügel, Spaeth & Schmahl, Regensburg, ca. 1794.
History: Founded in 1923 with the collection of and an endowment from Reinhold Neupert, 1923-1925. Ulrich Rück (d. 1962) donated some of his collection in 1950. [More of the Rück Collection is at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg.]
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Primary responsibility: Kustodin.
Open: 10-17 Tu-Sa; 10-13 Su.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: 21 instruments, including 4 strings, 7 winds, harpsichord, spinet, piano, bandoneon.
History: The collection comes from citizens in and around Flensburg and is part of the historic furniture collection.
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Governing organization: Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Frankfurter Goethe-Museum.
Open: April- Sept. 9-18 h., M-Sa. Oct.-March 9-16 h., M-Sa, 10-13 h. Su.
Information sent: 1992.
Collection: 3 keyboard instruments: pyramid piano, Christian Ernst Friederici, Gera, 1745; two unfretted clavichords: W.H. Baethmann, Hannover, 1799; Christian Gottlob Hubert, Bayreuth (earlier thought to be by Hieronymus Albert Hass), Bayreuth, mid-18th c.
History: The museum is in the house of Goethe's parents where Goethe lived from 1749 until 1775. It was purchased in 1863 by the Hochstift, restored as an 18th c. residence because of its historical significance, and opened to the public. Because the Goethe family was quite musical the house is furnished with a music room with various instruments similar to those that belonged to the family, such as the pyramid piano by Henrici.
Services: permanent and special exhibitions, library and photo service.
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Primary responsibility: Direktor; Kustos.
Open: 10-17, Tu-Su, 10-20 W.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: about 200 musical instruments, including flutes from the 16th and 17th c., as well as lutes, harpsichords spinetti, etc.
History: Founded in 1878. Among the museum's earliest acquisitions were instruments from the Musikapelle, Frankfurt a.M., as well as the instruments of the Pfeifergericht. The collection continues to be enlarged.
Services: occasional concerts; photograph service.
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Governing organization: Stadt Frankfurt.
Primary responsibility: Bibliotheksrätin, Leiterin der Musik-und Theaterabteilung.
Open: by appointment.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: 5 wind instruments; 10 stringed instruments, late 19th-early 20th c.; clavichord, 18th c.; grand piano, John Broadwood, ca. 1820, often played by Mendelssohn.
History: The City Council Library for legal reference was founded in 1484 which later incorporated: the monastic library of the Grey Friar Monks; the archives of the Allgemeine Almosenkasten and Weissfrauen und Katharinenstift containing church music scores; and theater, operatic, and orchestral and ballet collections from the old theater in Frankfurt. In 1947 the Music and Theater Department was established.
Frankfurt's wine dealer Friedrich Nicolas Manskopf (1869-1928) formed a collection of some 30,000 objects of musicians' and actors' memorabilia including autographs, letters, printed portraits, photos, concert programmes, curios such as Beethoven's watering can which he supposedly used to cool his hands after playing the piano, Liszt's umbrella, and musical instruments. Manskopf established a museum in his house in 1893 where he organized and presented exhibitions shown there and elsewhere. After his death his collection was given to the city of Frankfurt. In 1946 the collection was integrated into the Music and Theater Department of the Stadt-und Universitätsbibliothek.
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Governing organization: Rat der Stadt Frankfurt-am-Main.
Primary responsibility: Curator, Africa and Indonesia.
Open: 10-17 h. Tu-Su + 10-20 h. W. Closed M.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: about 400 non-European musical instruments: Africa ca. 100, Asia (only Indonesia) ca. 70; America ca. 60; Australia and Oceania, ca. 150.
History: founded in 1904 from collections from as early as the 1830s. Thirty percent of the collection was lost during WWII.
Services: No permanent exhibition; occasional special exhibitions; tours, lectures by appointment; conservation; small collection of tapes and recordings; photographic service; ethnographic library.
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Governing organization: Rat der Stadt Frankfurt Oder
Primary responsibility: Berol Kaiser-Reka.
Open: by appointment; for demonstration performances Su, 10.30
Information sent: 1992
Collection: about 400 instruments. The stringed instruments are particularly interesting because of the number of 18th-c. bowed instruments with original fittings, and also because of the 19th c. examples that document the evoluton of unusual shapes. Some of the plucked strings have remarkable proportions. The collection also contains Prussian military instruments from the early 19th c. including a serpent and ophicleides. There is a Grenser bassoon, 1772. The collection includes 40 instruments from the Circus Museum, Viadrana.
History: The collection of Berol Kaiser-Reka (b. 1930) came from Brandenburg. His father Paul Kaiser-Reka (1881-1963) was a versatile musical virtuoso who played 34 different orchestral istruments in variety shows in Germany and elsewhere from 1905 to 1922. At the beginning of the 1920s in connection with the musical recordings with the development of films, Paul Kaiser-Reka became aware of historical instruments. He worked with Tri-Ergon-Gesellschaft. He created an exhibition of some 1000 historical instruments, many of which were non-European, which was well thought of in the international variety scene in the '20s and '30s. He later sold this collection: in 1942 the city of Köln bought 200 of the instruments; in 1959-1960 another 250 went to the Karl-Marx University Leipzig.
His son Berol Kaiser-Reka played piano, violin and trombone, clarinet, flugelhorn, and cello. In 1951 using only the name Reka he took over his father's work without much success because of the difficult postwar years for performers. In 1963, upon inheriting 33 instruments from his father, he began collecting instruments too. He exhibited 80 instruments in the Steintorturm, Brandenburg. It was exhibited in two rooms of Sans Souci, Pottsdam from 1970 to 1974. In 1975 it was moved to Frankfurt Oder and 250 instruments were sold to the city. Berol Reka curates the collection and continues to exhibit instruments of his own making.
The museum also contains five wind instruments that once belonged to Damast- und Heimatmuseum, Grosschönau, which gave them to Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. Humboldt-Universität subsequently donated them to the Museum Viadrana.
Services: Thirty instruments are in playing condition and can be played during demonstrations.
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Governing organization: Rat der Stadt Freiberg / Sachsen, and the Freiberger Altertumsverein.
Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: only by appointment.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: about 35 instruments including bowed and plucked strings, winds, percussion, and mechanical instruments including a 17th c. positiv organ from a mining prayer-meeting room; bassoon, Grundmann, Dresden, 1782; a collection of 34 Russian horns, early 19th c.; Eister [pandora], 18th c.; mining zithers; music boxes; symphonion, late 19th c.
History: In 1860 the Freiberger Altertumsverein began collecting objects that document the history of Freiberg, Sachsen, and local mining, including musical instruments.
Services: concerts and radio programs; reference library.
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Open: 10-18 Tu-Su in summer; 10-17, Tu-Su in winter. Closed M.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: pyramid piano, Carl Sondhausen, Erfurt (Thüringen), ca. 1825.
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Open: by appointment; and 14-17, Sa, Su. April-October.
Information received: 1977.
Collection: mechanical musical instruments including carousel organs, barrel organs, electrical pianos, phonolas, pianolas, music boxes.
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Governing organization: Rat der Stadt Füssen
Primary responsibility: Leiter des Kulturamtes.
Open: Apr.-Oct.: 11-16 h., Tu-Su. Closed M. Nov.-March 14-16 h. Tu-Su.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: 41 fretted and bowed stringed instruments made in and around Füssen from the 17th through the 20th c. including: 3 lutes: (by W.Tieffenbrucker, ca. 1580, theorbo, Basilio Smit, early 17th c.); 4 guitars, 18 violins (1 by Franziskus Geissenhof, 1809), viole d'amore (P. Alletsee, 1727, J.U. Eberle, 1729); Wellengeige, J.A. Gedler, 1775; 2 'cellos, 1 double bass, 2 citterns, 2 zithers, a harp, as well as the complete workshop of Konrad Leonhardt, violin maker and former headmaster of Mittenwald, and an exhibit showing the various steps in making a violin.
History: this regional museum, which includes local crafts, sculpture, domestic arts objects, miniatures, stained glass, and natural history dating from the romanesque- to the rococo periods, was founded in 1913 by the Museumsverein, Füssen. In 1989 a new exhibition was opened in the former Benedictine cloister of St. Mang featuring three topics: the history of the cloister; lutes and strings; and a baroque room.
Services: guided tours by appointment.
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Governing organization: Museen der Stadt Gera, Am Nicolaiberg 3, D 07548 Gera.
Tel.: (070) 2 48 83.
Primary responsibility: Leiter.
Open: by appointment
Information sent: 1977
Collection: in storage.
History: founded 1945-1946 as part of the Theatre and Music Museum.
Services: library includes archives and iconography collection.
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Governing organization: Stadt Gera.
Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: 10-17 Sa-Th.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: recorder, Stengel; hunting horn, ca. 1860; walking-stick flute, early 19th c.; bass guitar-lute, "Goldklang", ca. 1910; 2 zithers; Scheitholz; schwarwälder Drehorgel, 23 pipes; several pianos including one by Frederici.
History: City museum was founded in 1878. A major portion of the manuscripts come from Gera families including Franz Münch, Spaethe, Ferber, Körner, etc. Betwen 1947 and 1954 the Music-and Theater Museum was separated and installed in the Orangerie of the Küchengarten. Afterwards it was integrated into the city museum. The museum also contains a collection of 175 scores and concert programs from the 18th and 19th c.
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Governing organization: Institut für Völkerkunde, Universität Göttingen.
Primary responsibility: Leiter des Instituts [head of the institute].
Open: 10-13 h. Su only; closed July through September and holidays.
Information sent: 1990
Collection: about 600 ethnographic instruments from thoughout the world.
History: The museum was founded at the end of the 18th c. with the acquisition of the extensive ethnological collections of Capt. James Cook (mainly objects from the South Seas) and that of Baron von Asch (North Asia and Bering Straight). These collections were removed in the 1930s [current location not specified].
Services: permanent, temporary exhibitions; guided tours; educational services including occasional classes, lectures, playing of recordings, films, library.
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Primary responsibility: wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter u. Kustos.
Open: by appointment; and 16-18, M during term.
Information sent: 1993.
Collection: 1380 instruments from Europe, Africa, Ancient Egypt, America, Oceania.
History: founded in 1964 when the government of Lower Saxony purchased the collection of Celle music publisher Hermann Moeck, Sr., (b. 1896). The Moeck Collection contained European and extra-European instruments, incorporating the collections of: ethnomusicologist Hans Hickmann (1908-1968) and Schäffer, München. In 1983 the collection of instruments from Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Nepal, assembled by ethnomusicologist Felix Hoerburger, Regensburg, was purchased; followed in 1988 by the collection of Turkish instruments gathered by Kurt and Ursula Reinhard, Berlin.
Hermann Moeck, Sr., (1896- ), founder of Moeck publishers and instrument makers, Celle, Germany, amassed his collection of 1027 European and extra-European instruments between 1930 and 1964, when he sold it to the University of Göttingen. Moeck purchased the Schäffer Collection, München, in 1954 and the Hans Hickmann Collection in 1957. The Moeck collection includes 1027 examples of all types of European art- and folk-musical instruments, as well as ones from Asia and Africa. Although very involved in the revival of the recorder, Moeck had a broad interest in organology; Curt Sachs influenced him.
Prof. Dr. Hans Hickmann (1908-1968), ethnomusicologist and composer, Cairo and Hamburg, acquired 132 instruments during his residence in Cairo, 1933 to 1957, where he also catalogued the collection of ancient instruments at the Cairo Museum and researched ancient Egyptian and traditional Near Eastern music and instruments. In 1957 Hickmann sold his collection to Hermann Moeck, Sr. It was included with his collection at its sale to the University. The Hickmann collection contains mainly ancient Egyptian instruments and small sculptures from the pharaonic and hellenistic periods, as well as recent Egyptian instruments. Hickmann was a pupil of Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs.
Schäffer, München, collected before 1954. Schäffer sold his collection to the town of Offenbach-am-Main (date unknown), which auctioned it in 1954. Moeck purchased most of it at the auction, and it was included in Moeck's collection when it was acquired by the University in 1964. The Schäffer collection contains mainly woodwind instruments.
Kegel & Konietzko exotic art trading firm, Hamburg-Blankenese. Lore Kegel and her son Boris Konietzko made several expeditions to the Belgian Congo and West Africa during the 1950s; Konietzko also made field recordings of traditional music for Radio Brazzaville from 1956 to 1958. Moeck purchased the Kegel & Konietzko collection of 30 African instruments (several from the Kasai district of Zaire - at that time the Belgian Congo). It was included in the sale of his collection to the University in 1964.
Prof. Dr. Felix Hoerburger (1916- ), ethnomusicologist, Regensburg, collected 136 Yugoslav, Afghan, and Nepalese instruments from about 1950 to 1975. He sold his collection to the University in 1983. Hoerburger researched Bavarian, Yugoslav, Afghan and Nepalese music and instrumental folk music in general.
Prof. Dr. Kurt Reinhard (1914-1979) and his wife Ursula Reinhard, ethnomusicologists, Berlin, were specialists on Turkish folk and art music. During their fieldwork, from 1955 to 1979 and 1988, they gathered their collection of 38 Turkish folk- and art-musical instruments. Ursula Reinhard sold the collection to the University in 1988 and 1992.
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Dr. Klaus-Peter Brenner (1958- ), German ethnomusicologist, Göttingen, specializing in Turkish and Zimbabwean (Shona) instrumental music. Collected 66 instruments (10 Turkish, 56 Zimbabwean (mainly Shona) instruments during fieldwork: 1984-1986 in Turkey, and 1993 in Zimbabwe. A loan in 1992; the collection will be acquired in 1994.
Prof. Dr. Martin Staehelin (1937- ), Swiss musicologist, specializing in music of Josquin's time, 18th- and 19th-c. music. Collection of 29 instruments, mainly European folk and historical woodwinds, including a Musettenbass formerly from the Josef Zimmermann Collection, Düren, begun in the late 1950s.
Services: exhibitions; guided tours for groups of 10-15; performances; department Seminar Library.
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Governing organization: Museen der Stadt Gotha, Parkallee 15, D 99867 Gotha.
Tel.: (0622) 3056.
Primary responsibility: Abteilungsleiterin, Musik- und Theatergeschichte Gothas, Ekhof-Theater.
Open: 9-12, 12.30-16 M; 9-12, 13-17 Tu-Su.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: about 75 instruments, including: 9 woodwinds; 23 brass; 15 plucked- and bowed instruments; a clavichord; 11 pianos; a glass armonica; and 15 mechanical instruments. Part of the collection is housed in the baroque Ekhof-Theater; part in the exhibitions of the Gothär Musikgeschichte Museum.
History: the Museum für Regionalgeschichte und Volkskunde was opened in 1928; it included the museum's first musical instruments. The collection, previously owned by the Gothär Heimatmuseum, was supplemented by instruments from former ducal collections. The Ekhof-Theater collection was founded in 1957 and first opened in 1959. The musical instrument collection has continued to grow ever since.
Services: concerts; ongoing exhibition of Gothär music history; special tours of it and the Handbibliothek Music / Theater which includes musical iconography. There are also musical demonstrations of instruments and Gothär compositions.
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Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: transverse flute; bassoon, H.Grenser; 3 clarinets: Crone, Guignot, Finke.
History: The instruments were first given to the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, which subsequently gave them permanently to Museum Viadrina, Frankfurt-am-Oder.
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Governing organization: Stadt der Halle.
Primary responsibility: Direktor
Open: 9.30-17.30, T-Su.
Special exhibition of musical instruments, Markt 13: 13-30-17.30 W-Su.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: 592 instruments: 488 European art; 95 folk; 2 African; 5 Asian. Many instruments were originally from the private collections of: Neupert (Bamberg-Nürnberg) about 25 keyboards; and the Rück (Nürnberg) are now in the Händel-Haus. ( See also Nürnberg, Germanisches Museum for more about the Neupert and Rück Collections.)
History: founded 1937; first opened 1948.
Services: guided tours, lectures, educational services; concerts, radio and television programs; recorded musical examples played during tours and studio programs. Library, archives, iconographic and photographic collections and sound archives. Sales desk; photographic services; restoration workshop.
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Open: by appointment.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: about 350 European and extra-European flutes of diverse types, including transverse-, notched-, beaked-, and vessel flutes made of various materials such as wood, porcelain, pottery, metal.
History: The collection was begun in 1975.
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Open: on weekends by appointment.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: about 80 instruments, including 50 violins, pochettes, and patented variations; about 15 transverse flutes from the end of the 18th c.; and about 15 flageolets, England and France.
History: The collection was acquired through London auctions, from about 1975.
Services: photos by special request.
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Open: by appointment.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: 4 grand pianos by: Johann David Schiedmayer, Nürnberg; Johann Jacob Könnicke, Wien; Schöfstoss Walter's Stiefsohn, Wien; Jean Baptiste Streicher u. Sohn, Wien; Wien; C. Bechstein, Berlin, 1865.
History: The pianos were acquired during the last thirty years; some have been restored by the owner.
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Collection: about 7 tranverse flutes (including: Thibouville ainé, Paris, ca. 1840; J.H. Zimmermann, Leipzig, ca. 1900; G.H. Hüller, Schöneck, Vogtland; bass flute, E.Sandner, Kassel; military fife, ca. 1930; piccolo); 2 modern recorders; 16 folk flutes (including: czakan, 3 recorder-types, China, India, Mallorca; single, and double dvojnices, Yugoslavia; xistu, China; swanee-pipe, London; 2 bird flutes; ocarina) six "brass" instruments (including shofar; buccina, copy of one in a museum in Rome; antelope horn, South Africa; 2 fanfare trumpets in E, ca. 1933, 1935; signal horn in C, pre-1914; Muschelhorn, Tibet); six stringed instruments (mandolin, pre-1914; lute-guitar, about 1910; tamburiza, Serajevo, ca. 1941; balalaika, accord-zither, ca. 1910; fiddle, North Africa, 1960; violin, pre-1920, ); piano, pre-1914; electronic organ, Thomas le Grand, no. 1151; idiophones (jews harp, triangle, castanettes); some organ pipes.
History: An electrical engineer interested in acoustics, the collector plays flute. Flutes are the focus of the collection; other types of instruments have been added when travelling and by gift.
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History: acquired at auction in 1988; previously owned by restorer Herr Senftleben, who received this instrument in payment from a Swedish radio station for restoring a second instrument by the same maker.
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Primary responsibility: Direktor; wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Hauptkustos für Kulturgeschichte.
Open: 10-17, Tu-Su in summer; 10-16, Tu-Su in winter.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: about 77 musical instruments in all, found in the stadgeschichtlichen Abteilung [City History Department] and in the Spielzeug Abteilung [Toys Department] include: wind and stringed instruments, hurdygurdies, harmoniums, keyboard instruments, percussion instruments and musical clocks, and also in the merchant's Jenisch-Haus Museum in Hamburg's Klein Flottbek district. [ See also entry for Hamburg Klein Flottbek: Jenisch-Haus Museum.]
German.. built since around 1900. Contain mostly N.German-made things. Several instrus from rural.. farmer area. Division by area of study doesn't exist. ca. 77 instrs.
Services: library and photo services.
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Primary responsibility: Wissinschaftlicher Mitarbeitern für Afrika; Amerika; Süd- und Ostasien; Indonesien und Südsee; Euasien. Museumspädagogik.
Open: 10-17 T-Su.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: instruments of all types from most parts of the world are part of cultural and geographic departments. Total number of instruments unavailable.
History: The ethnographic collections were begun by the Society for Natural Sciences about 1850. The museum was founded in 1879; at which time musical instruments from extra-European peoples began to be collected. European folk musical instruments have been collected since 1904.
Services: The permanent museum exhibitions include musical instruments. Periodically special exhibitions of musical instruments are mounted. Guided tours and educational services discuss instruments; taped recordings of extra-European music are presented during lectures on ethnographic subjects. Library, including photographic documents. Descriptive card catalogue of Eurasian instruments begun before WW II, but not continued afterwards. Musical instruments in other departments documented in general museum catalogue.
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Governing organization: Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Norddeutsches Landesmuseum.
Primary responsibility: Direktor; wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Hauptkustos für Kulturgesichte.
Open: 14-17 M-Sa, 11-17 Su, April-October; 13-16 M-Sa, 11-16 Su, November-March.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: keyboards, square piano, phonola, musical clocks, 17th-20th c.
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Primary responsibility: Direktor; Verwalter [curator].
Open: 10-16 Tu-F, Su; 10-13 Sa.
Information sent: 1977.
Collection: 300 European art and folk music instruments.
History: Founded in 1839; first opened ca. 1900.
Services: permanent exhibition; guided tours and educational services; recorded performances of folk music instruments, lectures in conjunction with outside organisations; concerts; library including books on the history of music and musical instruments, early discs and cylinders; photo collection.
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Primary responsibility: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter für Musikinstrumente; Abteilungsleiter der Abteilungen Ostasien, u. der Mittelalterliche Kunst.
Open: 10-18 h., Tu-Su.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: about 250 instruments (of which there are 25 extra-European instruments in the Ostasien Abteilung and the Mittelalter Abteilung). Important instruments include: 11 stringed and plucked instruments by Joachim Tielke, and 17 keyboard instruments by such makers as Rossi, Celestini, Haas, Krogmann and Zell.
History: The collection was founded by Friedrich Chrysander, Hans von Bülow and Johannes Brahms. The Stiftung "Hamburger Jugendmusikzentrum" was created through the efforts of Gerd Albrecht, Generalmusikdirektor, Hamburg Oper.
Services: permanent exhibition; guided tours, lectures, and educational services; recorded folk-musical instruments performances; concerts; library includes sound recordings.
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Governing organization: Stadt Hannover.
Primary responsibility: Direktor; Verwaltungsleiter [administration director];
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Oberkustos für Volkskunde und Kulturgeschichte.
Open: 10-20 Tu, 10-16 W-F, 10-18 Sa-Su. Closed M, 1 Jan., Good Friday, Easter, 1 May, Pentecost Su, 3 Oct., 24, 25, 31 Dec.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: Military-, folk-, and a few art musical instruments.
History: The museum was founded in 1901 and opened in 1903 as the Vaterländisches Museum. In 1937 the collections were decentralized under the name Niedersächsisches Volkstumsmuseum. In 1943 the town and museum were burned. In 1950 under the provisional name of Niedersächsisches Heimatmuseum, the work of rebuilding the museum began. In 1966 the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer opened with its three departments: Stadtgeschichte [City History], Landesgeschichte [Local or Area History], Volkskunde [Folk Traditions]. In 1990 for the 750th anniversary of the City of Hannover, a large part of the collections were reinstalled.
Primary responsibility: Fernsehmeister Peter Georg Schuknecht
Open: by appointment.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: about 600 instruments including: mechanical musical instruments, fair organs, music boxes, musical androids and musical jewelry boxes.
Services: tours, lectures, sale of recordings and cassettes
Publications: [Reprints of barrel organ catalogues.]
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Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: by appointment.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: 38 art musical instruments from Southern and Central Germany and Austria. The instruments originally belonged to the court musicians or to the Zisterzienserinnenkloster Kirchheim" which was acquired during the 1803 period of secularization.
History: In the middle of the 19th century the musical instruments were deposited with the Sammlungen. In 1980 the musical scores and library were sold to the state of Bavaria; they are now part of the Augsburg University Library.
Services: library with scores and sheet music.
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Governing organization: Museum Bochum, Kortumstrasse 147, D 44787 Bochum.
Municipal art museum. Tel.: (0234) 910-2238.
Primary responsibility: Direktor; Kustos.
Open: May through Oct.: 9-15 Tu, 13-19 W-F, 11-18 Sa-Su.
Nov. through Apr.: 11-17 Tu-F, 10-17 Sa-Su.
Information sent: 1992.
Collection: about 1500 art, folk, and ethnographic instruments, originals and copies of historic instruments, as well as contemporary instruments.
History: Hans Grumbt (Dresden 1898-1989 Bochum), a 'cellist and viola da gamba player (student of August Wenzinger), founded an ensemble for early music in Bochum in 1930. Soon his need for playable historic art musical instruments led him to began a systematic collection of instruments, music, books, and musical iconography. The first instruments were a guitar by Johann Georg Stauffer, his grandfather, and a small family collection of fiddles.
During WW II the more valuable instruments were stored in Bad Schandau; in 1949 they were returned to Bochum. As 'cellist in the Bochum orchestra, Grumbt knew Hindemith. From just after the war until his retirement in 1962, Grumbt played early music. After his retirement he and his wife devoted the remainder of their lives to collecting.
In 1970 the Grumbts donated their collection to the Museum Bochum, and began adding folk and ethnographic instruments to it. Their aim was to create a systematic collection of musical instruments from the world over, both old and contemporary, original and copies, with all types and forms represented.
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Open: by appointment.
Information sent: 1977.
Collection: Museum of music history and musical instruments.
Services: Library.
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Governing organization: Stadt Heidelberg.
Primary responsibility: Direktor der Museum.
Open: 10-17 M-Su, 10-21 W.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: 5 keyboard instruments: clavichord, Germany, ca. 1770; square piano, Johann Christoph Jeckel, Worms, 1785; 3 grand pianos: Louis Dulcken, München, ca. 1790; Erard Frères, Paris, 1830; Mand- Ollerich, Koblenz, 1901.
History: Privately established in 1810/1811 by the priest Charles de Graimberg. In 1838 its administration was transferred to the Heidelberger Schloss, in 1879 to the Stadteidelberg. In 1906 it moved to the 18th c. Palais Morass. The museum features the art and culture of the Kurpfalz (the Palatinate) in collections of paintings, prints and drawings, decorative arts, Frankenthaler porcelain, and the archaeology of the Neckar valley.
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Information sent: 1977.
Collection: about 100 instruments, primarly of African, Asian and Oceanian origin.
History: Instruments were acquired with the ethnographic collections. A special exhibition of "Musical Instruments of Asia, Africa, and the South Seas" was presented in 1962.
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Primary responsibility: Direktorin.
Open: 10-12, 14-16 Tu-Su.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: about 150 instruments used and some made by herdsmen and shepherds, including flutes, bagpipes, fiddles and horns from Europe, Asia and Africa.
History: The museum was founded in 1930; in 1932 Dr. Konrad Hörmann greatly enlarged the collection with a bequest. The museum is devoted to the history of herdsmen and shepherds worldwide as well as from Germany. The museum is divided into three parts: Heimatmuseum [domestic museum], Deutsches Hirtenmuseum, and Handwerksmuseum [crafts].
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Governing organization: Idstedt-Stiftung, Flensburger Str. 7, D 24837 Schleswig.
Primary responsibility: Geschäftsführer.
Open: Apr. through Sept.: 8-18 daily; closed M.
Oct. through Mar.: 9-17 daily; closed Su, M.
Information sent: 1992.
Collection: several signal horns and trumpets included in a collection of armaments and militaria.
History: The museum documents the history of the Schleswig-Holstein rebellion, 1848-1851; a battle was fought near Idstedt on 25 July 1850. The musical instruments used during this period are but a small part of the collection.
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History: the nucleus of the collection is from Frauenkirche in Ingolstadt.
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Open: daily 8.45-16.30; Faschingssontag 8.45-12.
Closed every M., and Tues before Lent, Good Friday, 1 November, 24, 25, 31 Dec.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: only musical instruments associated with German military and in particular with the Bavarian army from the 17th c. to date. Concerning instruments from other lands stuff taken as booty war trophies. About 350 instruments, particularly unusal are the wind instruments and drums from the 17th and 18th c. as well as a serpent and an ophicleide. The museum also includes a collection of musicians' uniforms of the 19th and 20th c., and related materials such as photos, documents, and military recordings.
They are building, moreover, in cooperation with the German society for military music an archive on German military music. The archive is entrusted to Herr Wolfgang Gaumert.
History: The Bavarian Army Museum was founded in 1879. Musical instruments have been collected since this time. The museum was originally in München, but the building was destroyed during WW II and suffered losses to its collections. In 1969 the collection was taken to Ingolstadt because of its old tradition as a military fortress. The museum was reopened in 1972.
Services: occasional concerts of military music including from the USA and Russia; and occasionally small exhibits on the theme of military music. In the Bavarian Army Library attached to the museum is a section on the theme of military music. Photos can be ordered.
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Open: 1994
Collection: destroyed in the WW II.
History: includes instruments from the W. Danckert Collection.
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Governing organization: Universität Kiel.
Primary responsibility: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiterin.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: Ethnic musical instruments included in ethnographic collections from the South Seas, East Asia, and Africa.
History: The museum was founded in 1884.
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Primary responsibility: Restaurator.
Open: 10-17 daily; 10-20 Th.
Information sent: 1990
Collection: about 380 European art and folk instruments, some shown in the permanent general exhibitions. Others maintained in a study collection.
History: The museum was founded in 1888. The musical instrument collection, established in 1942, includes the Kaiser Collection.
Services: permanent exhibition; guided tours; photographic service; photos and slides on sale; library including scores, photo collections and iconographic material; restorer for musical instruments.
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Governing organization: Universität zu Köln
Primary responsibility: Direktor des Musikwissenschaftlichen Instituts.
Open: 9-17 M-F.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: about 180 musical instruments: 40 stringed, 30 brass, 40 keyboards;
6 organs; 10 drums; 20 extra-European instruments; about 30 keyboard-mechanisms models.
History: The collection was founded in the mid-1920s by Prof. Dr. Th. Kroyer, after the Köln collection of Wilhelm Heyer went to Leipzig. It was created from gifts, not from purchases, and includes instruments from 1750 to the present.
Services: library with organological and iconographical collections, and recordings.
Publications: [A catalogue is in preparation.]
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Primary responsibilities: Abetilungsleiter für: Ozeanien; Afrika; Indonesien; Amerika.
Open: 10-17 Tu-Su; 10-20 on 1st Th each month;
closed Mondays, 1 Jan., Shrove Tuesday, Shrovetide, 24 and 25 Dec.
Information sent: 1992
Collection: 1452 instruments: including 570 aerophones; 336 idiophones;
343 membranophones; 133 cordophones. 65 from East Asia; 66 India; 15 North-, West-, Central Asia; 126 America; 14 Europe; 215 Indonesia; 525 South Seas;
83 Australia; 443 Africa.
The museum's holdings in general include objects from Oceanian, African, North American Indian, Pre-Columbian, Indonesian, Khmer, Thai, and Ancient Egyptian cultures.
Publications: Ethnologica
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Open: by appointment for the instruments which are not on display.
Museum hours: 10-17 Tu-Th, 10-16 F-Su. Monday closed.
Information sent: 1994.
History: Museum founded in 1870 by the Apothecary Ludwig Leiner as the Konstanz Kunst- und Kulturgeschichtliches Museum des Bodenseegebiets. The building is the medieval butchers' guildhouse.
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Primary responsibility: Leiter.
Open: 9-12, 14-17 Tu-F; 9-12, 14-16 Sa; 9-12 Su. Closed M.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: 14 bells, ca. 12th to the 20th centuries, from Querfurt and Nebra regions.
History: The museum opened in 1932; it closed in 1945, and reopened in 1954. It evolved out of the original bell-casting workshop founded in 1790 by the Glockengiessermeister Ulrich, and operated until 1911.
Services: tours, conservation.
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Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig, Täubschenweg 2c, D-04103 Leipzig. Tels.: (041) 29 46 58. 28 21 08.
must yet ask them if they will screen potential visitors.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: 16 woodwind instruments: 5 19th c. German bassoons by Werner, Wiesner, Schadenberg, Heckel, anon.; 2 19th c. French bassoons by Savary, Triebert; 3 19th c. clarinets: in D, Kruspe; in C, in A-sharp, both anon.; 4 20th c. German bassoons, Kohlert, Otto Mönning, Sonora; Buffet, France; and 2 copies: a Denner-style bass dulcian; a Haka-style fagott.
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Governing organization: Ministerium für Kunst und Wissenschaft des Landes Sachsen
Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: 9.30-17.30 Tu-F; 10-16 Sa; 9-13 Su.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: around 300 extra-European musical instruments. The collection is uncatalogued and unnumbered.
History: The museum was founded in 1869 by a committee chaired by Dr. Obst. It became a Verein [association] in 1872. The Museum für Völkerkunde opened in 1874. It became the property of the city of Leipzig in 1895. In 1954 it was transferred to the central government. Since 1991 it has been governed by the Ministerium für Kunst und Wissenschaft des Landes Sachsen. The collection includes that of Eduard Wagner.
Services: permanent and temporary exhibitions, guided tours, ethnographic lectures. Library, archives, photograph collections, sale of photos and publications.
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Primary responsibility: Leiter.
Open: 15-18 Tu-Th; 10-15 Sa; 10-13 F, Su.
Information sent: 1977.
Collection: about 3000 instruments: 2400 are European art instruments; 330 folk; 14 Africa; 170 Asia; 4 America; 6 Australia and Oceania.
History: In 1926 the Musikhistorisches Museum Wilhelm Heyer, Köln, was purchased by the state of Saxony with F. Hinrichsen and moved to the Karl-Marx-Universität, Leipzig. In 1927, Heyer collections other than instruments (music; books; autographs, etc.) were sold at auction. During WW II the Universität collection was transferred to the Grassi-Museum where about forty percent was destroyed. The Musikinstrumenten-Museum was established in 1954 at the the Karl-Marx-Universität, Leipzig. The following major private collections are now part of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum:
Wilhelm Heyer ( - ), Köln. Heyer began collecting in Kön. The Musikhistorisches Museum Wilhelm Heyer was opened there in 1913. Containing some 2600 instruments, it included [brief description: characteristics / types of instruments:
Heyer's collection included his own and four other private collections: the third Leipzig collection of Paul deWit ( see Berlin. Musikinstrumenten-Museum, SIMPK for the first two deWit collections); most of the 1908 Baron Alessandro Kraus Museum, Florence; the piano collection of the firm Rudolf Ibach, Barmen; and that of Ernst Praetorius.
Alessandro Kraus, Firenze, collected instruments.
Paul de Wit ( - ), Leipzig. His third collection was acquired by Heyer in. (His first two collections were sold in 1888 and 1890 to the Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin).
Rudolf Ibach Piano Firm, Barmen, founded in 1794; began a collection of historic keyboards, acquired by Heyer.
Ernst Praetorius ( - ) Collection.
Services: permanent and temporary exhibitions; photography. Guided tours each Sunday; other tours by arrangement. Three or four concerts, radio programs and lectures annually on and about the historic instruments. Library (part of the University's Institute of Musicology); iconography collection; sound archives.
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Collection: contains 70 instruments including barrel organs including by Giuseppe Toja, carried on the back once in the possession of Bacigalupos who brought it from Italy. There are also hgh from the Firma Bacigalupo from Berlin and from Garioli & Cie, Paris, barrel organs with tinpipes from Alsace [Elsass], moreover from Waldkirch by Andreas Ruth, by Sabas Hoche & Söne from Ednkoben/Pfalz, and the Bacigalupo Brothers [heregestellte: produced or placed] in Mexico. Strong points coin operated music automats ffrom Firm Polyphon; orchestercases from Frima Hupfeld with drums tringles and hammered works, original Lochmann etc.
Upright instruments with punched disks (Papplatten by Paul Ehrlich
Keyboard instruments incl. a unique harmonium with sprung keys by Philipp de Ponti, an electric piano from the Firma Welte-Mignon about 1900 from the posession of the Bavarian princely family Wittelsbach; Musical clocks, musical ...
A specialty of the collection is that for the number of instruments have many 400 plates, cylinders, and rolls.
History: Collection given to the Stadtmuseum in 1989 by Friedrich Wilhelm Kalina, b. East Prussia [Poland] and he lived from 1950 to his death in 1992 in Lindau. Shortly after the war he purchased a photo album that let sound a mechanical musical melody of instruments that produced musical melodies
A barrel organ from the firm ... followed. Further devices followed. Kalina cleaned and repaired many. Purchased
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Primary responsibility: Collection of Karl Fischer; H. Buschmann Direktor.
Open: 11-17 daily, Apr.-Oct., and by appointment almost any other time.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: about 80 instruments on display, and a collection of some 2500 Welte artists reproduction rolls. 2000 other sound carriers. There is also a private collection of some 32 Automaten-Varieté or mechanical instruments; chits to play them can be purchased. The collection was opened in 1989.
History: The main part of the collection was formed by Karl Fischer. The museum was opened in August, 1985 in a castle built in 1365 (The castle also includes a torture-chamber museum opened the same year).
Services: "Candlelight Champagne": silent films series accompanied by organ music; little shows and songs nightclub; concerts in the winter.
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Recordings: on LP, CD, MC, including two deutscher Schallplattenpreis, 1987, 1988.
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Open: by appointment.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: around 900 Western art musical instruments, both original and reproductions, of types not in current use today. Of particular interest are a collection of hurdy gurdies dating from the 18th c., and a collection of European bagpipes.
History: Kurt Reichmann founded the museum in 1990. He donated most of the instruments and set up an exhibition. More than 35 private collectors have loaned instruments long term. The collection is intended to document the development of musical instruments.
Services: occasional concerts with historic instruments, lectures, courses.
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Governing organization: Stadt Löbau
Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Information sent: 1994.
Collection: individual flutes guitars, zithers, a destroyed glass armonica, a giraffe piano, Ernst Rosenkkranz, Dresden, before 1829; clavichord 1803, piano, A. Föster
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Primary responsibility: Direktorin.
Open: 9.30-18.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: Musical instruments used by street performers, puppeteers, or their orchestra. 25 barrel organs, 3 concert organs, 12 mechanical instruments from China, India, Tibet, Africa and Europe; drums, flutes, violins, lutes, bagpipe, harmonica, xylophone, devil's violin, etc. Several taped recordings used by a marionettist in 1930s Germany.
History: Fritz Fey, Jr., son of the well-known marionettist Fritz Fey, Sr., has collected objects related to puppet theaters. Fritz and Ingeborg Fey and their ensemble have presented puppet theater performances for young and old from Tuesday through Sunday since 1977. In 1982 Herr Fey, Jr. opened his puppet-theater museum. Housed in 3 historic buildings, there are rotating temporary exhibitions of theater figures and related musical instruments from Europe, Asia and Africa.
Services: exhibitions, guided tours, marionnette theater.
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Open: 10-16 (to 17 in summer), Tu-Su; M closed.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: about 120 instruments, primarily of Lübeck origin, including cornetti, serpents, trumpets, bowed strings.
History: Founded 1915.
Services: permanent exhibition; catalogue and photographs for sale.
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Primary responsibility: Konservator.
Open: [need hrs.]
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: primarily mechanical musical instruments and harmoniums, including: organ for silent films, Welte; piano, Welte-Ibach; piano melodico; table organ; phonola, orchestrion; and a collection of 200 player rolls; barrel organ; 3 polyphons with discs; herophon with discs; 40 harmoniums dating from about 1845 to 1930.
History: The collection was formed between 1982 and 1989; in 1988 Wulf Brandes placed his harmonium collection on loan as well. Part of the collection is that of Jan Brauers; a larger portion of Brauer's collection can be seen in the Museum mechanischer Musikinstrumente Bruchsal.
Services: media library; picture archive, general archive. The museum built an auditorium to house the Welte silent-film organ where it is played, as is the polyphon.
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Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: 9-12, 13-17 daily.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: 2567 musical instruments of all kinds: 2167 from Europe; 276 from Asia; 80 from Africa; 42 from America; 2 from Australia.
History: The museum was founded in 1883, opened in 1886, and the building restored 1986-1988. The building is protected as a national landmark.
Services: quarterly special concerts and lectures, guided tours; library with 1600 volumes; brochures, archive with documents and photographs,; sale of postcards publications souvenirs.
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Primary responsibility: Leiter des Musikgeschichtliche Abteilung.
Open: 9-17, T-Su.
Information sent: 1977
Collection: 88 instruments: 60 are European art musical instruments, mostly winds; 28 folk musical instruments.
History: founded about 1939, opened 1947. The collection is formed around that of Ludwig Bechstein from the Museum des Hennebergischen altertumforschenden Vereins.
Services: library including books, manuscripts, scores, iconographic and photographic material, recordings.
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Governing organization: Museumsgesellschaft.
Primary responsibility: 1. Vorsitzender Geigenbaumeister.
Open: 10-12, 14-17 Su-F; 10-12 Sa., holidays.
Information sent: 1977, 1991.
Collection: about 50 stringed instruments of European origin.
History: Founded in 1929; located at the present address since 1959.
Services: temporary exhibitions between 15 December and 30 March; and between 15 May and 30 September; permanent exhibition all year; sale of photos, slides and publications.
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Primary responsibility: Landesconservator, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum.
Open: Musikinstrumentenmuseum: 10-17 daily, and 10 - 20.30 M, W. Closed: Carnival / Shrove Sunday, Shrove Tuesday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, 1 May, Whitsunday, 1 November, 24, 25 December.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: 305 European art musical instruments, the winds are particularly fine; 35 European folk musical instruments.
History: Founded in 1855, first opened in 1881. Much of the collection (about 200 instruments) is on loan to the: Musikinstrumentenmuseum Münchner Stadtmuseum, München.
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Information sent: 1994.
Collection: about 35 instruments: hunting-call instruments, hunting horns of varous materials, signal horns
History: Basis of the instrument collection due to Theodor Mantel beginning in 1933, Stadtrat a.D. From 1934 the first scientific work and later museum director Dr. Karl Sälzle hired to inventory the collection and in 1937-38 it was placed in a wing of the Nymphenburgpalais; in 1938 officially opened as the German hunting and fishing museum. During WII in 1944 for protection placed in Linderhof castle and Schloss Ast near Landshut. In 1966 it was placed in present location in former Augustinian church in Munich. Second museum Director Hort Popp (1976-1989) strengthened the collection. Director since 1989 Bernd E. Ergert
Services: special exhibitions, including 1994 Rund um Horn
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Open: 9-17 daily.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: about 1400 musical instruments of all kinds, primarily European from the 16th to the 20th c., including keyboard, wind, string and percussion instruments; 150 automatic instruments, talking machnies and electronic instruments. Also, African, Asian, and South American instruments, as well as about 450 related objects: music, models, paintings, etc.
History: The museum was founded and first opened in 1906. It has been located in the present building since 1925. Closed between 1944 and 1948, the department of musical instruments was reinstated in 1948, and reopened in 1950.
Services: about 650 musical instruments on permanent display; guided tours, occasional lectures, concerts, photographs and slides on sale; museum library; collection of photographs and photographic studio; conservation and restoration workshop.
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Primary responsibility: Leiter des Musikinstrumentenmuseums.
Open: 10-17 daily, and 10 - 20.30 M, W. Closed: Carnival/Shrove Sunday, Shrove Tuesday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, 1 May, Whitsunday, 1 November, 24, 25 December.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: about 3000 instruments from throughout the world. The exhibition includes musical instruments from the Neuner and Colt collections; since 1983 about 200 instruments from the Bavarian Nationalmuseum; and since 1985/87 about 20 instruments from the Colt piano collection, and a large exhibition of non-European instruments including a gamelan orchestra podium. The European portion of the exhibition includes recorders by Denner and Rippert; transverse flutes by Böhm; 12 early silver trumpets; bowed and plucked string instruments; pianos by Stein, Pfister and others.
History:
Services: video film showing how European and extra-European instrs are played. Tours and courses on request. Library and record library not open.
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Primary responsibility: Direktor.
Open: closed.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: extra-European musical instruments, the oldest of which are 18th or 19th c., in the following departments: Athiopien, Ostafrika, Zentralasien; Afrika; Latinamerika; Nordamerika; Arktische Völker; Ozeanien, Indonesien; Orient; Ost- und Zentralasien.
Publications: Various museum publications include information about the museum's musical instruments.
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Governing organization: Westfälisches Amt für Denkmalpflege
Collection: harpsichord, Jan Ruckers, the Younger, 1640; grand pianos by Brodman, Vienna, 1828; Conrad Graf, ca. 1835; square piano by Julis Bluthner, ca. 1860; Erard, ca. 1880
Recordings: [yes]
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Information sent: 1994.
Collection: harp, Nadermann, 1774; giraffe-piano, Heinrich Janssen, Wien, ca. 1830; square piano, Blüthner, transverse flute, M. Kneer, Münster, 1st quarter 19th c.
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Open: 1994.
Collection: 33 musical instruments, among which are military instruments, several wind and string instruments. Especially noteworthy is a serinette, giraffe piano and a Schellenbaum [jingling johnny].
Archive: music and books from the Neuburg composer Paul Winter. A larger part of his bequest is at the Staatsbibliothek, München.
History: Founded in 1833; its collections come from bequests and purchases from the Verein. A museum is planned to open.
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Principal staff: Hauptconservator; Conservator.
Open: Tu-Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sa-Sun. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Information sent: 1993.
Collection: Approximately 2300 instruments in all (1600 art-musical instruments; 460 folk instruments; 60 African; 140 Asian; 5 American; 12 Australia and Oceania. There are also many musical accessories. The collection of historical pianofortes is probably the most extensive in existence. The collection of wind instruments made in Nürnberg is outstanding.
History: The museum was founded in 1856. In 1962, the Rück Collection of 1487 historic musical instruments from the collection of Dr. H.C. Ulrich Rück, 1882-1962, was added to some 300 musical instruments already owned by the museum. 1 Jan. 1963 the Abteilung [Department of] Musikinstrumente was created. Between 1963 and 1965 another 51 instruments from the Rück collection were added. In 1968 the collection was further enlarged by the purchase of the Klavierhistorische Sammlung Neupert, which was first exhibited in 1969. The Will Jansen Collection of bassoons was acquired.
The collection of 297 instruments documents the history of stringed keyboard instruments. The Neupert Collection was begun by Johann Christoph Neupert, 1842-1921, In 1938 it was exhibited in Nürnberg; the same year about twenty-five instruments were sold to the Händel-Haus, Halle. In 1943 the collection of stringed-keyboard instruments was acquired by Neupert from the estate of the physicist H. von Helmholtz. From 1946 until its purchase by the Germanisches Museum in 1968, the Neupert Collection was exhibited in Bamberg.
The Sammlung historischer Musikinstrumente Dr. h.c. Ulrich Rück was begun by Wilhelm Rück (1849-1912) in Nürnberg and continued by his sons Hans (1876-1940) and Dr. Ulrich Rück (1882-1962). It contains 1538 instruments. The collection was acquired in two parts: 1487 instruments were purchased in 1962; between 1963 and 1965 another part containing 51 instruments were donated by Ir. Otto Bess.
Sammlung Will Jansen (1906-1981), Nieuw Loosdrecht, Holland, a collection of 36 bassoons, was purchased.
Services: technical drawings, photographs including xrays, recordings, library including musical mss; the exhibition has audiovision; guided tours are by appointment; classes; concerts, and radio programs during which instruments from the collection are played.
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Open: 9-17, Tu-Su. Closed February.
Information sent: 1989, 1994.
Collection: 62 instruments from Passau, the state of Bavaria, and Upper Austria, including: 45 wind instruments, 7 stringed instruments, 5 keyboard instruments, 5 struck instruments.
History: The museum was founded in 1905 as the Stadtmuseum; it was reopened as the Oerhausmuseum in 1952. The museum collects instruments from Passau makers from the 18th to the 20th c., including winds and strings from the Firma Heidegger, Heidegger und Hornsteiner; clarinets and flutes from the Firma [Schifterer], a bassett horn by A. Mayerhofer, 1760; portativ organ, 1770;
Services: permanent exhibition.
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Information sent: 1994.
Collection: Potsdam Museum has only a few historic musical instruments from the 18th adn 19th c., including a trumpet [good condition, restored] ventil-valve system with mute patented in 1838 by Wilhelm Wiebrecht
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Open: musical instruments not available to the public.
Information sent: 1994
Collection: 4 instruments.
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Governing organization: Museen Der Stadt Regensburg. [Same address.]
Primary responsibility: Wissenschaftlisher Mitarbeiter für Kulturgeschichte.
Open: 10-13, 14-17 F-Sa; 10-13 Su.
Information sent: 1977.
Collection: about 50 instruments: 37 art musical instruments, including: bowed and plucked stringed instruments by makers from Regensburg, Eastern Bavaria and Bohemia, 18th and 19th c. pianos, a clavichord by Christ. Friedrich Schmahl, ca. 1805, a positiv organ by Stephan Cuntz, Nürnberg, 1627; 13 folk instruments made in Regensburg and Eastern Bavaria from the 18th to the 20th c. including zithers, guitars, and hurdygurdies.
History: Founded in 1928; first opened 1949. The collections contain objects from the Historical Society founded in 1831, and from the municipality. The two collections were consolidated in 1928; since then, they have been enlarged with objects from Regensburg and Eastern Bavaria.
Services: permanent exhibition in the Abteilung Kulturgeschichte [Department of Cultural History]; Sunday organ concerts; library, archives, photograph studio.
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Primary responsibility: Wisseschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin [scientific collaborator]
Open: 10-17 Tu-Su.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: 37 keyboard, wind and brass instruments; including piccolo, Friedrich G.A. Kirst, Potsdam, ca. 1785; oboe, Johann Fr. Floth, Dresden, 1801; a pipe from a bagpipe, 15th c., found in excavations of the old city; tuba, C.W. Moritz, Berlin, ca. 1850, and a cornet, both from the Rostocker Bürgergarde; a few mechanical musical instruments.
History: The musical instrument collection is part of the History Department; it is exhibited to illustrate the daily life and culture of the Rostock burgers. Part of this collection is from the large, multifarious Vereins für Rostocks Altertümer founded in 1883. This association scientifically developed the collection through excavations, research and conservation. In 1936 the antiquity collection was acquired by the Stadtische Museum Rostock. Only a few musical instruments were added to the museum after 1945.
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Primary responsibility: Siegfried Wendel, Museumsleiter (and founder).
Open: 10-22 daily, March-November.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: about 300 instruments, including music boxes, musical clocks, barrel organs, player pianos, orchestrions, street and fairground organs; grammophones.
History: The museum was opened in 1969 in a house that partially derives from the 15th c. It was the first museum in Germany dedicated to automatic musical instruments. The museum's purpose is to entertain and educate its visitors about mechanical musical instruments, their technology and builders, and illustrate their social roles and how they were used. Many instruments are demonstrated.
Services: permanent exhibition, tours, demonstrations, sales desk; restoration.
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Primary responsibility: Kustos
Collection: about 20 instruments from the court chapel from the 18th and 19th c.; about 40 instruments from the military wind chapel, about 1850.
History: First mention of a ducal court chapel is in 1634. Since the 18th c. the court chapel of the princely residence castle Heidecksburg of prince of Schwerzburg, Rodolstadt, until 1918.
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Open: daily Feb-Nov.
Collection: about 70 musical instruments from the 18th and 19th c., including oboes, pommer, bassoon, clarinets, recorder, flageolets zinken, trumpets, trombones, horns, kettle and side drums
History: purchased and building of the collection between 1834 and 1867.
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Collection: about 250 instruments, about 100 folk-type harmonicas (accordeon-type), wind instruments from 1890-1970, woodwind instruments ca. 1850-1900; tenor-range trumpet, Martin;
History: since 1980; main points: found in folk music from the area of Franken
Horst Steinmetz, Armin Griebel. Volkmusikinstrumente in Franken Ausstellungskatalog. Münden/ Bad Windsheim, 1983.
A. Griebel, Horst Steinmetz. Zum Tanz aufgespielt! Katalog zu eine Ausstellung in Bamberg. Walkershofen, 1990.
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Primary responsibility: Wolfgang Huter, Geschäftsführer;
For musical instruments: Orgelbaumeister Gotthard Arnold.
Open: 9 to 9 daily.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: 73 instruments, primarily mechanical musical instruments and organs dating from the 19th c. to the 1980s, including: a jingling johnny, several stringed instruments, musical clocks, barrel organs, harmonium, polyphons, walz and symphony orchestrions, dance organs, Steinway grand piano, and Steinway-Welte, jukeboxes, grammophones, player pianos and rolls.
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Open: 10-17 Tu-Su. Closed M.
Information sent: 1993.
Collection: woodwind, brass and keyboard instruments, including: tower trumpet, ca. 1500; large bass dulcian; harpsichord by Harrass, Gross-Breitenbach, ca. 1700; fortepiano, Johann Andreas Stein, Augsburg; organ, from the Schlosskirche, 1724, rebuilt by J. Strobel. Also, mss. principally 18th c. by Stölzel, Freislich, Keiser, etc.
History: The provenance of the instruments is primarily from the Sondershäuser Hofkapelle (princely musicians' collection), via the Conservatorium.
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Collection: expanded as possible; main instruments are alpine musical instruments
History: Efforts were made about 1925 to establish a heimat museum, opened 1930. Already musical instrs. collected and added as the years progressed.
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Primary responsibility: Abteilungsleiter für die: Orient; Asien; Ostasien; Südsee; Amerika; Afrika.
Open: 10-17 Tu-W,F-Su; 10-20 Th.
Information sent: 1989.
Collection: unspecified number of musical instruments, all extra-European.
History: The museum was founded in 1889.
Services: permanent and temporary exhibitions; guided tours and educational services; museum-wide library, iconographic, photographic collections, photography.
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Primary responsibility: Oberkonservator.
Open: 10-17 Tu, Th-Su; 10-19 W. Closed M.
Information sent: 1991, 1994
Collection: about 500 instruments. Its highlights are: keyboard instruments from the 16th through the 20th c., particularly 19th c. pianos; models of keyboard mechanisms; a study collection of 19th c. keyboard instrument building; 19th c. orchestral instruments; woodwind and brass instruments, 1750-1920; mechanical musical instruments, and a study collection of about 800 reproducing rolls for player pianos.
History: The museum contains collections from pre- and early history, antiquities, the provincial Roman, Romanesque and Gothic periods, Schwabian sculpture, European decorative arts, numismatics, costumes and other textiles, folk art, and a royal treasure. It is housed in the medieval palace of the Dukes of Wirtemberg, rebuilt during the renaissance, and again after WW II. The musical instruments collection was founded in 1901 at the Landesgewerbeamt Stuttgart with the acquisition of the collection of the Stuttgart piano maker, Carl August Pfeiffer. In 1966 it was taken over by the Württemburgisches Landesmuseum. Since 1975, the collection has been actively enlarged with purchases. In the summer of 1993 the collection moved into its own building.
The collecting activity that began again in 1975 centers on keyboards of all kinds, orchestra instruments from the 19th c. as well as examples on the theme of music reproduction [radios, record players, etc.]
Services: Sunday Matinèes: 8 performances on historic musical instruments throughout the year.
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Primary responsibility: Amtsrat.
Open: 10-12, 14-17 daily.
Information sent: 1993.
Collection: 19th and 20th c. instruments have been gathered to illustrate the period when musicians traditionally wandered the West Palatinate. Instruments are exhibited in the context of performance, held in playing positions by mannequins.
History: The museum is located in the Lichtenberg Castle, built ca. 1200, burned in 1799, and largely renovated in the 1970s and '80s. This state musician's museum was officially opened in 1984.
Services: exhibitions, concerts.
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Primary responsibility: Werner Oppelt, Museumsverwalter.
Open: 9-18, 1 May - 30 September;
10-12, 14-17, 1 October - 30 April.
Closed: 15 November - 15 December.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: music boxes, musical clocks, and orchestrions.
History: the museum is devoted to the traditional trades and regional crafts of the Black Forest, including watch and clock making, costume, cooperage, ceramics and wood carving.
Services: exhibitions, classes, library, archive, technical drawings, conservation.
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Collection: fortepiano, ca. 1790, trumpet, and grand piano from the 19th c.
History: from private collections became in 1913 the Heimatmuseum Uffenheim.
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Primary responsibility: Udo Thein.
Open: by appointment.
Information sent: 1990
Collection: miniature collection of 16 keyboard instruments on the scale of
1:18; 13 historic piano models, scale of 1:12; private collection of harmoniums and curious keyboard instruments.
History: the museum was opened in Köln in 1984; it was moved to Velbert near Wuppertal in 1990. Since 1982 the collection has been registered in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Services: archive of research on tangenten-Flügels.
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Primary responsibility: Museumleiterin
Open: 15-17 Tu-Th, Sa; 10-13 Su. Closed M, F.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: about 20 mechanical instruments many from the Black Forest including: 2 musical-pipe clocks, one by Ignaz Bruder, ca. 1810, one with automatic figures J.G. Schwab (St. Ma'rgen), ca. 1835; serinette, Mirecourt; bird organ, 1869, and walz orchestrion, ca. 1860, both by Fa. Ignaz Bruder Söhne; large organ, and fair organ (rebuilt by Limonaire Frère), Gebrüder Bruder, both ca. 1890; 3 walz barrel organs, Fa. Wilhelm Bruder Söhne, after 1864, and 2 by Fa. Ignaz Bruder Söhne, ca. 1860/70, and 1880; 26th Moritatenorgel, Otto Bruder, ca. 1969; by Ruth: zither, ca. 1860, walz barrel organ, ca. 1900, Konzertnotenorgel; show organ, Fa. Gavioli & Co., 1902; concert organ, Limonaire Frères, after 1908; barrel organ, Jäger u. Brommer, 1991; orchestrion, Weber-Maesto, 1926; pneumatic violin piano, Weber-Unika, 1917; mechanical piano, Welte-Mignon; tuner's case for church organ builders, Rudolf Kiene.
History: The museum is tripartate: it is a regional museum with folk art, it has a department of sacred art and church history, and it has a collection of organs and orchestrions.
Services: international historic-organ festival and exhibition every 3 years involving private collectors.
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Governing organization: Stadtverwaltung, D 83512 Wasserburg-am-Inn. Tel.: (08071) 1050.
Primary responsibility: Leiter.
Open: 10-12, 13-16, Tu-F; 11-15 Sa-Su, 1 May - 30 September.
13-16, Tu-F; 10-12 Sa-Su, 1 October - 30 April.
Closed: every M, holidays, and from 16 December - 31 January.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: 21 instruments; from the 18th and 19th c.: kettle drum, and pair of sticks; 4 drums; 4 trumpets; horn; jingling johnny, late 18th c.; transverse flute, early 19th c.; 2 harps, 2 zithers, 18th/19th c.; virginals, "VK", 1588; clavichord, Wasserburg, and pipe organ, both 18th c.; piano, mid-19th c. Instruments are exhibited in displays featuring: the military; the city-and family-history collection which includes the Renaissance virginals that belonged to the Wasserburger family Surauer (chandlers); from the period of Johann Kaspar Aiblinger, a musician from Wasserburg who later became conductor of the Münchener Hofkapelle [royal-chapel].
History: The museum, founded in 1888, is located in a late gothic burger's house. and includes burger and working-class decorative arts, sculpture from the late gothic- through the twentieth century.
Services: permanent exhibitions; city-sponsored chamber music concerts on the museum's playable instruments.
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Primary responsibility: Leiter.
Information sent: 1991.
Collections: 26 instruments, primarily pianos. The following instruments are found in Weimar house museums:
The following instruments are found in house museums near Weimar:
History: The foundation preserves the houses and collections that belonged to classical German writers including Schiller (since 1847); Goethe (since 1885); Herder; Wieland; members of the Duke's family; Liszt and the Nietzsche Archiv.
Services: exhibitions.
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Primary responsibility: Wissenschaftliches Mitarbeiterin.
Open: 9-17 T-Su.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: Viola da gamba, tenor, Joachim Tielke, Hamburg, ca. 1695; grand piano, Streicher & Sohn, Wien, 1825; hunting horns.
History: The Kunstsammlungen include: the former Grossherzoglisches [grand duke's] Museum, now the Schlossmuseum; the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, now the Kunsthalle; the Rokokomuseum; and Schloss Belvedere. The collections include paintings, drawings and graphics, sculpture, decorative arts, and carriages.
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Primary responsibility: Leiter.
Information sent: 1977.
Collection: musical instruments are included among collections of religious scultures from the Gothic through the Baroque periods; decorative arts; drawings, paintings and prints from the 18th to the 20th c.; numismatics; arms; glass painting; toys; folk art from the 19th and 19th c.
History: founded 1854.
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Open: 2-5 W, and by appointment for groups.
Information sent: guitar, Scherzithers, grammophone, various woodwind and brass instruments
Collection: 1809 according to a chronicle, Turkish music is mentioned.
History: Heimatmuseum founded in 1931 from the former burgermeister Joseph Zeller. Until 1957 the museum was in the old postoffice. In 1968 it moved into the fire station.
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Open: by appointment only.
Information sent: 1993.
Collection: about 150 wind instruments: 80 are bassoons and contrabassoons, about 50 are other woodwind and brass, and about 20 are extra-European in origin.
History: The firm was founded in 1831; the collection begun at the end of the 19th c.
Services: reference library including a small collection of historical fingering charts, iconography and photo collections; archives. Restoration workshop is separate.
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Primary responsibility: Direktor; Hauptabteilungsleiter [senior departmental head]
Open: 10-17 daily, 1 April - 31 October. Appointment necessary to see African instruments.
Information sent: 1990.
Collection: 12 instruments: drum, Uganda; bowed harp, West Africa; 2 plucked fiddles, 2 long-necked lutes, "tamburin", all Egypt; 2 panpipes, Polynesia; barrel organ, Germany, 1750-1800; 2 Viennese fortepianos: Brodmann, ca. 1810; Lauterer, ca. 1815.
History: The piano was part of the original furnishings of the castle. The Polynesian panpipes were part of Georg Forster's collection [who with his father accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage], given to the museum in 1775 by Fürst. Franz of Anhalt-Dessau. The African instruments were acquired in 1929 from a collection in Zerbst.
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Primary responsibility: Leiterin.
Open: 14-17 Tu, Th; 10-12, 14-17 Sa, Su.
Information sent: 1993.
Collection: zither; two-necked guitar; 3-stringed Narrenbassgeige or bumbass; contrabassoon; stockflute, 13th c.; a series of horns, one of which is traditionally used in Wolfach at Shrovetide; jingles and bells; a drum from the town militia; and a sanza, Africa. In the near future a local instrument maker's collection of brass instruments and tools will be added, and a musical instrument department is planned.
History: The museum includes objects from pre- and early history the early 20th c. and related to mineraolgy, mining, local history and folklore, as well as paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, textiles and costumes including for carnival, and armaments.
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Governing organization: Zweckerverband Fichtelgebirgsmuseum.
Primary responsibility: Leiter.
Open: T-Su.
Information sent: 1977.
Collection: about 25 instruments, 20 of which are art- and 5 folk musical instruments.
History: Founded in 1907; opened 1908. The entire collection is on loan from the Fichtelgebirgsverein and three Upper Franconian cities.
Services: permanent exhibition; library with collection of folklore material and sheet music from earlier bands; archives; iconography and photography collections.
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Primary responsibility: Museumsleiter; Museumseigentümer.
Open: 10-12; 16-18 M-F; 10-13 Sa. Closed Su and holidays.
Information sent: 1991.
Collection: about 22 musical objects: 20 clocks of various sizes with musical works and automata; and 2 orchestrions: Popper Happy Jazz; and Klepeta, Prag.
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Information sent: 1990.
All of its musical instruments have been given to:
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Primary responsibility: Leiter.
Collection: 4 historical instruments: grand piano by M.A. Stein, 1828 from the possession of Clara Wieck-Schumann; physharmonika by Anton Häckel, 1825, posseession fo Friedrich Wiecks; Square piano by E. Rosenkranz, Dresden, ca 1840; piano by Boa'
History: coll. put together since 1909/10 since 1914 part of the King Albert museum, Today the Städtisches Museum, since 1956 was independent in reconstructed birth house of Schumann as a research and memorial with archiv, library museum and chamber music hall
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ALBSTADT
Musikhistorische Sammlung Jehle, Stauffenberg-Schloss, Lautlingen. D 72459 Albstadt.
Municipal musical instrument collection. Tel.: (07431) 16 41; (07431) 72 958.
- Schloss Lautlingen: Die Schenken von Stauffenberg, Musikhistorische Sammlung Jehle. Summary by Walter Salmen. Albstadt: Kultur-und Verkehrsamt [n.d.]
- "Albstadt: Schloss Lautlingen, Musikhistorische Sammlung Jehle." [Brochure]
ALSFELD
Regionalmuseum Alsfeld, Rittergasse 3-5, D 36304 Alsfeld. Regional museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (06631) 4300.
- Mitteilungen des Geschichts- und Museumsvereins, Alsfeld.
APOLDA, Thüringen
Museum Apolda, Glockenmuseum, Bahnhofstrasse 41, D 99510 Apolda.
Bell museum. Tel.: (0620) 521.
- "Der Fuchs als Gänseprediger", Urania, Jena-Lepzig (1956), 19.
- "Ritzzeichnungen auf Glocken, Urania, Jena-Lepzig (1956), 19.
- "Die Bronzeglocke", Urania, Jena-Lepzig (1957), 20.
- "Selbstbildnis eines Glockengiessers von 1337", Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, Köln (1964).
AUGSBURG
Städtische Kunstsammlungen Augsburg, Maximilianmuseum, Philippine-Welser-Str. 24, D 86150 Augsburg. Offices: Maximilianstr. 46, D 86150 Augsburg.
Municipal art museum with musical instruments.
Tel.: (0821) 324 2174 / 324 2171.
BAD KROZINGEN, near FREIBURG
Sammlung alter Tasteninstrumente, Am Schlosspark 7, D 79189 Bad Krotzingen e.V.
BAD SÄCKINGEN
Trompetenmuseum, Trompeterschloss, Postfach 1143, D 79713 Bad Säckingen.
Municipal museum. Tel.: 497761 51311. Fax: 497761 51321.
- Edward H. Tarr. Trompetenmuseum Bad Säckingen. Katalog. Die Trompeten von Säckingen; eine Gesamtschau der Sammlung von E.W. Buser. Bad Säckingen, [1985].
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BAYREUTH
Franz-Liszt-Museum der Stadt Bayreuth, Wahnfriedstrasse 9, D-95444 Bayreuth.
Tel: (0921) 757-2818; 757-2811. Fax: (0921) 757-2822.
BAYREUTH
Stadtmuseum, Kanzleistrasse 1, Postfach 101052, D 95444 Bayreuth.
Municipal museum with one musical instrument.
Tel.: (0921) 25 527. Fax: (021) 25 305.
BAYREUTH
Richard-Wagner-Museum (mit Nationalarchiv und Forschungsstätte der Richard-Wagner-Stiftung), Haus Wahnfried, Richard-Wagner-Str. 48, D-95444 Bayreuth.
Tel: (0921) 757-2811; 757-2816. Fax: (0921) 757-2822.
BERLIN
* Ägyptisches Museum, Staatliche Museen, Schlossstrasse 70, DO-1000 Berlin. National museum of Egyptian art including musical instruments.
- Curt Sachs. Altägyptische Musikinstrumenten. Alte Orient 21. Leipzig: Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1920.
- C. Sachs. Die Musikinstrumente des alten Ägyptens. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Mitteilungen aus der Ägyptischen Sammlung, III.. Berlin: K. Curtius, 1921.
BERLIN
Märkisches Museum und Berliner Heimatmuseum, Am Kölnischen Park 5, D 10179 Berlin. Municipal museum of art and local history. Tel.: (030) 270-2243.
BERLIN
Museum für Völkerkunde Staatliche Museen, der Abteilung Musikethnologie, Arnimallee 23, D-14195 Berlin 33. National museum within the group of Staatliche Museen.
- Bernhard Ankermann, "Die Afrikanishe Musikinstrumente", Berlin: Museum für Völkerkunde: Ethnologisches Notizblatt (1901), III/1: 1-134. [Repr.: Leipzig: Zentralantiquariat, 1976.]
- Curt Sachs. Die Litauischen Musikinstrumente in der kgl. Sammlung für deutsche Volkskunde zu Berlin. Separat-Abdruck aus Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie 23. [Leiden, 1915.]
- C. Sachs. Die Musikinstrumente Indiens und Indonesiens, zugleich eine Einführung in die Instrumentenkunde. Handbuch der kgl. Museen zu Berlin, [Bd. 15]. Berlin: G.Reimer, 1915; 2nd ed., 1923.
- C. Sachs. Die Musikinstrumente Indiens und Indonesiens. Handbücher der Staatlichen ... zu Berlin. 2. Aufl. Berlin, Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1923.
- Kurt Reinhard. Musik exotischer Völker. Berlin, 1951.
- K. Reinhard. Türkische Musik. Berlin: Museum für Völkerkunde, 1962.
- Gerd Koch, Dieter Christensen. Die Musik der Ellis-Inseln. Berlin: Museum für Völkerkunde, 1964.
- K. Reinhard. Klingende Saiten. Musikinstrumente aus drei Kontinenten. Sonderausstellung. Berlin, 1965.
- Ursula Reinhard. Vor seinen Häusern en Wiede ... Volkslieder aus der Süd-Türkei. Berlin, 1965.
- K. Reinhard. Trommeln und Trompeten. Sonderausstellung. Berlin, 1967.
- Kurt Krieger, "Musikinstrumente der Hausa", Baessler-Archiv; Beiträe zur Völkerkunde (1968), 16: 373-430.
- K. u. U. Reinhard. Auf der Fiedel mein ... Volkslieder von der osstürkischen Schwarzmeerküste. Berlin, Museum für Völkerkunde, 1968.
- Günter Hartmann, "Die Materielle Kultur der Xavante, Zentralbrasilian", Baessler-Archiv; Beiträe zur Völkerkunde (1970) 18: 43-70.
- "100 Jahre Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin", Baessler-Archiv, N.F. 21, Berlin, 1973.
- Heide Nixdorff. Tönender Ton. Tongefässflöten und Tonpfeifen aus Europa. Berlin: Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, ca. 1974.
- Musik in Afrika. 20 Beiträge zue Kenntnis aftikanischr Musikklturen (mit 2 C- 90 Cassetten). Hrsg. Artur Simon. Berlin, 1983.
- U. Wegner. Afrikanische Saiteninstrumente. (Mit 1 Cassette). Berlin, 1984.
- U. Reinhard, Tiago de Oliveira Pinto. Sänger und Poeten mit der Laute: Türkishe Äsik und Ozan. (Mit 2 Cassetten). Berlin, 1989.
- T. de Oliveira Pinto. Capoeira, Samba, Candomblé. Bahia Brasilien. Berlin 1990. Includes CD 16.
- Populäre Musik in Afrika. Hrsg. Veit Erlmann. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 1991. also with 2 CDs
BERLIN
Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Staatliches Instituts für Musikforschung. Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Tiergartenstrasse 1, D 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten. National museum of musical instruments.
Tel.: (030) 25 48 11 38. Fax: (030) 248 11 72.
Governing organization: Staatliches Instituts für Musikforschung. Preussischer Kulturbesitz (SIMPK). (National museum within the group of state museums, which in turn, belong to the Foundation for Prussian Cultural Treasures.)
- Paul Simon, "Ein Besuch im Museum de Wit", Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau (1886/87), 7: 249-250.
- "Die Rupf- und Streich-Instrumente im Museum deWit in Leipzig", Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau (1886/87), 7: 331-332, 346-348.
- Oskar Fleischer. Führer durch die Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente. Berlin: A.Haack, 1892.
- "Raum XII. Königliche Sammlung alterthümlicher Musikinstrumente zu Berlin", in Vienna. Internationale Asstellung für Musik- und Theaterwesen, 1892.
- Fach-Katalog ... Abteilung Deutschland und Oesterreich-Ungarn, Wien: Ausstellungs-Commission, 1892, pp. 165-179.
- Catalogue de la collection d'insruments de musique anciens ou curieux formée par C.C. Snoeck. Gand: J. Vuylsteke, 1894.
- [C.C. Snoeck obituary including information about the sale of his first collection and description of some instruments], Zeitschrift der internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft (1899) 1: 31.
- Fleischer, "Die Snoech'sche Musikinstrumentensammlung in der k. Hochschule, Berlin", Sammelbände der internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft (1902) 3: 565-694.
- Führer durch das Kunstgewerbemuseum. 17. Aufl. Berlin: Vereinigg. wissensch. Verleger, 1915.
- Curt Sachs. Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente bei der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin. Beschreibender Katalog. Berlin: Verlag J.Bard, 1922.
- Sachs. Staatliche Musikinstrumentensammlung: kleiner Führer. Berlin: Verlag J. Bard [1922].
- Sachs. Das Klavier. Handbücher des Instrumentenmuseums der staatlichen Hochschule für Musik, 1. Bd. Berlin: Verlag J. Bard, 1923.
- G. Kinsky, "Paul deWit" [obituary], Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft (1925/26) 8: 254-255.
- Arno Werner, "Die alte Musikbibliotek und der Instrumentensammlung an St. Wenzel in Naumburg a.d.S.", Archiv für Musikwissenschaft (1926), 8: 390-415.
- Arno Huth, "Ein javanische Gamelan in das Berliner Instrumenten-Museum", Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft (1930) 12: 444-445.
- [A. Ganse, H.-H. Dräger, K. Reinhard]. Führer durch das Musikinstrumenten-Museum. Abteilung III des Instituts für deutsche Musikforschung. Berlin-Charlottenberg: Fänger, 1939.
- R. Lyr. Un grand Renaisien ... César Snoeck, musicologue et collectionneur d'instruments anciens. Renaix, 1952.
- Alfred Berner. Die Berliner Musikinstrumenten-Sammlung: Einführung mit historischen und technischen Erläuterungen. Berlin, 1952.
- A. Berner, "Das Staatliches Institut für Muikforschung", Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Jahrbuch (1962), pp. 356-368.
- A. Berner. Musikinstrumenten-Sammlung Berlin: eine Übersicht. Berlin [1963].
- A. Berner, "Neuerwerbungen des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung", Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Jahrbuch (1964/65), pp. 274-282.
- Irmgard Otto. Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin. Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung. Ausstellungsverzeichnis mit Personen- und Sachregister. Berlin: Musikinstrumenten Museum, 1965.
- A. Berner, "Die Klavierinstrumenten der Musikinstrumenten-Sammlung Berlin", Europiano Kongress, Berlin, 1965. Dokumentation, Kongressbericht. ... [Frankfurt a.M., 1966], pp. 261-271.
- A. Berner, "Musikinstrumenten-Museum", Preussischer Kulturbesitz: Ausstellungs Katalog [Städtische Kunsthalle] Düsseldorf [9 October - 3 December] 1967. [Berlin, 1967], pp. 158-169 (items 626-689, pls. 132-135).
- Irmegard Otto, Das Musikinstrumenten Museum Berlin: eine Einführung in Wort und Bild. Berlin, 1968.
- Olga Adelmann, "Unsignierte Instrumente des schweizer Geigenbauers Hans Krouchdaler: zu einer vergessenen Geigenbauschule des 17. Jahrhunderts", Jahrbuch des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung, Preussischer Kulturbesitz [SIMPK] (1969), pp, 68-82.
- A. Berner, "Das 19. Jahrhundert in Musikinstrumenten-Museum", Studia musico-museologica [symposium]. Nürnberg, 1970, pp. 80-89.
- A. Berner, "Das Berliner Musikinstrumenten-Museum und seine Zupfinstrumente", Zupfmusik (1974) 27/1: 5-10.
- I. Otto, O. Adelmann. Katalog der Streichinstrumente. Berlin: SIMPK, 1975.
- Dieter Krickeberg and Wolfgang Rauch. Katalog der Blechblasinstrumente. Polsterzungeninstrumente. Berlin: Staatlisches Institut für Musikforschung, 1976.
- D. Krickeberg. "Meine Herren, der alte Bach ist gekommen!" Bachfest 1976 in Berlin (West) vom 25. bis 30. August. Berlin: Neuen Bachgesellschaft, 1976.
- [Dagmar Droysen with Sabine Stahnke]. Das Musikinstrumenten-Museum des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung: eine Einführung. Berlin: [SIMPK], 1978.
- D. Krickeberg, "Die alte Musikinstrumentensammlung der Naumburger St. Wenzelskirche im Spiegel ihrer Verzeichnisse", Jahrbuch des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung Preussischer Kulturbesitz 1977. Berlin, 1978, pp. 7-30.
- D. Krickeberg, Gesine Haase. Tasteninstrumente des Museums: Kielklaviere, Clavichorde, Hammerklaviere. Berlin, SIMPK, 1981.
- [D. Droysen-Reber with Hannelore Schneider.] Wege zur Musik: herausgegeben anlässlich Eröffnung des neuen Hauses. Berlin: SIMPK, 1984.
- Martin Elste, Burghard Schaeffer, Günther Wagner. Die Magie der Flöte: die Traversflöte und die Musik am Hofe Friedrichs II. Hrsg. anlässlich der Ausstellung zum 200. Todestag Friedrichs des Grossen vom 29. Juni bis zum 31. Oktober 1986. Berlin: SIMPK, 1986.
- [D. Droysen-Reber, M. Elste, Imogen Fellinger, G.Haase, G. Wagner.] Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin. eds. in French. München: Magazinpresse Verlag, 1986; [tr: 1987].
- D. Droysen-Reber, M.Elste, and G.Haase. Handwerk im Dienste der Musik: 30 Jahre Berliner Musikinstrumentenbau. [Sonderausstellung zur 750-Jahr-Feier Berlins vom 28 Juni bis zum 4. Oktober 1987.] Berlin, 1987.
- D. Droysen-Reber, M. Elste, Imogen Fellinger, G. Haase, H.P. Reinecke. 100 Jahre berliner Musikinstrumenten Museum, 1888-1988. Berlin, SIMPK, 1988.
- J.H. van der Meer, et al. Kielklaviere: Cembali, Spinetta, Virginals. Berlin: SIMPK, 1991.
- Sophie Charlotte und die Musik in Lietzenburg, hrsg. anlässlich der Ausstellung vom 9. Juli bis zum 20. September 1987 als Beitrag zur 750 Jahr-Feier Berlins. Berlin: Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1987.
BIEBRICH, see Wiesbaden / Biebrich.
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BINGEN, Rhein
Heimatmuseum der Stadt Bingen, Burg Klopp, D 55411 Bingen. Regional museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (06721) 184 110.
BLANKENBURG / HARZ, near Magdeburg
Museum des Instituts für Aufführungspraxis Michaelstein, (Kultur-und Forschungsstätte), including: Instrumentenmuseum Michaelstein; Kräutergarten [herb garden] der Zisterzienser
[Cistercian cloister]; Architektur Zisterzienser, PSF 24, D 38889 Blankenburg / Harz.
State of Sachsen-Anhalt institute for performance practice, including a musical instruments museum. Tel.: (09278) 2795. Fax: (09281)2796.
- Yearbook (includes restoration reports).
- Ancillary publications including among other subjects, instrument building. Special essays.
BOCHUM
Museum Bochum. For the: Musikinstrumentensammlung Hans und Heide Grumbt, Wasserburg Haus Kemnade, An der Kemnade 10, D 44797 Hattingen, see HATTINGEN.
BOCHUM
Kunstsammlung (Museum Bochum), Kortumstr. 147, D 44787 Bochum.
Regional museum. Tel.: (0234) 621 2233 / 2237.
BONN
Beethoven-Haus, Bonngasse 20, D 53111 Bonn. Private house and art museum with musical instruments. Tel: (0228) 65 82 45.
- Paul Mies, "Beethovens letzter Flügel", Verein Beethoven-Haus, Bonn 1889-1964, Bonn: Verlag des Beethoven-Hauses, 1964.
- Josef Zimmermann, "Die Pfeifenmacherfamilie Walch in Berchtesgaden", Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau (1937), 57, no. 11, 12.
- J. Zimmermann, "Die Flötenmacher Friedrichs des Grossen", Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau (1940), 60, nos. 14-17, 19.
- Joseph Zimmerman. Von Zinken, Flöten und Schalmeien. Katalog einer Sammlung historischer Holsblasinistrumente. [Düren, 1967].
lp:
Beethoven string quartet in G M, op. 18, no.2, Silzer Quartet. F 666859.
Beethoven piano sonata in Ab M, op. 110, Jörg Demus, piano. HM 30177L Stereo.
Beethoven piano concerto in C M, op. 15, no.1, 7 Bagatelles, op 33, Erich Appel, piano. Colos SM 509.
Beethoven piano sonatas in B M, op. 22, no. 25 in G M op. 79, no. 26 in Eb M, op 81a, no. 27 in E m, op.90, bagatelle in A M, Variations in Eb M op. 35, Jörg Demus, piano. F667 066/67 Electrola.
sp (short playing):
Beethoven sonata in C# m, op. 27, no.2 (The Moonlight), Ecossaisen, Ernst Gröchel, on the Graf piano, and repeated on a modern piano. Co M 2004.
Elly Ney spielt Beethoven Andante favori. Für Elise. 6 variations in G M. SM 1014.
Das Heiligenstädter Testament gesprochen von Elly Ney, Adagio from op. 26 (Trauermarsch). Col 1015.
Beethoven sonata in C# m, op. 27, no.2, Colos SM 1007.
cassette:
Beethoven sonata Ab M, op. 110, 6 bagatelles, op. 126, Jörg Demus, piano.
MC 228 2/4.
BRAUNSCHWEIG
Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, Burgplatz 1, D 38100. State museum of history. Tel.: (0531) 484 2602. Fax: (0531) 484 2607.
- Werner Flechsig, "Ostfälische Musikinstrumentenmacher des 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts", Braunschweigische Heimat, Zeitschrift des Braunschweigischen Landesvereins für Heimatschutz (1962) 48: 46ff, 89ff, 110ff. (1963) 49: 9ff, 42ff, 83ff, 109ff. (1964) 50: 9ff, 53ff.
BRAUNSCHWEIG
Das Museum der mechanischen Musik Braunschweig, Ziegenmarkt 2, D 38100 Braunschweig. Private museum. Tel.: (0531) 42516.
BRAUNSCHWEIG
* Städtisches Museum, Am Löwenwall, D-38110 Braunschweig. Provincial museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (0531) 470-2450; 43446. Fax: (0531) 470-4555.
- Hans Schröder. Verzeichnis der Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente im Städtischen Museum Braunschweig. Werkstücke aus Museum, Archiv und Bibliothek der Stadt Braunschweig, Bd. III. Braunschweig, 1928.
- Bert Bilzer, Rolf Hagen. Städtisches Museum Braunschweig 1861-1961. Braunschweig, 1961.
- Dorothea Hecht. Katalog der afrikanischen Sammlung im Städtischen Museum Braunschweig. Braunschweig, 1968; musical instruments: pp. 285-373.
BREMEN
Focke-Museum, Schwachhauser Heerstrasse 240, D 28213 Bremen. State art and history museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (0421) 496 35 75.
- Werner Kloos. Focke-Museum. Hamburg: Verlag Cram, de Gruyter, [n.d.].
- Günter Hart, "Die Musikinstrumente im Focke-Museum zu Bremen", Glareana (1973), 22, no. 3/4: lvs. 50-57.
BREMEN
Übersee-Museum, Abteilung Völkerkunde, Bahnhofsplatz 13, D 28195 Bremen. Ethnographic and natural history museum. Tel.: (0421) 361-9176. Fax: (0421) 361-9291.
- [Monographs on folk arts, including musical ethnology.]
- [Diverse publications about the work of the gamelan group ARUM SIH, for example:]
- Andreas Lüderwaldt, "ARUM SIH. Zur Arbeit der Gamelan-Gruppe am Übersee-Museum Bremen", Musik und Bildung (1990), Heft 9/10: 554-556.
- A. Lüderwaldt, "Gamelan", Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (März 1993), Heft 2: 26-33.
- A. Lüderwaldt, "Musikinstrumente im Übersee-Museum Bremen", Musik und Unterricht (Januar 1991), Heft 6: 60-62.
BRUCHSAL, near KARLSRUHE
Museum für mechanische Musikinstrumente, Schloss Bruchsal, D 76646 Bruchsal. Regional art museum with musical instruments department.
Tel.: (07251) 74 26 61.
Von der Kuckucksuhr zur Musikbox, cuckoo clock, Swedish hackbrett, barrel organ, [spielwerk], music boxes, [tongue barrel organ], orchestrion, salon orchestrion. Wergo, MC/SM, 1201-10, LP; CD/SM 1201-50.
BUBENREUTH, near Erlangen
Geigenbaumuseum Bubenreuth, Rathaus, Birkenallee, D 91088 Bubenreuth.
Private musical instrument museum. Tel.: (09131) 23028.
- Bubenreuth und Umland: interessengemeinschaft Streich- und Zupfinstrumentenbau. Bubenreuth: Streich- u. Zupfinstrumentenmacher Innung, 1987.]
- [Bubenreuth, its builders of violins, and the Geigenbaumuseum, Gerold Karl Hannabach, narrator.] Video casette.
CELLE
Bomann Museum für Volkskunde, Landes- und Stadtgeschichte, Schlossplatz 7, D 29221 Celle. Ethnology and social history museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (05141) 1 23 72.
COBURG
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, D-96450 Coburg. Art collection with musical instruments. Tel.: (09561) 8790.
COLOGNE, see KÖLN
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CRAILSHEIM
Fränkisch-hohenlohesches Heimatmuseum, Spitalstrasse 2, Postfach 1465, D 74564 Crailsheim. Municipal museum incorporating a violin museum.
Tel.: (07951) 403-115. Fax: (07951) 43-234.
CUXHAVEN
Private collection. Those with a serious purpose wishing to visit the collection may contact Dr. Alexander Pilipczuk, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1 Steintorplatz, DW-20099 Hamburg. Tel.: (040) 2486-2632; 2486-2830.
DARMSTADT
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Friedensplatz 1, D 64283 Darmstadt. Provincial museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (06151) 12 54 34. Fax: (06151) 2 89 42.
- Grossherzoglichen Hessisches Landesmuseum. Führer durch die Kunst-und Historische Sammlungen. Darmstadt, 1908.
- [Friedrich Back]. Führer durch die Kunst- und historischen Sammlungen. Darmstadt: [Wittisch'sche Hofbuchdruckerei], 1908, pp. 64-66.
- Musikinstrumente aus dem Hessischen Landesmuseum, 16.-19. Jahrhundert; Ausstellung 26. 6. - 31. 8. 1980. Wolfgang Beeh, ed. Darmstadt: [Kumpf, 1980]
DINGOLFING
Museum Dingolfing, Obere Stadt 15; postal address: Dr.-Josef-Hastreiter-Strasse 2, D-84130 Dingolfing. Town museum with musical instruments.
Tel: (08731) 1501. Fax: (08731) 60023.
- Georg Brenninger, "Die Orgeln des Landkreises Dingolfing-Landau", Der Storchenturm, 1974, 9, Heft 17: 1-34.
- Firtz Markmiller, "Zur Geschichte der weltlichen Instrumentalmusik in Dingolfing", Der Storchenturm, 1974, 9, Heft 17: 42-63.
- Lambert Grasmann, "Musiker in Vilsbiburg während des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts", Der Storchenturm 1974, 9, Heft 17: 64-68.
- G. Brenninger, "Die Orgeln des ehemaligen Landkreises Vilsbiburg", Der Storchenturm, 1976, 11, Heft 21: 35-44.
- L.Grasmann, "Zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik in Vilsbiburg", Der Storchenturm, 1976, 11, Heft 21: 65-77.
- Robert Münster, "Ein Kirchenmusikinventar der Pfarrkirche Vilsbiburg aus der Zeit des Kurfürsten Max Emanuel von Bayern", Der Storchenturm, 1976, 11, Heft 21: 78-82.
- F. Markmiller, "Die Dingolfinger Stadtmusikanten", Niederbayer. Blätter für musikalische Volkskunde, 1984, 4: 2-24.
- F. Markmiller, "Zur Musik des bayerischen Bürgermilitärs. Das Beispiel Dingolfing", Niederbayer. Blätter für musikalische Volkskunde, 1984, 4: 75-116.
- F. Markmiller, "Oberpfälzische und niederbayerische Materialien über Tanzmusik um die Mitte des 10. Jahrhunderts", Niederbayer. Blätter für musikalische Volkskunde, 1985, 6: 37-61.
- F. Markmiller, "Zur Orgelgeschichte in Frontenhausen", Orgelweihe Pfarrkirche St. Jakobus, Frontenhausen, 1987, p. 7.
- F. Markmiller, "Der Dingolfinger Kirta und seine Musik, Kirchweihbeilage zum Dingolfinger Anzeiger, 13 Oct. 1989.
DRESDEN
Museum für Kunsthandwerk Dresden, Schloss Pillnitz, Postfach 85/15, D 01326 Dresden. Decorative arts museum with musical instruments.
Tel.: (051) 39325; (051) 39231.
- Dieter Gräf. "Musikinstrumente", in Katalog Kunsthandwerk 18. Jahrhundert. Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, 1967.
- Gisela Haase. "Kunstschrank u. Arbeits-Tisch", in Katalog Kunsthandwerk der Gotik und Renaissance. Nrs. 27, 28. Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, 1981.
DRESDEN
Zwinger / Semperbau, Rüstkammer, Sophienstrasse, D-01067 Dresden. History museum with musical instruments. Tel: (0351) 484-0626.
DRESDEN
Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Museum, Dresdener Strasse 44, D-01326 Dresden. City museum devoted to a composer. Tel: (0351) 39234.
EISENACH
Bachhaus Eisenach, Frauenplan 21, D 99817 Eisenach. Historical museum commemorating J.S. Bach, incorporating a collection of musical instruments. Tel.: 3714.
in G, Heinrich Carl Tölcke, Braunschweig, ca. 1775; in F (d'amore) C.Krauss, ca. 1750; bass: J. Scherer, ca. 1760; Dominique Porthaux, Paris, ca. 1800; Griesling & Schlott, Berlin, ca. 1825; serpents; ophicleide, Antoine Courtois, Paris, ca. 1858; bugle horns: J.C. Strizke, Breslau, 1731; J.G. Geisler, Breslau, ca. 1780; half-moon signal horn: natural horn: J.Werner, Dresden, 1745; ventilhorns: E. Lorenz, Braunschweig, ca. 1845; A. Sax, Paris, 1855; natural trumpets: Anton Bennick, Lübeck, 1621; M.F. Ehe, Nürnberg, 1744; J.G. Rediger, Grosshartmannsdorf, ca. 1760; J.J. Schmeid, Pfaffendorf, 1780; post horn; valved trumpets; flugel horns; trombones: discant, alto, tenor, bass: J.C. Müller, Dresden, 1725.
Glass armonica, Germany, ca. 1775; pair of kettledrums: Herold, Jena, 1783,1801.
Diatonic harp, South Germany, ca. 1690; hooked harp, same, ca. 1725; pedal harps; spitzharfe, probably Italy, 1701; mandolins, pandurina; lute, J.J. Lindner, Dresden, 1697; guitared lutes: Germany, ca. 1700, J. Golberg, Danzig, 1741, A.S. Posch, Wien, 1749; theorbo, Andreas Jauch, Dresden, 1751; guitars. 2 tromba marinas, Thüringen, ca. 1740, 1730/60; pochettes; viole da gamba: tenors: Jacob Steinberg, Weimar, 1674; J. Tielke, Hamburg, 1683; J.C. Hoffmann, Leipzig 1725; contrabass, Thüringen, ca. 1800; 10 various viole d'amore; violins: anon. large mid-17th c.; J.H. Ruppert, Erfurt, 1719; probably D.C. Hopf, Quittenbach, ca. 1760; J.N. Lambert, Paris, 1783; alto viola da braccio, J.B. Buchstetter, Regensbug, 1720; violas; viola pomposa, Rauch family, ca. 1760; violoncelli: C.L. Bachmann, Berlin, 1790; bow collection.
Spinets: 2 by J.H. Silbermann, Strasbourg, ca. 1765; harpsichords: South Thüringen, ca. 1715; Jacob Hartmann, Dresden, 1765; clavichords: fretted, Saxony, ca. 1685; 2 from South Germany, 1770/5, ca. 1780; unfretted pedal by J.G. Marckert, Ostheim v.d. Rhön; tangentenflügel, F.J. Späth & C.F. Schmahl, Regensburg, ca. 1790; square pianos: J.G. Wagner, Dresden, 1788; F. Beck,London, 1774; J.G. Schenck, Weimar, 1817; J. Schneider, Berlin, ca. 1835; grand pianos: Franz Lautterer, Wien, 1820/5; J.B. Streicher, Wien, 1834; claviorganum, C.F. Schmahl, 1805/10; positiv organ; small bird pipe organs.
- G.Bornemann and E. Buhle, "Verzeichnis der Sammlung alter Musikinstrumenten im Bachhaus zu Eisenach", Bach-Jahrbuch (1911), pp. 109-28.
- "Die Instrumenten-Sammlung des verstorbenen Dr. Aloys Obrist", Zeitschrift f¨r Instrumentenbau, (1910/11), 31: 89.
- Edward Buhle, Georg Vormann. Verzeichnis der Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente im Bachhaus zu Eisenach. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1913.
- Curt Sachs. Verzeichnis der Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente im Bachhaus zu Eisenach. [Neue Ausg.] Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1919].
- Friedrich Breidert, Conrad Freyse. Verzeichnis der Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente im Bachhaus zu Eisenach, 3rd, 4th eds. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1939], 1964.
- Herbert Heyde. Historische Musikinstrumente im Bachhaus Eisenach. Eisenach, 1976.
- Ilse Domizlaff. Siebzig Jahre Bachhaus Eisenach: Kleine Chronik. Eisenach, 1977.
- I. Domizlaff. Chronik des Bachhauses: Zahlen und Fakten. Eisenach, 1983.
- Lehmann. Silhouetten der Bach Familie. 1985.
- Wolfgang Wenke. Historische Musikinstrumente im Bachhaus, Eisenach. Eisenach, 1988.
EISENACH
Thüringer Museum Eisenach, Markt 24, D-99817 Eisenach. Provincial collection of Thüringer art and cultural history. Tels.: 4910. 57310.
ERDING
Städtisches Heimatmuseum, Prielmayerstrasse 1, (office: Landshuterstrasse 1, D 85435 Erding. Municipal Museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (08122) 408.
ERLANGEN
Musikinstrumentensammlung, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bismarckstrasse 1, D 91054 Erlangen. State university collection of musical instruments. Tel.: (09131) 852 398.
- Rudolf Steglich, "Vom Klang der Zeiten; historische Musikinstrumente in Erlangen", Musica (Kassel, 1948) 2: 19-24.
- R. Steglich, "Kostbare Sammlung: Frankische Musikinstrumente", Bayerische Handwerkzeitung (1952), 4, no. 24: 8.
- Thomas J. Eschler, "The Collection of Historical Musical Instruments of the University of Erlangen: a Checklist", GSJ (1983), 36: 115-124.
FLENSBURG
Städtisches Museum, Lutherplatz 1, D 24937 Flensburg. Municipal museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (0461) 852956.
- Ellen Redlefsen, "Ein Cembalo aus dem Besitz des Grafen Otto von Blome", Nordelbingen (1970), Band 40.
FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN
Goethe-Haus, Grosser Hirschgraben 23-25, D 60311 Frankfurt-am-Main.
Commemorative literary museum with musical instruments.
Tel.: (069) 28 28 24; 29 18 84. Fax: (069) 29 38 22.
- Daniel Gottlob Türk. Klavierschule. Leipzig, 1789 (facs. Erwin R. Jacobi, ed. Kassel, 1962.
- Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau [ ZfI ] (1901) 22: 700 ff.
- Jahresbericht der Goethehauskommission, Jb. FDH: (1880/81), p.4 f.; (1903), p.320;
- Hermann Schmitz. Vor hundert Jahren, Berlin. [N.p., ?1963.]
- Friedrich Ernst, "Historisches Tasteninstrumente im Frankfurter Besitz", MIuP, (1964) XIII: 126-128.
- Franz Josef Hirt. Meisterwerke des Klavierbaus. Zürich, 1981;
- Hubert Henkel. Clavichorde. Leipzig, 1981.
FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN
Historisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt-am-Main, Sammlung der Musikinstrumente, Saalgasse 19, D 60311 Frankfurt a.M. Municipal museum with a collection of musical instruments. Tel.: (069) 212 33371. Fax: (069) 212 30702.
- "[Abathlg. 2.] Die Musikinstrumente, bearb. von Dr. F.L. Limbert", [4 pp.], in
- F. Quilling. Die Sammlungen des historischen Museum zu Frankfurt am Main. 2 vols. Frankfurt a.M.: Kern & Birner, 1899-1904.
- Peter Epstein. Katalog der Musikinstrumente im historischen Museum der Stadt Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main, 1927.
- Friedrich Ernst, "Historisches Tasteninstrumente im Frankfurter Besitz", Musikinstrument (und Phono ) [ MIuP ], (1964) XIII: 126-128.
- G. Schweizer. "Kostbarkeiten und Kuriosotäten in der Instrumentenabteilung des Frankfurter historischen Museums", Musikinstrument und Phono, Frankfurt a.M. (1964), XIII: 748-49.
FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN
* Stadt- u. Universitätsbibliothek, Sammlung Friedrich Nicolas Manskopf, Bockenheimer Landstrasse 134-138, DW-60325 Frankfurt-am-Main 1.
Tel.: (069) 212 39 244. Fax: (069) 212 39 404.
- Emil Münster, "Das Fr. Nikolas Manskopf'sche musikhistorische Museum zu Frankfurt a.M.", Neue Musik-Zeitung (Stuttgart, ?1900), XXI, No. 17: 209.
- H.P., "Das Frankfurter musikhistorische Museum von Fr. Nicolas Manskopf", Frankfurter Nachrichten, no. 296 (1900).
- "The English Coronation Exhibition.. . at Frankfort-on-the-Main", Musical Times (1902), 43: 464.
- Das Musikhistorische Museum von Nicolas Manskopf, Frankfurt a.M. [collection of newspaper items, illustrations and a portrait, Frankfurt a.M., ca. 1902] GB-Lbl (Hirsch no. 459)
- Das Musikhistorische Museum von Nicolas Manskopf. Frankfurt a.M.: R. Th. Hauser & Co. [n.d., ?1920]
- "Musikinstrumente in der Musikabteilung" [typescript].
FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN
Museum für Völkerkunde, Schaumainkai 29, D 60594 Frankfurt a.M. Ethnographic museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (069) 212 5391.
- [Reference cards and acquisitions register available on request; no special catalogue on musical instruments, but specimens included in various catalogues.]
FRANKFURT (ODER)
Museum Viadrina, Reka-Sammlung historischer Musikinstrumente, Carl-Phillipp-Emanuel-Bach-Strasse 11, D 15230 Frankfurt (Oder). District museum with a collection of musical instruments. Tel.: (0335) 2 23 15.
- Kaiser-Reka, Berol, "Die staatliche REKA-Sammlung historischer Musikinstrumente Frankfurt/Oder", Bulletin, hg. vom Musikrat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, (1977) XIV: 58-64. Sonderheft: Musikinstrumentensammlungen in der DDR.
- Herbert Heyde. Historische Musikinstrumente: Reka-Sammlung Museum Viadrina, Frankfurt/O.. Leipzig, VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik [1989].
FREIBERG, Sachsen
* Stadt- und Bergbaumuseum, Am Dom 1, DO-9200 Freiberg, Sachsen. Art and mining history museum with musical instruments. Tel.: 31 97.
- Wappler, "Die beiden Orgeln unseres Museums", Mitteilungen des Freiberger Altertumsvereins (1904), Heft 40: 103.
- Ernst Müller, "Musikgeschichte von Freiberg", Mitteilungen des Freiberger Altertumsvereins (1939), LXIII: 73 about the organ; 124 about Russian horns.
- Ernst Flade. Gottfried Silbermann. Leipzig, 1953, p. 277 about the clavichord.
- Ulrich Dähnert, "Das Positiv im Stadt- und Bergbaumuseum Freiberg in Sachsen", Walckers Hausmitteilungen (1961) Nr. 25, p. 3.
- Ernst Schäfer. Laudatio organi, 3rd ed. Leipzig, 1975, p. 121 photo of organ; p. 190 text.
- Reinhard Peesch. Volkskunst. Berlin, 1978. (P. 61-62 about a mountaineer's music box.)
- Andreas Michel, "Fast eier grossen Cyther gleich", Musikforum (1988), p. 51.
FREIBURG in BREISGAU, Baden-Württemburg
* Münster, Kaiserkapelle, Münsterplatz, Freiburg in Breisgau, Baden Württemberg.
- F.E. Müller, "Die Musikinstrumente in der Freiberger Domkapelle, Archiv für Musikwissenschaft (1957), 14: 193-200.
FREYBURG, Unstrut
Museum Schloss Neuenburg, D-06632 Freyburg. Castle museum. Tel: (034464) 27336. Fax: (034464) 28029.
FULDATAL II, Simmershausen
Mechanisches Musik Museum, Kasselerstrase, Ecke Friedrichstrasse, D 34233 Fuldatal II, Simmershausen. Tel.: (0561) 81 29 51.
FÜSSEN
Museum der Stadt Füssen, Lechhalde 3, D 87629 Füssen. Municipal and science museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (08362) 50 53 46.
- Richard Bletschacher. Die Lauten- und Geigenmacher des Füssener Landes. Hofheim-am-Taunus, Friedrich Hofmeister Verlag, 1978; 2nd ed. 1991.
- Adolf Layer. Die Allgäuer Lauten- und Geigenmacher. Augsburg, 1978.
- Cilly Kahle, "Die Instrumenten-Sammlung des Füssener Heimatmuseums", Jahrbuch des Historischen Vereins Alt Füssen (1982), 95-98.
- Erich Tremmel, "Die Niedergang des Musikinstrumentenbaus in Füssen und Umgebung im 19. Jahrhundert", Jahrbuch des Historischen Vereins Alt Füssen (1989), 128-138.
- Ekkehard Schulze-Kurz. "Lauten, Gitarren und Cistern im Museum der Stadt Füssen", Jahrbuch des Historischen Vereins Alt Füssen (1991), 159-171.
GERA, Thüringa
Museum für Geschichte, Strasse der Republik 2, D 07548 Gera. (070) 2 31 02.
GERA, Thüringa
Stadtmuseum, Heinrichstrasse 2, D-07545 Gera. City museum with musical instruments.
Tel: (0365) 23102.
GÖTTINGEN
Institut und Sammlung für Völkerkunde, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Theaterplatz 15, D 37073 Göttingen. University collection of folk instruments.
Tel.: (0551) 38 78 92.
GÖTTINGEN
Musikinstrumentensammlung des Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminars, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Kurze Geismarstrasse 1, D 37073 Göttingen.
University museum of musical instruments. Tel.: (0551) 395075.
Governing organization: Musikwissenshcaftlichen Seminars, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen.
Prof. Dr. Rudolf M. Brandl (1943- ), Austrian ethnomusicologist, specializing in Central African Pygmy music; Greek instrumental folk music and Chinese local opera. Collected 33 objects: 8 Greek and Chinese instruments, 27 Nuo opera masks, during fieldwork in Greece, 1973-1981; and since 1986 in Anhui, People's Republic of China.
- Hans Hickmann, "Note sur une petit harpe en forme be bêche ou de pelle", in Miscellanea Musicologica, V, Extraits des Annales du Service des Antiquitüs de l'E'gypte, Cairo, (1949), XLIX.
- Hickmann, "Ein unbekanntes koptisches Saiteninstrument", Die Musikforschung, 3. Jg., Kassel, 1950.
- Hermann Moeck, "Ursprung und Tradition der Kernspaltflöte der europäischen Folklore und die Herkunft der musikgeschichtlichen Kernspaltflötentypen." Ph.D. dissertation, Universität Göttingen, 1952. [Typescript in Archiv des Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminars].
- Hickmann, "Moeck, Hermann", Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (1961), IX.
- Heinrich Sievers, Gerhard Thebs, "Bemühungen um die Sammlung Moeck", Instrumentenbau-Zeitschrift (1962/63) 17: 318-21.
- Josef Zimmermann. Von Zinken, Flöten und Schalmeien. Düren, 1967.
- Heinrich Husmann, "Musikinstrumente und Musikwissenshaft", Georgia Augusta 9. Göttingen, 1968.
- Felix Hoerburger, "Volksmusik in Afghanistan, nebst einem Exkurs über Qor'an-Rezitation und Thora-Kantillation in Kabul", Regensburger Beiträge zur musikalischen Volks- und Völkerkunde (1969), I.
- Hermann Moeck, "Typen europäischer Kernspaltflöten", Studia Instrumentorum Musicae Popularis, Stockholm (1969) I: 41 ff.
- Hoerburger, "Studien zur Musik in Nepal", Regensburger Beiträge zur musikalischen Volks- und Völkerkunde (1975), II.
- Martin Staehelin, "Der sogenannte Musettenbass: Forschungen zur schweizerischen Instrumenten- und Musikgeschichte des spätern 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts", Jahrbuch des Bernischen historischen Museums in Bern (1969-1970) XLIX/1: 93 ff.
- Ellen Hickmann, "Altägyptische Musikinstrumente und musizierende Terrakotten: Über eine ehemalige Privatsammlung an der Universität Göttingen", Kunst und Antiquitäten (1979), V.
- Norbert Stellner, "Katalog der Sammlung Hoerburger; Teil 1: Beschreibungen; Teil 2: Abbildungen. [Masters thesis, Universität Regensburg, 1979. Typescript in Archiv des Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminars.]
- New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 20 vols. London, 1980.: - Robert Anderson, "Hickmann, Hans (Robert Hermann)", vol. 8.; - Anon., "Hoerburger, Felix", vol. 8.; - Christopher Monk, "Moeck",, vol. 12.; - Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, "Reinhard, Kurt", vol. 15.; - Jürg Stenzl, "Staehelin, Martin", vol. 18.
- Hans Jörg Maucksch, "Zu ausgewählten Querflöten der Göttinger Musikinstrumentensammlung", Tibia (1980), Heft 3.
- Maucksch, "Vollständiges Objektverzeichnis der Musikinstrumentensammlung des Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminars der Universität Göttingen", Katalog III. Inventar, Universität Göttingen. [Unpublished typescript in Archiv der Sammlung], 1981.
- Edward Tarr, "Ein Katalog erhaltener Zinken", Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis (1981), V.
- Gerhard Kubik, Moya Aliya Malamusi, "Nachdokumentation der afrikanischen Musikinstrumente in der Sammlung des Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminars der Georg-August Universität Göttingen", [unpublished typescript in Archiv der Sammlung], 1985.
- Klaus-Peter Brenner. Musikinstrumente aus den Beständen des Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminars der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: [exhibition catalogue], Martin Staehelin, ed. Göttingen: Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft, 1986.
- K.P. Brenner. Musikinstrumente Europas, Asiens und Afrikas aus den Beständen des Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminars der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Rudolf Maria Brandl, ed., Göttingen: Deutsche Bank, 1987.
- K.P. Brenner, "Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar: Sammlung von Musikinstrumenten", 250 Jahre Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (jubilee exhibition), Gustav Beuermann, ed. Göttingen, 1987.
- Dorothea Willerding, "Die beiden Gitarren von Giovanni Battista und Gennaro Fabricatore in der Instrumentensammlung des Göttinger Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminars. Versuch einer genauen Erfassung; Universität Göttingen, 1987. [Unpublished typescript in Archiv der Sammlung.
- K.P. Brenner. Erlesne Musikistrumente aus der Sammlung, Musikwissenschaftlichen Seminars der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Martin Staehelin, Rudolf Maria Brandl, eds. Göttingen, 1989.
- K.P. Brenner, "Musikinstrumentensammlung der Gottinger Universität" Das Musikinstrument. (1989) XXXIX, Heft 2-3: 172 ff.
- Karen Krah, "Die Harfe im pharaonischen Ägypten: ihre Entwicklung und Funktion", Orbis musicarum, Göttingen (1991), VII.
- Rudolph M. Brandl, Stefan Kuzay, Erhard Rosner. Nou-Geistermasken aus Anhui. Ausstellung des Musikwissenschaftlichen und Ostasiatischen Seminars der Georg-August-Universitaät Göttingen. Göttingen: Edition Re, 1991.
- R.M.Brandl, Diether Reinsch. Die Volksmusik der Insel Karpathos. Bd. 1. Die Lyramusick von Karpathos; eine Studie zum Problem von Konstanz und Variabilität instrumentaler Volksmusik am Beispiel einer griechischen Insel, 1930-1981. Göttingen: Edition Re, 1992.
- K.P. Brenner. Dörfliche Musik aus dem Distrikt Bodrum, Südwest-Türkei. Stiluntersuchungen anhand der Sammlung Reinhard 1968 und eigener Feldaufnahmen 1984-1986. Musikethnologie, Bd.2. Münster / Hamburg, 1992. [2 vols. plus audio cassette.]
- K.P. Brenner, "Bemerkungen zum Entwicklungsgedanken in der Musikinstrumentenkunde", Georgia-Augusta, (May, 1993), no. 58.
- Ricardo Eichmann, "Kapitel über kotische Lauten", in Byzanz. Werner Bachmann, ed. Musikgeschichte in Bildern. Leipzig, II/. [forthcoming]
GOTHA
Musik- und Theatergeschichte Gothas, Museen der Stadt Gotha, Museum für Regionalgeschichte und Volkskunde, Ekhof-Theater, PSF 217, D 99867 Gotha.
Regional history and folk art museum with musical instruments.
Tel.: (0622) 4016.
- E.Nippold, "Das Gothär Schlosstheater als barocke Opernbühne, 1683-1744", Abh. Ber. Heimatmuseum Gotha (1966), pp. 3-32.
- E.Nippold, "Vom höfischen Theater zum Hoftheater; zur Geschichte des Gothär Schlosstheaters 1774/75", Abh. Ber. Heimatmuseum Gotha (1968), pp. 3-20.
- E.Nippold, "Die Gründung des Gothaer Hoftheaters; zur Geschichte des Gothär Schlosstheaters 1744/75", Abh. Ber. Regionalgeschichte, Gotha (1970), pp. 5-20.
- [Brochure containing a catalogue of the collection on exhibition, expected 1991.]
GROSSSCHÖNAU
Damast- und Heimatmuseum, Schenaustrasse 3, D-02779 Grossschönau. House museum which gave its musical instruments to other institutions. Tel.: 2461.
HALLE, Saale
Händel-Haus, Grosse Nikolaistrasse 5, and Markt 13, D 06108 Halle-an-der-Saale. Municipal music museum with a musical instrument section. Tel.: (046) 24606.
- Konrad Sasse, Das Händel-Haus in Halle. Halle: Händel-Haus, 1958.
- Katalog zu den Sammlungen des Händel-Hauses in Halle, 1-9,pt.1 vols. Halle: Händel-Haus, 1961-1986; - V: Musikinstrumentensammlung. Besaitete Tasteninstrumente, 1966.; - VI: Musikinstrumentensammlung. Streich- und Zupfinstrumente, 1972. ; - VII: Musikinstrumentensammlung. Blasinstrumente, Orgeln, Harmoniums, 1980.
- Herbert Heyde. Historische Musikinstrumente des Händel-Hauses: Führer durch die Ausstellungen. Halle: Händel-Haus, 1983.
- Konrad Sasse, "Das Händelhaus in Halle", Neue Museumskunde: Theorie und Praxis der Museumsarbeit (1979) 22/2: 93-101.
HAMBURG
Private flute collection in the Hamburg area. Those with a serious purpose wishing to see the collection may contact: Dr. Alexander Pilipczuk, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Steintorplatz 1, D 20099 Hamburg.
Tel.: (040) 2486 2632. (040) 2486 2830.
HAMBURG
Private violin, flute and piano collection in the Hamburg area. Those with a serious purpose wishing to see the collection may contact: Dr. Alexander Pilipczuk, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Steintorplatz 1, D 20099 Hamburg.
Tel.: (040) 2486 2632. (040) 2486 2830.
HAMBURG
Private piano collection in the Hamburg area. Those with a serious purpose wishing to see the collection may contact: Dr. Alexander Pilipczuk, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Steintorplatz 1, D 20099 Hamburg. Tel.: (040) 2486 2632. (040) 2486 2830.
HAMBURG
Private collection in the area. Those with a serious purpose wishing to see the collection may contact: Dr. Alexander Pilipczuk, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Steintorplatz 1, D 20099 Hamburg. Tel.: (040) 2486 2632. (040) 2486 2830.
- [Various articles:] "Die Instrumente der Blasmusik;" "Mit Saitenspil und Lauten vil;" "Die Naturgeschichte der Hörnerscalls", published in Die Zinnfigur, and in Rund um das Horn. Hamburg: Deutscher Jagdschutz-Verband.
HAMBURG
Private collection in the Hamburg area. Those with a serious purpose wishing to see the piano may contact: Dr. Alexander Pilipczuk, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Steintorplatz 1, D 20099 Hamburg. Tel.: (040) 2486 2632. (040) 2486 2830.
Collection: square piano, Mathias Petter Kraft, Stockholm, 1805 (ser. no. 327).
- Tobias Norlind. Den Svenska Lutan. Stockholm: Svensk Tidskrift for Musikforskning, 1935.
HAMBURG
Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, Norddeutsches Landesmuseum, Museumstrasse 23, D-22765 Hamburg. Offices: Postfach 50 01 25, D-22701 Hamburg. National museum with musical instruments. Tel: (040) 3807-2963; 3807-514. Fax: (040) 3807-2122.
HAMBURG
Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde, Rothenbaumchaussee 64 (exhibitions), 13 Binderstrasse 14 (offices), D 20148 Hamburg. State archaeological and ethnological museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (040) 44 195505.
- Kunz Dittmer. Musikinstrumente der Völker: Einführung in die Musikinstrumenten-kunde der aussereuropäischen Völker. Hamburg: Selbstverlag des Museums für Völkerkunde und Vorgeschichte, 1947.
HAMBURG, Klein Flottbek
Jenisch-Haus Museum, Baron-Voght-Strasse 50, D-22609 Hamburg Klein-Flottbek. Merchant's house museum with musical instruments.
Tel.: (040) 3807-2963; 3807-514. Fax: (040) 3807-2122.
HAMBURG
Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Holstenwall 24, D 20355 Hamburg. State museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (040) 3504-2360.
- Hans Schröder, "2. Alte Musikinstrumente in Museum ... ", Gesellschaft der Freunde des vaterländischen Schul- und Erziehungswesens. Musikalisches Schaffen und Wirken aus drei Jahrhunderten. Ausstellung musikgeschichtlicher Drucke, Handschriften und alter Musikinstrumente. Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek. Museum für hamburgische Geschichte. Hamburg, 1925, pp. 11-16.
- Hans Schröder. Verzeichnis der Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente. Hamburg, 1930.
HAMBURG
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Steintorplatz 1, D 20099 Hamburg. Art and industry museum with a collection of musical instruments.
Tel.: (040) 2486 2632. (040) 2486 2830.
- Hans Nirrnheim, "Die hamburgischen Musikinstrumente", Das Hamburgishe Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (1902), pp. 163-167.
- Die Musik Hamburgs im Zeitalter Sebastian Bachs: Ausstellung anlässlich des neunten deutschen Bachfestes zu Hamburg 3-7 Juni 1921. Hamburg, 1921, pp. 705-718.
- Hans Schröder. Verzeichnis der Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente Hamburg, 1930.
- Armin Conradt, "Cembalo Christian Zell, Hamburg, 1728", Stiftung zur Förderung der HamburgischenKunstsammlungen. Erwerbungen 1962. Hamburg, 1962, pp. 42-47.
- A.Conradt, "Hamburger Musikinstrumente des 18 Jahrhunderts mit Lackmalerei", Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen (1964), 9: 29-48.
- Günther Hellwig. Joachim Tielke, ein Hamburger Lauten-und Violenmacher der Barockzeit. Frankfurt-am-Main, 1980.
- Alexander Pilipczuk, "Erwerbungen für die Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente", Jahrbuch des Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Neue Folge (1984), III: 291-304.
- A. Pilipczuk, "Zur Restaurierung des Hass-Clavichords von 1732", Das Musikinstrument, Jg. 37, Frankfurt a.M., 1988, IX: 42-52.
- A. Pilipczuk, "Instruments Old and New: Beaten, Plucked, Bowed, Blown. Catalogue of Musical Treasures in Hamburg", German Research Reports of the DFG (1989), I: 10-13.
- A. Pilipczuk, "Grotrian-Steinweg-Flügel von 1897/98 im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg", Das Musikinstrument, Jg. 38 (1989) IX: 15-32.
- A. Pilipczuk, "Erwerbungen für die Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente 1986-87", Jahrbuch des Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Neue Folge (1988) VI/VII: 213-224.
- A. Pilipczuk, "Der Lauten- und Violenmacher Joachim Tielke", Führungsblatt Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, (MKG) 3.9, Hamburg, 1980.
- A. Pilipczuk, "Hamburg Jugendmusikzentrum", Führungsblatt, MKG 3.17, Hamburg, 1989.
HANNOVER
Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, Pferdestrasse 6, D-30159 Hannover. City history museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (0511) 168-2352. Fax: (0511) 168-5003.
HANNOVER
Schuknecht Musikwissenschaftliches Museum für Selbstspielende Instrumente, Friesenstrasse 54, D 30161 Hannover. Private collection of mechanical musical instruments. Tel.: (0511) 31 60 11.
- Mechanisches Singvögel
- Fritz Wrede und der Drehorgelbau in Hannover
HARBURG über DONAUWÖRTH
Fürstlich Oettingen-Wallerstein'sche Sammlungen, Schloss Harburg, D 86609 Harburg
über Donauwörth. Private art collection with musical instruments.
Tel.: (09003) 12 68.
- Luwdig Schiedermaier, "Die Blütezeit der Oettingen-Wallerstein'schen Hofkapelle; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Adelskapellen", Sammelbände der internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft (1907), 10: 83-130.
- Jon Ross Piersol. The Oettingen-Wallerstein Hofkapelle and its Wind Music. 2 vols. Thesis, University of Iowa, 1972.
- Günter Hart, "Musikinstrumente auf Schloss Harburg", Glareana (1974), 23, no. 3, lvs. 38-39.
HATTINGEN-Blankenstein, near BOCHUM
Musikinstrumentensammlung Hans und Heide Grumbt, Wasserburg Haus Kemnade, An der Kemnade 10, D 44797 Hattingen-Blankenstein. Private collection now part of municipal art museum, exhibited in a farmhouse museum.
- Friedrich Ernst, "Musikinstrumenten Sammlung Hans Grumbt, Bochum", Glareana, (1965) 14, no.2.
- Musikinstrumente der Völker: Sammlung Hans Grumbt II. 13.12.1975-18.1.1976. Bochum: Museum Bochum, 1975.
- Josef Hiestand-Schnellmann, "Muiskinstrumenten der Völker: Sammlung II von Hans Grumbt, Bochum", Glareana (1976), 25: 20.
- Musikinstrumentensammlung Grumbt: Idiophone. Bochum: Museum Bochum, 1990.
HEIDELBERG
Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar der Universität Heidelberg. Augustinerstrasse 7, D 69117 Heidelberg. University collection.
HEIDELBERG
Kurphälzisches Museum der Stadt, Hauptstrasse 97, Postfach 10 55 20, administration: Schiftgasse 10, D-69045 Heidelberg. City museum with musical instruments.
Tel.: (06221) 583 400. Fax: (06221) 583 490.
HEIDELBERG
Völkerkunde-Museum der J. und E. von Portheim-Stiftung, Palais Weimar, Haupstrasse 235, D 69117 Heidelberg. Ethnographic museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (06221) 22067.
HERSBRUCK, Bavaria
Deutsches Hirtenmuseum, Eisenhüttlein 7, D 91217 Hersbruck.
Municipal museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (09151) 2161.
- E. Pflaumer. Deutsches Hirtenmuseum Hersbruck. Hersbruck, 1978.
- H. Süss. 50 Jahre Hirtenmuseum Hersbruck. Hersbruck, 1985.
IDSTEDT, nr. Schleswig
Idstedt Museum, Idstedt-Gedächtnishalle, Idstedtkirche 2, D 24879 Idstedt.
History museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (04625) 402.
- Führungen durch die Idsted-Gedächtnishalle
INGOLSTADT, Bavaria
* Herzogschloss, DW-8070 Ingolstadt.
- Günter Hart, "Die Musikinstrumentensammlung im Schlossmuseum zu Ingolstadt / Donau", Glareana (1968) 17, no 1: lvs. 2-7.
INGOLSTADT, Bavaria
Bayerisches Armeemuseum, Paradeplatz 4, D-85049 Ingolstadt; postal address: Postfach 21 02 56, D-85017 Ingolstadt. State military museum with musical instruments.
JENA
* Stadtmuseum, Am Markt 7, DO-6900 Jena. Municipal museum with musical instruments. Tel.: 23147.
- "Eine Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente in Jena", Weltkunst [Berlin] (2 April 1933), 2: 2-3.
KIEL
Museum für Völkerkunde, Universität Kiel, Hegewischstr. 3, D 24105 Kiel.
Anthropology museum. Tel. (0431) 597-3620. (0431) 597-3601
KÖLN
Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Zeughausstrasse 1-3, Postfach 10 80 20 D 50667 Köln.
Municipal museum. Tel. (0221) 221-9519. Fax: (0221) 888-2988.
- Helmut Hoyler, with Detlef Altenburg and Christopy Dohr. Die Musikinstrumentensammlung des Kölnischen Stadtmuseums. Köln, 1993.
- Führer durch das Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, 1960.
- Günter Hart, "Das Musikinstrumentensammlung im Kölnischen Stadtmuseum", Glareana (1976), 25, no. 1: lvs. 1-20.
KÖLN
Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universität zu Köln, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D 50931 Köln (Lindenthal). University collection of musical instruments. Tel.: (0221) 470-2249.
KÖLN
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Ubierring 45, D 50678 Köln. Ethnology museum.
Tel. (0221) 31 10 65. 31 10 66. Fax: (0221) 221-4105.
KONSTANZ
Rosgartenmuseum Konstanz, Rosegartenstrasse 3-5, D-78459 Konstanz.
Cultural history museum with musical instruments.
LAUCHA, Sachsen-Anhalt
Glockenmuseum (Lechnisches Museum), Glockenmuseumstrasse 2, D 02708 Laucha.
Municipal technological museum dedicated to bells. Tel. (04591) 651.
- Vera Ohk. Das Glockenmuseum in Laucha-an-der-Unstrut. Nebra [Unstrut]: Rat d. Kreises, 1954, 1962.
LEIPZIG
Private bassoon collection in the Leipzig area. Those with a serious purpose wishing to see the collection may contact:
LEIPZIG
Museum für Völkerkunde, Täubschenweg 2, Postfach 80, D 04103 Leipzig.
Regional ethnological museum. Tel.: (041) 29 10 41.
- Jahrbuch des Museums für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Vols. 1-38.
- Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Heft 1-35.
- Mitteilungen aus dem Museums für Völkerkunde Leipzig, Heft 1-53.
- Arno Richter, " ...historische und ethnologische Ausstellung musikalischer Instrumente ... .", Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau, (1882/83) III: 244, 255-56, 267-68.
- Führer durch das Museum für Völkerkunde. ... Leipzig: Spamerschen Buchdruckerei, 1913.
- Edouard Wagner, "Verzeichnis chinesischer Musikinstrumente", Jahrbuch für Völkerkunde, (1952) XI: 23-33.
- Dietrich Drost, "Tönerne Trommeln in Afrika", Jahrbuch für Völkerkunde, (1955) XIV: 31-61.
LEIPZIG
Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig, Täubschenweg 2c, D 04103 Leipzig. University musical instrument museum.
Tels.: (041) 29 46 58. 28 21 08.
- Alessandro Kraus. Musée Kraus à Florence. Catalogue des instruments de musique anciens et modernes du Musée Kraus. Firenze: Tip. dell'Arte della Stampa, 1878.
- A. Kraus figlio. La musique au Japon ... 85 figures en photographie répresentant les instruments japonais du Musée Kraus à Florence. 3 eds. Firenze: Imp. de l'Arte della Stampa, 1878, 1879, 1880.
- A. Kraus figlio, "Gli strumenti musicali degli Ostiacchi", Archivio per l'antropologia e l'etnologia (1881) 11: 249-54.
- "Das Museum Kraus in Florenz", Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau (1883/84) 4: 70, 79.
- "Sammlung Paul deWit", pp. 142-148; and "Raum XXVI. Kolossalgruppe Paul deWit", pp. 409-412, in Vienna. Internationale Ausstellung für Musik- und Theater-wesen, 1892. Fachkatalog ... Deutschland und Österreich-Ungarn. Wien, 1892.
- Paul deWit. Perlen aus der Instrumenten-Sammlung von Paul de Wit in Leipzig. Leipzig: [author], 1892.
- P.deWit. Kurzgefasster Katalog aller im musikhistorischen Museum von Paul deWit vorhandenen Musikinstrumente, Gemälde und anderen Merkwürdigkeiten, die auf Musik oder Musik-instrumente bezug haben. Leipzig, 1893.
- "Die Entwicklung des Musikinstrumentenmacher-Gewerbes in Leipzig, unter Berücksichtigung der im musikhistorischen Museum von Paul deWit noch vorhandenen Instrumente", Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau (1895/96) 16: 172-74, 202-05, 229-30.
- Wilhelm Altenburg, "Über einige Holzblasinstrumente mit Doppelzungenblatt in dem deWit'schen Musikhistorischen Museum", Zeitscirfrt für Instrumentenbau (1897-98) 18: 519-21, 543-46.
- E. Schurig, "Ein Kapitel aus der Geschichte der Trommel in Sachsen. Historische Skizze ... ergänzt durch Abbildungen ... in musikhistorischen Museum von Paul de Wit", Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau (1899/1900) 20: 286-89.
- A. Kraus figlio. "Collezione etnografico-musicale Kraus in Firenze", Archivio per l'antropologia e la etnologia (1901) 31: 275-97.
- [A. Kraus figlio.] Catalogo della collezione etnografico-musicale Kraus in Firenze. Sezione istrumenti musicali. Firenze: Tip. di S.Landi, 1901.
- The Kraus ethnographie-psychologie [sic] Musical Collection in Florence. [Florence: 1901.]
- P.deWit. Katalog des musikhistorischen Museums von Paul de Wit Leipzig. ... Leipzig: [author], 1903.
- A. Kraus figlio. Etnografia musicale; appunti sulla musica dei popoli nordici. ... Firenze: Tip. di S.Landi, 1907.
[ Also in: Archivo per l'antropologia e la etnologia (1907) 37: 47-87.
- Georg Kinsky. Musikhistorisches Museum von Wilhelm Heyer in Köln. Katalog von Georg Kinsky, Konservator des Museum. 4 vols. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1910-1916.
- Katalog. Band 1: Besaitete Tasteninstrumente. Köln, 1910.
Band 2: Zupf- und Streichinstrumente. Leipzig, 1912.
Band 3: [Wind instruments; unpublished].
- G. Kinsky. Kleiner Katalog der Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente. Köln, 1913.
[Entries for wind instruments; presumably the text for the 3rd (unpublished) vol. of the above.BR>
- [G. Kinsky.] Zur eröffnung des Musikhistorischen Museums von Wilhelm Heyer, Cöln, am 20. September 1913. [Köln: Druck von J.P. Bachem, 1913.]
- "Verkauf des musikhistorischen Museums von Wilh. Heyer in Köln nach Leipzig", Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau (1925/26) 46: 879.
- G. Kinsky, "Paul deWit" [obituary], Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft (1925/26) 8: 254-255.
- Ernst Closson, "Le Musée Heyer de Cologne cédé à Leipzig", Revue musicale (July 1927), 8: 64-66.
- Helmut Schulz. Führer durch das musikwissenschaftliche Instrumenten-Museum der Universität Leipzig. Leipzig, 1929.
- Paul Rubardt. Führer durch das Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig. 1955; 2nd ed. 1964.
- Winifried Schrammek. Musikinstrumenten. Aus dem Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Karl-Marx-Universität. Einführung und Erläuterungen. [Leipzig, 1970]
- W.Schrammek, "Der Bachsaal im Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Karl-Marx-Universität",
II. Internationales Bachfest Leipzig 1970.. . Leipzig, 1970, pp. 67-69.
"Zum 50. Todestag von Paul deWit ... .", Schriftenreihe des Musikinstrumenten-Museums, 1. Leipzig, 1975, pp. 7-12
- Helmut Zeraschi. Geschichte des Museums. Schriftenreihe des Musikinstrumenten-Museum, 2. Leipzig, 1977.
- Herbert Heyde. Flöteninstrumente Karl-Marx-Universität zu Leipzig. Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Gesamtkatalog, Band 1. Leipzig: VEB Dutscher Verlag für Musik, 1978.
- Hubert Henkel. Kieleninstrumente. ... Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Gesamtkatalog, Band 2. Frankfurt a.M.: Das Musikinstrument [1979].
- Hubert Henkel, "Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig: Geschichte und Aufgaben", Neue Museumskunde: Theorie und Praxis der Museumsarbeit (1979) 22/2: 81-92.
LINDAU
Stadtmuseum Lindau, Abteilung der Mechanische Musikinstrumente, Marktplatz 6, Postfach 1780, D-88107 Kindau / Bodensee.
Tel: (08382)275-405
LINZ am RHEIN (nr. Köln and Koblenz)
Musik Museum (Klingendes Museum), Burgplatz 4, D 53545 Linz am Rhein.
Private collection of mechanical musical instruments.
Tel.: (02644) 3081. Fax: (02644) 7449.
- Museumskatalog.
- Linzer Burg & Notenschlüssel, an annual periodical.
- "Die Burg Linz als privates Museum u. kommerzielle Erlebnisburg." Masters thesis.
- Television news reports.
LISSBERG (Ortenberg-Lissberg)
* Musikinstrumentenmuseum Lissberg, Schlossgasse, DW-6474 Ortenberg-Lissberg.
A group of private collections constituting a museum.
Tel.: (06046) 580. (06046) 467.
LÖBAU
Stadtmuseum Löbau, Johannisstrasse 5, D-02708 Löbau.
City museum of city history museum and folklore of the Oberlausitz with instruments.
LÜBECK
* Fritz Fey, Jr. Museum für Figurentheater Lübeck, Kleine Petersgrube 4, DW-2400 Lübeck. Private puppet theater with musical instruments.
- Peter Jodeit. Museum für Puppentheater in Lübeck. Lübeck, 1982.
LÜBECK
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck (formerly the St. Annen-Museum), Düvekenstrasse 21, D 23552 Lübeck. Municipal museum.
- Georg Karstädt, "Blasinstrumenten des Barock", Musica (1950), 4: 460-62.
- "Alte Musikinstrumente in Lübeck", Musica (1958), 12: 563-64.
- G. Karstädt. "Die Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente im St. Annen-Museum", Lübecker Museumhefte, (1959), vol. 2.
- Günter Hart, "Glossen zu einem Verzeichnis einer Instrumentensammlung; alte Musikinstrumente im St. Annen-Museum in Lübeck", Instrumentenbau-Zeitschrift (1960) 14: 88-89.
- Karstädt, "Bildzeugnisse mittelalterlicher Musikinstrumente im St. Annen-Museum", Der Wagen: ein lübeckisches Jahrbuch. 1964. Pp. 51-57.
MANNHEIM
Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit, Museumsstrasse 1, D 68165 Mannheim.
Science museum with musical instrument department. Tels.: (0621) 292-4743; 292-4742. Fax: (0621) 292-4754.
MARKNEUKIRCHEN
Musikinstrumenten Museum, Bienengarten 2, D 08258 Markneukirchen.
- Katalog des Gewerbemuseums Markneukirchen. Markneukirchen, 1908.
- Erich Wild. Führer durch des Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Stadt Markneukirchen. Markneukirchen, 1967; 3. Aufl., 1971.
- Hanna Jordan. Führer durch des Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Stadt Markneukirchen. (1975-1989) Auflage 1-9.
- H.Jordan. Führer durch des Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Stadt Markneukirchen. Markneukirchen, 1989.
MEININGEN
Musikgeschichtliche Abteilung, Staatliche Museen, Schloss Elisabethenburg, D 98617 Meiningen. Music department of the national museum of history and art.
Tel.: 21 74.
- Franz Weinitz. "Die lappische Zaubertrommel in Meiningen", Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (1910), Heft 1.
MITTENWALD
Geigenbau und Heimat Museum Mittenwald, Ballenhausgasse 3, D 82481 Mittenwald. Musical-association museum of stringed instruments and old domestic objects. Tel.: (08823) 2511.
- "Das Geigenbau- und Heimatmuseum in Mittenwald", Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau (1929/30), 50: 735-736.
- Adolf Layer. Matthias Klotz von Mittenwald. Feldafing / Obb.: Verlag Friedl Brehm, 1959.
- Max Seidel. Geigenbaumuseum Mittenwald-Bayern. [N.p., n.d.]
MÜNCHEN
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Prinzregentenstrasse 3, D 80538 München. State art museum with a collection of musical instruments. Tel.: (089) 21681.
The collection of musical instruments is on permanent loan to the: Musikinstrumentenmuseum Münchner Stadtmuseum, St. Jakobsplatz, D 80331 München. Tel.: (089) 233-2367.
- K.A. Bierdimpfl: Die Sammlung der Musikinstrumente des Baierischen Nationalmuseums. München, 1883.
- Alfons Ott. Ausstellung Alte Musik, Instrumente, Noten und Documente aus drei Jahrhunderten; Katalog. München: Max Hieber, 1951.
MÜNCHEN
Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum, Abteilung Jagdhörner, Neuhauser Strasse 2, D-80331
MÜNCHEN
Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Museumsinsel 1, D 80538 München. Museum of natural history and technology with a department of musical instruments.
Tel.: (089) 2179-1. Fax: (089) 217-9324.
Primary responsibility: Verwalter [curator].
- Amtlicher Führer durch die Sammlungen. München: Knorr und Hirth, [1925].
- Bertha Antonia Wallner, "Die Musikinstrumentensammlung des Deutschen Museums in München", Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft (1926), 8: 239-47.
- Franz Fuchs. "Führung durch die Abt. Musikinstrument des Deutschen Museums", Deutsche Instrument-Bau Zeitung, Berlin (1926), 27, no. 9.
- F. Fuchs. Der Aufbau der technischen Akustik im deutschen Museum. Deutsches Museum, Abhandlungen und Berichte, 37, 2. München, 1963.
- Jürgen Voelckers, "Streichzither-Klavierharfe und der älteste Kielflügel; die Instrumentensammlung des Deutschen Museums in München", Instrumentenbau-Zeitschrift (1971), 25, no. 6: 179-81.
- Heinrich Seifers. Die Blasinstrumenten im Deutschen Museum; beschreibender Katalog. Deutsches Museum, Abhandlungen und Berichte; Jahrg. 1976, 44, Heft 1. München: R.Oldenburg, 1976.
- H.Seifers. Katalog der Blasinstrumente. München, 1980.
- Führer durch die Sammlungen. 2nd revised and elarged ed. München: C.H. Beck, 1987.
- Bettina Wackernagel. Katalog der Streich- und Zupfinstrumente. [In preparation].
- Hubert Henkel. Katalog der besaiteten Tasteninstrumente. [In preparation.]
MÜNCHEN
Musikinstrumentenmuseum Münchner Stadtmuseum, St. Jakobsplatz, D 80331 München. Tel.: (089) 233-2367.
The Neuner Collection was the Städtische Musikinstrumentensammlung from 1940; in 1962 it became a department of the Münchener Stadtmuseums. In 1983 instruments on loan from the Bayrisches Nationalmuseum were added to the exhibition. Between 1985 and 1987 more instruments from the Colt Clavier Collection were included in the display.
- K.A. Bierdimpfl: Die Sammlung der Musikinstrumente des Baierischen Nationalmuseums. München, 1883.
- Alfons Ott. Ausstellung Alte Musik, Instrumente, Noten und Documente aus drei Jahrhunderten; Katalog. München: Max Hieber, 1951.
- Kurt Haselhorst, "Melodie und Rhythmus der Völker: die Musikinstrumentsammlung", Bayerland, der illustrierte Zeitspiegel (Januar 1970) 72, no. 1: 14-21.
- C.F. Colt with Antony Miall. The Early Piano. London: Stainer & Bell, [1981].
- Manfred Hermann Schmid. Die Revolution der Flöte Theobald Boehm, 1794-1881, Katalog. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1981.
- Karl Ventzke, Gunther Joppig. Hohes Holz-Oboen-Instrumente aus Privatsammlungen. München [special printing], 1989.
MÜNCHEN
Staatliche Museum für Völkerkunde, Maximilianstrasse 42, D 80538 München. State museum of ethnology with musical instruments.
Tel.: (089) 228-5606. Fax: (089) 224582.
- Curt Sachs. Die Musikinstrumenten Birmas und Assams in K. Ethnographisches Museum zu München. K. Bayerische Akad. der Wissenschaften. Sitzungsberichte Philos.-philol. und hist. Klasse. Jg. 1916, Abh. 2. München: G. Franzscher Verlag in Komm, 1917.
MÜNSTER
Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Erbdrostenhoff
Provicial museum with musical instruments
MÜNSTER
Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Domplatz 10, D-48143 Münster. Art museum with musical instruments.
NEUBURG AN DER DONAU
Historischer Verein, Bahnhofstrasse B 142, D-86633 Neuburg a.d. Donau. Historical society with musical instruments. Tel.: (08431) 49334.
NÜRNBERG
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Abteilung Musikinstrumente, Kornmarkt, Postfach 9850, D 90402 Nürnberg. Historical museum foundation with a musical instruments department.
Tel.: (0911) 1331-196. Fax.: 0911 1331-200.
- Fritz Jahn, "Trompeten- und Posaunenmacher im 16. Jahrhundert", Beiträge zur Geschichte des Nürnberger Musikinstrumentenbaues. Leipzig, 1925.
- F. Jahn, "Das GNM zu Nürnberg und seine Musikinstrumenten-Sammlung", Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft X (1927-1928), 109-111.
- Hanns Neupert. Das Musikhistorische Museum Neupert in Nürnberg. Führer. Nürnberg, 1938.
- Willi Wörthmüller, "Die Nürnberger Trompeten- und Posaunenmacher des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts", Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg, XLV (1954), 208-325, and XLVI (1955), 372-480.
- Kurt Boegner, "Ein 'Halbmond' aus Fürth", Fürther Heimalblätter, Neue Folge XIV (1964), 101-107.
- John-Henry van der Meer, "Beiträge zum Cembalobau im deutschen Sprachgebiet bis 1700", Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 1966, pp. 103-133.
- Friedemann Hellwig, "On the Construction of the Lute Belly", GSJ, 1968, XXI: 129-145.
- J.-H. van der Meer, "Klavierhistorische Sammlung Neupert, Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 1969, 255-266.
- F. Hellwig, "An Example of Lute Restoration, GSJ, 1970, XXIII: 64-68.
- J.-H. van der Meer, "Die Musikinstrumentensammlung des Germanischen Nationalmuseums und ihre Darbeitung", Studia Musico-Museologica. Bericht über das Symposium "Die Bedeutung.. . einer Musikinstrumentensammlung". Nürnberg-Stockholm, 1970, 32-47.
- J.-H. van der Meer, "Curt Sachs and Nürnberg", GSJ XXIII (1970), 120-125.
- J.-H. van der Meer, "Flämische Kielklaviere im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg", in colloquium Restauratierproblemen van Antwerpse Klavicimbels, Antwerp, 1970.
- F. Hellwig, "Makers' Marks on Plucked Instruments of the 16th and 17th Centuries", GSJ, 1971, XXIV: 22-32.
- F. Hellwig, "The Single-strung Harpsichord", in Keyboard Instruments, Edwin M. Ripin, ed. Edinburgh, 1971, pp. 27-36.
- J.-H. van der Meer, Wegweiser durch die Sammlung Historischer Musikinstrumente, Nürnberg, 1/1971; 2/1976; 3/1982.
- Ekkehard Nickel. Der Holzblasinstrumentenbau in der Freien Reichsstadt Nürnberg. München, 1971.
- J.-H. van der Meer, Der "alte" Musikinstrumentenbestand des Germanischen Nationalmuseums. Nürnberg, 1972.
- F. Hellwig, "Lute Construction in the Renaissance and the Baroque", GSJ, 1974, XXVII: 21-30.
- J.-H. van der Meer, "Studien zum Cembalobau in Italien", Studia Instrumentorum Musicae Popularis, III: Festschrift Ernst Emsheimer. Stockholm, 1974, 131-148.
- J-H. van der Meer, "The Dating of German Clavichords", The Organ Yearbook, VI (1975), 110-113.
- F. Hellwig, "Strings and Stringing in Contemporary Documents", GSJ, 1976, XXIX, 91-104.
- J.-H. van der Meer, "Historische Musikinstrumente", Das Germanische Nationalmuseum Nürnberg 1852-1977. München & Berlin, 1978.
- Will Jansen. The Bassoon: Its History, Construction, Makers, Players, and Music. 12 parts. Buren, The Netherlands: F. Knuf, 1978-1984.
- F. Hellwig, "Die Lauteninstrumente im Germanischen Nationalmuseum", Gitarre + Laute, 1979, VI, 9-15.
- J.-H. van der Meer, Verzeichnis der aussereuropaischen Musikinstrumente im Germanischen Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, 1979 [typescript].
- J.-H. van der Meer, Verzeichnis der aussereuropaischen Musikinstrumente im Germanischen Nationalmuseum. Vol. 1: Hoerner und Trompeten, Membranophone, Idiophone. Wilhelmshaven, [1979].
- J.H. van der Meer, "Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. Geschichte seiner Musikinstrumentensammlung", Jahrbuch des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Berlin, 1979/80, pp. 9-78.
- F. Hellwig, "The Morphology of Lutes with Extended Bass Strings", Early Music, 1981, IX, 115-136.
- J.H. van der Meer, Musikinstrumente von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, München, 1983.
- Friedemann Hellwig, Atlas der Profile an Tasteninstrumenten vom 16. bis zum frühen 19. Jahrhundert, Veroeffentlichungen des Instituts für Kunsttechnik und Restaurierung im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Band 1. Frankfurt a.M., 1985. (In German and English).
- Martin Kirnbauer, Dieter Krickeberg. Untersuchungen an Nürnberger Blockflöten der Zeit zwischen 1650 und 1750. Sonderdruck aus dem Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums 1987. Nürnberg, 1987.
- Studia Organologica. Festschrift für John Henry van der Meer zu seinem 65. Geburtstag, ed. Friedemann Hellwig, Wissenschaftliche Beibaende zum Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Band 6. Tutzing, 1987.
- Restaurierung und Konservierung von Holzblasinstrumenten. Bericht über ein Kolloquium der Fachgruppe Musikinstrumente in GNM under der Leitung von Rainer Weber. Klaus Martius, Hrsg. Nürnberg, 1988.
- Klaus Martius und Karel Moens, "Wie authentisch ist ein Original? Untersuchungen an zwei alten Streichinstrumenten des Germanischen Nationalmuseums", Concerto, VI, 1988.
- Martin Kirnbauer, "Historische Holzblasinstrumente in der Sammlung des Germanischen Nationalmuseums in Nürnberg", Tibia, 1989, 424-429.
- Renate Huber, Verzeichnis sämtlicher Musikinstrumente im Germanischen Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel-Verlag, 1989.
- Antoine Leonard, K. Martius, "Wiederherstellung einer viola da gamba von Hartin Hoffmann", Arbeitsblätter für Restauratoren, Heft 2, 1990, 116-128.
- K. Martius, Kathrin Schulze, "Ernst Busch und Paul Hiltz: zwei Nürnberger Lauten- und Violenmacher der Barockzeit; Untersuchungen zum Streichinstrumentenbau in Nürnberg, Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 1991, 145-183.
- Martin Kirnbauer, Katalog der Flöten- und Rohrblattinstrumente bis 1750. Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel-Verlag, 1994.
PASSAU, Bavaria
Oberhausmuseum der Stadt Passau, Georgsberg 125, D 94034 Passau.
State, municipal and church museum. Tel.: (0851) 396 352.
- Konrad Ruhland
- Hans Karl Moritz. Oberhausmuseum Passau, München: Verlag Schnell u. Steiner, 1964.
- Das Oberhausmuseum Passau: Führer durch die Sammlungen. Passau, 1984.
POTSDAM
Potsdam-Museum
RADOLFZELL am BODENSEE
Stadtmuseum Radolfzell am Bodensee, Teggingerstrass 16, Postfact 1480,
REGENSBURG
Kunst- und Kulturgeschichtliche Sammlungen, Dachauplatz 2-4, D 93047 Regensburg.
Municipal museum. Tel.: (0941) 507-3440.
- Franz A. Stein, "Historische Musikinstrumente im Regensburger Museum", Regensburger Kulturblätter, Beilage zur Regensburger Universitätszeitung, (1967), 3: 15-18.
- Raimund Sterl, "Musikinstrumentenbauer von der Mitte des 15. Jh. bis zur Neuzeit", Verhandlungen des Historischen Vereins für Oberpfalz und Regensburg (1973), 113: 158 ff.
ROSTOCK
Kulturhistorisches Museum der Hansestadt Rostock, Abteilung Geschichte, Sammlung Kultur und Lebensweise, Klosterhof, D 18055 Rostock 1.
Municipal local culture- and history museum with musical instruments.
Tel.: 34705; 34706.
RÜDESHEIM am RHEIN
Siegfried's Mechanisches Musikkabinett, Brömserhof (above the Drosselgasse), Oberstrasse 29, D 65385 Rüdesheim am Rhein. Private museum of mechanical musical instruments. Tel.: (06722) 4217; 4587.
- Siegfried Wendel. Das mechanische Musikkabinett. [N.p.]: Bibliophile Taschenbücher, [n.d].
Oldtime Music, SMMK 03. Robert Stolz von der Notenrolle, SMMK. Weinachtliche Spieluhrenmusik, SMMK 04. Happy Orchestrion, SMMK 05. Leierkastenklänge, SMMK 10.
RUDOLSTADT
Thüringer Landesmuseum Heidecksburg, Schlossbezirk 1, D-07407 Rodolstadt.
SIGMARINGEN
Fürstlich Hohenzollernsche Sammlungen und Hofbibliothek, Schloss
- Frank P. Bär, Die Sammlung der Musikinstrumente in Fürslich-Hohenzollernschen Schloss zi Sigmaringen an der Donau: Katalog. Tützing: H. Schneider, 1994.
SIMMERSHOFEN
Forschungsstelle für fränkische Volksmusik.
SINSEIM, near HEIDELBERG.
Auto + Technik Museum Sinsheim e.V., Obere Au 2 (Neuland-Au, on the A6 from Heilbronn to Mannheim), D 74889 Sinsheim. Private technical and auto museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (07261) 61 116. Fax: (07261) 13 916.
SONDERSHAUSEN
Schlossmuseum Sondershausen, D 99706 Sondershausen. Local museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (03632) 602 503. Fax: (03632) 602 505.
SONTHOFEN
Heimatshaus Sonthofen, Sonnenstrasse 1, D-87527 Sonthofen
STUTTGART
Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Staatliche Museum für Volkerkunde, Hegelplatz 1, D 70174 Stuttgart. State ethnographic museum with musical instruments.
Tel.: (0711) 123-1242; 123-1248.
- Tribus: Veröffentlichungen des Linden-Museums, Stuttgart, 1951-.
STUTTGART
Württembergisches Landsmuseum Stuttgart, Sammlung historischer Musikinstrumente, Schillerplatz 3, D 70173 Stuttgart. State cultural-history museum with a collection of musical instruments. Tel.: (0711) 279-3435. Fax: (0711) 279-3499.
- [Gift of the Carl A. Pfeiffer Collection to the Landesgewerbemuseum Stuttgart; and description of instruments]. Zeitschrift der internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft (1902), 3, no. 5: 206.
- Bericht über das Jahr 1907.
- "Eine Führung durch die Carl A. Pfeifferische Musikinstrumentensammlung", Zeitschrift der internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft (1922/23) 43: 267, 269.
- Hanns H. Josten. Die Sammlung der Musikinstrumente, im Auftrage der Museum-direktion bearb. Stuttgart: E.Klett, 1928.
- [Catalogue and guide in preparation.]
- Carl-Phillip-Emmanuel Bach: Sonaten u. Rondos, Ludger Rémy, Hammerflügel von J.A. Stein, Augsburg, 1788. Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm, im Vertrieb von EMI-Electrola-ASD. CD/LP.
- Joseph Haydn: Klavierwerke, Ludger Rémy, Hammerflügel von John Broadwood, London, 1794. Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm, im Vertrieb von EMI-Electrola-ASD. CD.
THALLICHTENBERG, near KUSEL
* Musikkantenland - Museum Burg Lichtenberg, Zehntscheune, DW-6799 Thallichtenberg. State music museum.
Tel.: (06381) 8429. Fax: (06381) 424131.
Governing organization: Kreisverwaltung Kusel, Trierer Strasse 49, * DW-6798 Kusel 1. Tel.: (06381) 440.
- Paul Engel, "Das Westphälzer Wandermusikantentum im Lichte musikwissenschaftlicher Untersuchung", Zum Beispiel: Der Landkreis Kusel. Kusel, 1985.
- Lichtenberg Castle. Kusel, 1988.
TRIBERG
Schwarzwaldmuseum Triberg, Sammlung Schwarzwälder Orchestrien, Wallfahrtstrasse 4, D 78098 Triberg. Private Black-Forest museum with a collection of of mechanical musical instruments. Tel.: (07722) 4434.
Orchestrien-Musik aus dem Schwarzwald-Museum Triberg. Pallas, cassette, 7740-90.
UFFENHEIM
Heimat und Museumsverein Uffenheim u. Umgebung e.V. Uffenheim. Private museum with musical instruments.
ULM
Ulmer Museum, Marktplatz 9, INFO MISSING
VELBERT, Neviges, near WUPPERTAL
* Museum Udo Thein, Alter Bahnhof, Bernsaustrasse 27, DW-5620 Velbert 15, Neviges. Private collection of miniature and full-scale keyboard instruments. Tel.: (02053) 71 10.
WALDKIRCH, near FREIBURG.
Elztalmuseum, Kirchplatz 14, D 79761 Waldkirch. Regional history museum including mechanical organs. Tel.: (07681) 206 104. Fax: (07681) 206 179.
- Forschen und Bewahren: das Elztäler Heimatmuseum in Waldkirch, Kultur- und zum Breisgau, Heinrich Lehmann and Willi Thoma, eds. [Waldkirch: Waldkircher Verlagsgesellschaft [n.d.].
- Waldkircher Orgelbauer, zur geschichte des Drehorgel- und Orchestrionbaus, Kirchenorgelbauer in Waldkirch, ed. Hermann Rambach, Otto Wernet, [Waldkirch: Waldkircher Verlagsgesellschaft [n.d.].
- Orgelgrüsse aus dem Waldkircher Heimatmuseum, 87er Gavioli Konzertorgel. CM2088; cassette CCM 2088.
- Klingende Kostbarkeiten aus dem Elztäler Heimatmuseum, 3 Waldkircher Konzertorgeln (52 Gebr. Bruder walz organ, model 107, another rebuilt by the Limonaire Frères Family; Limonaire Frères concert organ). CM 2089; cassette CCM 2089.
WASSERBURG
Stadt Wasserburg am Inn, Herrengasse 15, Postfach 1680, D 83512 Wasserburg-am- Inn. Municipal museum with musical instruments.
Tel.: (08071) 10542.
Unternaltungsmusik aus alter Zeit: Virginalmusik des 16. u. 17. Jahrhunderts. Egino Klepper on virginals, "VK", 1588. Cavalli Records, CLP 106.
WEIMAR
Nationale Forschungs- und Gedenkstätten der klassischen deutschen Literatur in Weimar, Goethe-Nationalmuseum, Am Burgplatz 4, Postschliessfach 366, D 99423 Weimar. Memorial research foundation of house museums with musical instruments. Tel.: 2472. 2495.
Goethe-Nationalmuseum Weimar, Am Frauenplan 1, D 99423 Weimar.
Grand piano, Nanette Streicher, Wien, 1821.
Goethe-Gartenhaus im Park: Square piano, 1799.
Schillerhaus mit Schillermuseum: Square piano; guitar.
Wittumspalais mit Wielandmuseum: guitar, Joachim Tileke, Hamburg, 1684; harp, Naderman, Paris, 1770; piano, last third, 18th c.Schloss Tiefurt: lyre-guitar, 1801/2; square piano, G. Buntebart & Co., London, 1783; piano, Erard Frères, Paris, 1802.
Dornburger Schlösser, Rokokoschloss: piano, Friedrich Hippe, Ober Weimer, 1820.
Kirms-Krakow-Haus: giraffe piano, Martin Seuffert, Wien, ca. 1810; square piano, Carl Toefling, Gotha, ca. 1820; guitar, Franziscus Mackiewitcz, Moscow, 1802.
Schloss Kochberg: piano, anon., ? Wien, ca. 1790.
Liszthaus, Musikzimmer: Ibach-Klavier, Rudolf Ibach Sohn, 1885, autographed by Liszt; piano, C. Bechstein, Berlin, 1869.
Nietzsche-Archiv, Bibliothek: ms. piano sketch, for Hof Pianoforte Fabrik Römhild AG, Weimar, 1903, by Henry van de Velde.
Nationalen Forschungs- und Gedenkstätten, in storage: piano, Boisselet & Fils, Marseille, 1844; (at headquarters:) 2 square pianos: [signed:] Breitkopf, Leipzig, ca. 1830, and Franz Haenel, Naumburg, ca. 1880; 3 grand pianos: Friedrich Hippe, Ober Weimar, ca. 1820; C. Bechstein, Berlin, ca. 1880; and South German or Austrian, ca. 1800;
Bauerbach, bei Meiningen: Schillerhaus, grosses Wolzogenzimmer: square piano, Caspar Katholning, Wien, ca. 1820.
Stützerbach: Goethehaus Stützerbach: Goethezimmer: Piano, Johann Matthäus Schmahl, Ulm, ca. 1760-1790.
- Willi Ehrlich. Das Wittumspalais zu Weimar. Weimar, 1988.
- Günther Hellwig. Joachim Tielke: ein Hamburger Lauten- und Violenmacher der Barockzeit. Frankfurt-a-M., 1981.
- Franz Josef Hirt. Meisterwerke des Klavierbuas: Geschichte der Saitenklaviere von 1440-1880 Olten, Switzerland: Urs Graf-Verlag, 1955; [Engl.tr.:] Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, 1968.
- Alfred Jericke. Das Goethe-Haus am Frauenplan. Weimar, 1958.
- Georg Kinsky. "Die Streicherflügel im Weimarer Goethehaus", Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau.
- Fr. Menzel. Schloss Tiefurt. Weimar, 1964.
- Wolfgang Rödel. Das Goethe-Gartenhaus zu Weimar. Weimar, 1954.
- Eduard Scheidemantel. Das Schillerhaus in Weimar. Weimar, 1942.
- Hermann Scheidemantel. Das Schillerhaus zu Weimar. Weimar, 1913.
- Marie Schuette, Das Goethe-Nationalmuseum zu Weimar. Leipzig, 1910.
- Sigrid Unger. Das Wittumspalais zu Weimar. Weimar, 1957.
- Olaf Velke. Die Gitarren in den klassischen Gedenkstätten Weimars. 1963.
- Hans Wahl. Goethes Gartenhaus. Leipzig, n.d.
- Wahl. Das Wittumspalais der Herzogin Anna Amalia. Leipzig, 1927.
WEIMAR
Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Schlosmuseum, Schloss Belvedere, Burgplatz 4, D 99423 Weimar. Art collections with musical instruments. Tel.: 61831.
- Georg Kinsky: "Beiträge zur Tielke-Forschung", Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft IV Jrg. (1922), 604.
- Günther Hellwig. Joachim Tielke: ein Hamburger Lauten- und Violenmacher der Barockzeit. Frankfurt-a-M., 1981.
WEGLATEN, near Nürnberg
Will Jansen bassoon collection. Now part of the Abteilung Musikinstrumente, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Kornmarkt, Postfach 9580, D 90402 Nürnberg.
WERDAU
Kreis- und Stadtmuseum, Uferstrasse 1, D 08412 Werdau.
Regional and municipal museum with musical instruments. Tel.: 3051.
WERTACH
Governing organization: Markt Wertach.
WIESBADEN / BIEBRICH
Firma Wilhelm Heckel GmbH, Stettiner Strasse 7, Postfach 120343, D 65203 Wiesbaden-Biebrich. Instrument maker's private collection.
Tel.: (0611) 66182. Fax: (0611) 600841.
- Wilhelm Heckel: Der Fagott, Biebrich-am-Rhein, 1899, 2nd ed.: Leipzig: Merseburger Verlag, 1931.
- Franz Groffy. Musikhistorisches Museum Heckel-Biebrich: Fagotte. Wiesbaden-Biebrich, 1968.
WÖRLITZ
Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Wörlitz, Oranienbaum, Luisium, Schloss Wörlitz, D 06786 Wörlitz. Regional art museum with musical instruments. Tel.: 391.
WOLFACH
Heimatmuseum im Schloss, Hauptstrasse 40, D 77709 Wolfach. Regional museum with musical instruments. Tel.: (07834) 97521; 4284. Fax: (07834) 97536.
WUNSIEDEL, Franconia
* Fichtelgebirgsmuseum, Spitalhof 1-2, DW-8592 Wunsiedel.
Fichtelgebirg [spruce mountain range] local administrative union's museum with musical instruments.
WUPPERTAL
Wuppertaler Uhrenmuseum, Poststrasse 11, D 42103 Wuppertal. Clock museum with musical clocks. Tel.: (0202) 493-9924. Fax: (0202) 456710.
ZITTAU
Stadt- und Kreismuseum Zittau, Klosterstrasse 3, D 02763 Zittau.
Regional museum with a collection of musical instruments.
Tel.: 3036.
Museum Viadrina, Carl-Phillipp-Emanuel-Bach-Strasse 11, DO1200 Frankfurt (Oder). District museum with a collection of musical instruments. Tel.: (0335) 2 23 15.
- Hans Menzel, "Die Musikinstrumente auf der...Ausstellung", Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau, (1901/02), 22: 933-36, 971-74, 1004. Amtlicher Katalog der...Ausstellung..zusammengestellt von Richard Kramer. Zittau: [A.Graun], 1902.
ZWICKAU
* Robert-Schumann-Haus, Hauptmarkt 5, D-08056 Zwickau. Composer's house museum with musical instruments. Tel.: 5269.
- Martin Schoppe, "Das Robert-Schumann-Haus in Zwickau", Neue Museumskunde: Theorie und Praxis der Museumsarbeit (1979) 22/2: 102-108.
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