Governing organization: Comune di Acquaviva delle Fonti.

Open: 10-12, 16-20 M-F.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: clarinet, Buffet; 2 tenor saxophones, Meazzi, Orsi; 2 Egyptian trumpets; trumpet, Martez; harmonium; piano (in the band corps of the Scuola di Musica "Don Cesare Franco") cymbal; 2 tympani mallets.

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ALBISSOLA MARINA (SV),

Governing organization: Comune di Novara.

Open: April to September.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: spinette and other keyboard instruments.

History: The provenance of the collection is the Fondo Teatrale Musicale Conte Caccia di Romentino. It belongs to the Comune di Novara.

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ASCOLI PICENO (AP), Marche

Fax: (0736) 298-238.

Governing organization: Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici delle Marche; Comune di Ascoli Piceno.

Primary responsibility: Direttore della Civica Pinacoteca.

Open: in winter: 9-13 daily, 9-12.30 Su and holidays. in summer: 9-13, 15-19.30 weekdays, 9-13 Sa, 16-20 Su.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: 37 bowed string instruments (violin family) including violin by Giuseppe Odoardi, 1723; 13 plucked string instruments (guitars, mandolins, etc., with luthier accessories: violin parts, etc.

History: The museum was founded in 1861 and housed in a palazzo built between 1695 and 1745 by Giuseppe Giosafatti. The museum contains a fine collection of mostly religious-subject paintings purchased from churches and convents abolished after the unification of Italy, works of art on paper and decorative arts as well as musical instruments. The collection of musical instruments was a gift from Prof. Dott. Gioacchino Pasqualini, a violinist, and physicist specializing in musical acoustics. He taught acoustics at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Sta. Cecilia in Rome, and was subsequently appointed superintendant of the Museo degli Strumenti Musicali Antichi e Moderni of the Academy of Sta. Cecilia in Rome. His special interest was the acoustics of bowed stringed instruments, and the differences among the various Italian schools of makers. He was named the first president of the Associazione Nazionale della Liuteria Artistica Italiana (A.N.L.A.I.) In 1967 he divided his large collection of stringed instruments into historic and modern, giving the historic instruments to the Accademia di Sta. Cecilia, and the modern instruments to the Comune di Ascoli Piceno, thereby establishing the Department of Lutherie [Stringed-Instrument Making] at the Civica Pinacoteca.

Riccardo Gabrielli. All'ombra del colle S.Marco. Ascoli Piceno, 1954, pp. 249-261.

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ASOLO (TV), Veneto

Governing organization: Comune di Asolo.

Primary responsibility: direttore; Paola Marini.

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: spinetta attr. Dominicus Pisauriensis, 1650-1700, which belonged to Robert Browning.

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ASSISI

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: Renaissance and Baroque musical instruments including among others: bass recorder; transverse flute; dulcian; cornetto.

Vicenzo De Gregorio, "Il traversiere di Assisi..."; Il flauato dolce, nos. 10, 11, gennaio-giugno 1984.

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BADIA POLESINE (RO),

Governing organization: Comune di Badia Polesine.

Primary responsibility: direttore; Piergiorgio Bressan; Antonio Eugenio.

Open: 8.30-12.30 daily.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: clarinet; "caveja canterina" emiliana; post horn; piston cornet; mandolino; diatonic organetto, early 20th c.; scrandola, and raganella [cog rattles used during Easter week]; bell of the town council, 16th c.

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BARI (BA), Puglie

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: 19th and 20th c. bows, and a string quartet by A. Poggi (some of which have been stolen).

BARI (BA), Puglie

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: African instruments collected by the missions in Africa.

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BARLETTA (BA), Puglie

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: wind and stringed instruments, includinga 19th c. violin; and Rossini memorabilia.

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BERGAMO (BG), Lombardia

Tel.: (035) 237-374.

Governing organization: Comune di Bergamo.

Primary responsibility: direttore; consulente musicale.

Open: 8.30-12, 14-17.30, M-F. Closed Sa, Su. Information sent: 1990, 1994.

Collection: 3 pianos: 2 grands: Bösendorfer, Wien, 1844, and Karl Strobel, Wien, both belonging to Donizetti; a square, Kaspar Lorenz, Wien; various woodwind and brass instruments (piccolo, flute, 2 clarinets, clarinet d'amore, 2 oboes, English horn, trumpet, 2 horns) used in the first performance of Donizetti's Enrico di Borgogna, 1818; 2 harmoniums; violoncello piccolo by Gasparo da Salo` that belonged to Alfredo Piatti; and a contrabass. Also, manuscripts autographs and engraved editions of Donizetti's works, and decorative arts. The museum was established as part of a private bequest in 1902.

History: Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) was born in Bergamo, which was also the birthplace of the Commedia del'Arte.

[Valeriano Sacchiero.] Il Museo Donizettiano di Bergamo. Bergamo: Centro di di Studi Donizettiani [1970].

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BOLOGNA (BO), Emilia-Romagna

Fax: (051) 232-312.

Governing organization: Museo Civico Medievale, Via Manzoni 4 I-40121 Bologna.

Open: 9-14 daily; 9-12.30 holidays.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: four musical instruments: globular flute; harpsichord, Ugo Annibale Traeri, Bologna, 1729; square piano, possibly Italy, last quarter 18th c.; single-pedal-action harp, France, ca. 1805-1825.

A.A.V.V. Museo Civico d' arte industriale e Galleria Davia Bargellini, Renzo Grandi, ed. Bologna, 1987. (Includes the Traeri harpsichord.)

John-Henry van der Meer. Strumenti musicali europea del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna [Bologna], Nuova Alfa Editoriale [1993].

BOLOGNA (BO), Emilia-Romagna

Fax: (051) 232-312. Tel.: (051) 228-912.

Governing organization: Comune di Bologna.

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: 9-13 M-Sa. Closed Su. For the instruments in storage, an appointment requested in writing is necessary.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: about 220 instruments dating from the 15th through the 19th c.: 141 European instruments including: tenor and 3 basset recorders, 16th-17th c.; alto recorder, Hans Schell, Nürnberg, ca. 1710; 2 voice flutes, Peter Bressan, London, ca. 1725; 2 French flageolets, Nürnberg, 17th c.; flûte d'accord; polyphonic flute, Manfredo Settala, Milano, ca. 1650; 13 transverse flutes: tenor, Claude Rafi, Lyon, 1515-53, tenor, France, bass, B.Vasel, ? Germany, both 16th-17th c., others by Carlo Palanca, Torino, ca. 1750, Thomas Lot, Paris, ca. 1780, W. H. Potter, with head by Wm. Wheatstone, London, ca. 1815, 2 flauti d'amore [alto flutes], Lesti, Ancona, early 19th c., 2 piccolos and a flute by Ermenegildo Magazari, Bologna, ca. 1800; 5 oboes: 3 by C. Palanca, 2 ca. 1750, 1 ca. 1780, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Grenser, Dresden, ca. 1810, tenor, Giovanni Panormi, Napoli, ca. 1800; 3 oboi da caccia, 2 by T.I. Weigel, ca. 1750, 1 late 18th c.; 2 English horns, Vincenzo Magazari, Bologna, ca. 1830; 2 bassoons: 1 by Frédéric Triebert, Paris, 1870; 2 double clarinets, 17th c.; 8 single clarinets: Joseph Lesti, Trieste, early 19th c.; 2 by E. Magazari, Bologna, ca. 1805, 2 by Jacques Simiot, Lyon, 2 by Tomaso ? Berti, Bologna, all 4 ca. 1810, G. Brusa, Bologna, ca. 1850, clarinet d'amore, Lange, Torino, ca. 1800, bass clarinet, Adolphe Sax, Paris, ca. 1850, corno da caccia, Bologna, 1495-1500; 4 cornettini, 5 curved cornetti, 2 Venice, corno torto [S-curved cornett], mute cornett, serpent all 16th-17th c., 2 other serpents, anon, and Tomaso Berti, Bologna, both ca. 1800; 5 horns: 2 natural, ca. 1800, 1 con rettorti [with crooks], D. Jahn, Paris, ca. 1830, double cylindrical-valved, Lorenzo dall'Asta, Parma, 1822, 2 rotary-valved, ? Emilia, 2nd quarter 19th c.; keyed trumpet, ? Austria, ca. 1822; psaltery and tuning key, Italy, 18th c.; monochord a quattro corde or tretacordo, Vitus de Trasuntinis, Venezia, 1606; Salzburg zither; 3 tenor lutes: Italy, 2nd half 16th c., Magnus Tieffenbrucker, Venezia, 1612, Italy, 17th c.; bass lute, Michele Harton, Padova, 1599; large octave bass lute, Magno Stegher, Venezia, 1607; 2 archlutes, 1 partly Wendelin Tieffenbrucker, Padova, 1609; 1 Matteo Sellas, Venezia, 1639; theorboed lute, ? Hieronymus Brensius, ? 1st half 17th c.; theorboed lute in the form of a kithara; 2 old-type mandolins, Pietro Antonio Gavelli, Perugia, 1702, Antonio Preda, Venezia, 1806; cittern, Italy, 17th c.; lute guitar; Neapolitan mandolin, Vincenzo Vinaccia, Napoli, 1773; 4 trombe marine, 3 Italy, 17th-18th c., Pieter Rombouts, Amsterdam, 1702; 2 pochettes: sordino, Bapetista Bressano, ? Brescia, late 16th-early 17th c.; en bateau, 17th-18th c.; 2 viole d'amore, one a violetta inglese, Mathias Griesser, Innsbruck, 1727; mute violin; 2 violoncelli; contrabass, Giovanni Floriano Guidanti, 1st 3d 18th c.; 2 triple harps, both Italy, 16th c., and 1625; pedal harp, Godefroi Holtzman, Paris, 1785-1805; harpsichord, Orazio Albana, Roma, 1628; archicembalo, Vitus de Trasuntinis, Venezia, 1606; metallophone, ca. 1800; 2 bells, Bonacursio, 1447, 1453; bell, 1524, 1st half 16th c.; nail violin, Carlo Negri, Parma, 1803.

History: The museum was founded in 1881. Forty percent of the collection (55 instruments) came from the Liceo Musicale, Bologna, between 1866 and 1888; 21 instruments came from the international exhibition of 1888.

Services: general reference library, photographic archives.

Raccolta di antichi strumenti armonici conservati nel Liceo musicale del Comune di Bologna. Bologna, 1880.

Pericale Ducati. Catalogo-guida [di Museo Civico Medievale]. Bologna, 1923.

John-Henry van der Meer, "Die Harfensammlung der Stadt Bologna", Glareana (1989), XXXIX, no. 2: 6-15.

J.-H. van der Meer, "Strumenti musicali europei del Comune di Bologna", Ricercare (1991), III: 231-257.

J.-H. van der Meer, "Gli strumenti musicali europei di età rinascimentale e barocca del Comune di Bologna", Schede umanistiche, Nuova Serie 2 (1992), 2: 95-115.

John-Henry van der Meer. Strumenti musicali europei del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna [Bologna], Nuova Alfa Editoriale [1993].

BOLOGNA (BO), Emilia-Romagna

Primary responsibility: Bibliotecario.

Information sent: 1993.

Collection: pianos: grand, Jean-Baptist and Sébastien Erard, 1811, Erard, 1874, Camille Pleyel, ca. 1844; Henri Herz, ca. 1860, all Paris; 3 square pianos: Josephus Glonner, München, 1780, 2 are probably German, last quarter 18th c.; oboe and case, Pascal Riva, E. Gherardi, Ferrara, ca. 1890.

John-Henry van der Meer. Strumenti musicali europea del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna [Bologna], Nuova Alfa Editoriale [1993].

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BRESCIA (BS), Lombardia

Governing organization: Comune di Brescia.

Primary responsibility: Ufficio economato.

Open: to researchers by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: 14 violins, 3 violas, 4 violoncelli, 2 double basses (Maggini, Gasparo da Salo`); brass and woodwinds.

BRESCIA (BS), Lombardia

Open: 14.30-19.30, M-F.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: about 135 instruments, including copies of Brescian bowed and plucked strings; violin, Benoist Fleury, Paris, 1752; bowed melodeon, Michael Mowj, Vienna, 19th c.; 7/8th violin, Joannes Gagliano, Naples, 1864; contrabass, Stefano Scarampella, Brescia, 1895; bass lute, Matteo Reilich, Brescia, 1641; guitars: Philippus Guarmandi, Bononiensis, 1792, Francois Bastian, Turino, anon., Turino, 18th c., Raffaele and Antonio Gagliano, Napoli, Francesco Mosca, Bologna, 1807, Gregorio Trentin, Venezia, 1808, Josef Pages, Cadiz, 1814, Antonio Donegatti, Venezia, 1875, Luigi e fratelli Rovetta, Bergamo, Antonio Rovetta, Bergamo, Emilio Camanni, Bergamo; harp guitars: attr. Mozzani, Edward Light, 1816; guitars with 3 bordoni, Giuseppe Pedrazzini, Milano, Leonardo Cocchi, Milano; 3 lute guitars; chitarra battente by Giovanni Pietro Mora, Bagolino, 1777; bass guitar by E. Ventura; futuristic guitar, Francesco Olivieri, Catania, 1929; keyed guitar, Frantelli Gennaro & Achille Vinaccia fu Pasquale, Napoli, 1889; mandolins by Gaetano Vinaccia, Napoli, 1780, Antonio Nonzino, Milano, early 19th c., Gennaro Maglioni, Napoli, Secchi Eliseo, Carate Brianza; mandoloncello, Vizzari, Milano, 1929, mandola, Vizzari Milano, 1928; bandurria; Portuguese mandolino; banjos; accordeons, melodeons, organetti, balalaika; zithers; European and non-Western winds, strings, percussion; virginals, Brescia, 18th c.; square piano by Johann Jakesch, Vienna, 19th c.; various forms and tools for making stringed instruments.

History: The museum specializes in the history of plucked stringed instruments, in particular the guitar, and Brescian makers. It is dedicated to the work of Brescian makers as Gasparo da Salo`, Maggini, Pellegrino, Benti, etc. The museum was opened in 1956 by Virginio Cattaneo with help from citizens and the support of the Ateneo di Brescia. In 1986 the Ateneo conferred a diploma of merit on the museum for the promotion of artistic activities. Events have included "Guitar Weeks" in 1975 and 1976, the "Biennale della Chitarra", 1981 and 1984; "Primavera della Liuteria Bresciana", 1988; "Poesia e Musica" and "Nonsolomusica nelle Corti", 1989. Courses have been offered on the Lombardy Region, 1976; musical instrument and melodrama, 1982; and the municipality of Brescia, 1988.

Services: conservation; concerts; exhibitions; courses; library including 7000 scores of guitar music, mostly 19th c.

1 a Rassegna Nazionale di Strumenti a Pizzico, 9-17 Febbraio 1985. 1985 Anno Europeo della Musica. Brescia, Comune di Brescia, 1985.

Tiziano Rizzi, "Un esempio di `Grossoktav Basslaute'", Liuteria (December, 1985), V, no. 15, pp. 26-33.

Virginio Cattaneo, "La Liuteria Bresciana: Chitarra battente di G.P. Mora", Commentari dell'Ateneo di Brescia, 1986.

Virginio Cattaneo, "La Chitarra Battente di Gio. Pietro Mora nel Museo chitarristico e Musicale di Brescia", Liuteria (December, 1987) VII, no. 21, pp. 29-33.

Claudio Amighetti. Caratteristiche degli Strumenti ad Arco Bresciani. Atti del 1o Convegno Nazionale di Studi sulla Liuteria Bresciana, 28 Maggio 1988. Brescia: Ateneo di Brescia, 1988.

Guida ai Musei della Provincia di Brescia. Brescia, 1989, pp. 71-74.

2a Rassegna Nazionale di Strumenti a Pizzico, nel 450o anniversario della Nascita di Gasparo da Salo`, 5-13 Maggio, 1990. Brescia, Fondazione C.A.B. Istituto di Cultura giovanni Folonari, 1990.

Museo Strumenti Musicali Liuteria Bresciana. Brescia, [n.d.]

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BRUGHERIO (MI), Lombardia

Primary responsibility: Fermo Galbiati, Fondatore e Presidente.

Open: by appointment only, preferably on holidays or the days just before.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: The museum contains 3 collections of musical objects. 1. There are some 250 free reed organs and accordeons dating from the 19th c. through the 1960s, including one of the earliest reed organs, by Paolo Soprani, Castelfidaro, and includes instruments from various Italian schools of free reed organ making, Stradella, Vercelli and Torino as well as Castelfidaro. The collection of accordeons were made primarily in Middle Europe; many of which found a vast market of purchasers among the working class in South America. 2. There are some 200 phonographs and gramophones documenting the technical evolution of sound machines and includes from the Edison "tinfoil" player to the early electric hi-fi systems, as well as a gramophone that anticipates the development of the radio with an antenna that produces sound at some distance, gramophones with horological works. All are in working order. Also included are 12,000 cylinders and disks (78 and 33 r.p.m.), and 100 tin boxes containing pinned cylinders of various materials. 3. Mechanical musical instruments: some 30 player pianos, operated with cylinders and paper cards and rolls, and some also can be directly played.

History: Fermo Galibati has been researching, collecting, refining, restoring, exhibiting and demonstrating his musical instruments collection. The collection is in the process of being catalogued and the principal part exhibited. The museum also contains other types of objects, including: the principal collection of Italian bicycles; a department of natural-history; a horological collection; typewriters; sewing machines; cinema projectors; motors and automobiles, as well as numerous reconstruction / restoration workshops.

Services: exhibitions, including travelling exhibitions in Italy and Switzerland; restoration; seminars; publications; photographs; concerts, and interpretative exhibition materials.

Fermo Galbiati and Nino Ciravegna. Fisarmoniche-Physarmonicas. Milano: Be. Ma. Editrice, 1987.

Nino Ciravegna. Fonografi e Grammofoni. Orsa Maggiore Editrice. Bergamo: Lucchetti Editore, [n.d.].

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BUSSETO (PR), Emilia-Romagna

Governing organization: Comune di Busseto, Provincia di Parma.

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: 9.30-12.30, 15-19 daily; in winter: 9.30-12, 14.30-17, closed M.

Information sent: 1993.

Collection: 5 instruments: transverse flute, Louis Lot, Paris, ca. 1855; bassoon, contrabassoon, both 1800-1850 from the Barezzi house; contrabass, early 19th c., belonged to Maestro Provesi, Verdi's first maestro; harpsichord, once with a pedal keyboard with 9 keys, probably Italy, 17th c., on which as a youth G. Verdi is said to have practiced at the Chiesa dei Frati; grand piano, 1800-1850 from the house of Verdi's first wife.

History: The house was occupied by Verdi, and the museum is devoted to him.

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CAMERANO (AN), Marche

Governing organization: Comune di Camerano, Piazza Roma, 27, I-60021 Camerano.

Primary responsibility: Biblioteca Comunale.

Open: 16.30-19.30 Tu, F.

Information sent: 1991, 1994.

Collection: A small collection of free-reed instruments dating from the 19th c. to the 1940s and includes instruments labelled "Soprani Settimio", "Lucio", Gigli Nazzareno & Fi", "Silvio", "Settimio Soprani", Castelfidardo; "Lucarini Luigi", "Scandalli", "Silvio Scandalli & Flli", Camerano, Ancona. Also included is a collection of photographs of the factory interior of Scandalli, Camerano from the 1940s documenting the various phases of fabrication of the instruments.

History: During the first half of the 20th c., Camerano was one of the most important centers for the building of free-reed instruments by such makers as Scandali. The town's growth, extending the city limits to Castelfidardo, is a direct result of the success of the free-reed-instrument trade.

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CAPALBO (GR),

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994. Collection: grand piano, 7 pedals, by Conrad Graf on which Puccini composed the 1st version of Tosca.

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CAPRERA ISOLA (SS),

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: 9-13.30 Tu-Sa; 9-12.30 Su and holidays. Closed M.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: on exhibition: music boxes, gramophones, player piano, and piano.

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CASTELNUOVO DON BOSCO (AT),

Open: 9.30-12.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: on exhibition: xylophone, tam tam.

CASTELFIDARDO (AN), Marche

Civico Museo Internazionale della Fisarmonica, Piazza della Repubblica 10, I-60022 Castelfidardo. Tel: (071) 782-2987.

Governing organization: Comune di Castelfidardo.

Open: 9-30-12, 15.30-18 daily in winter; 9.30-12, 15-18 daily in summer.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: some 200 free-reed instruments from the world over.

Z. Frati, B. Bugiolacchi, M. Moroni. Castelfidardo e la storia della fisarmonica. Castelfidardo, 1986.

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CASTELLAR (CN),

Open: 14-18, and by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: military trumpets.

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CODROIPO (UD)

Open: 9-12, 14-17 winter; 9-12, 15-18 summer. Closed M.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: percussion, Africa; drum, Japan, 18th c.; palassa, karakasse, makunhari, tagare, kurukue, massakua, marimba, Mozambique; zamr, Libia; launeddas, Sardinia.

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CATANIA (CT), Sicilia

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: 9-13, daily, weekends and holidays.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: includes spinette, fortepianos, violins.

History: Vicenzo Bellini (1801-1835) was born in Catania.

Publication: John-Henry van der Meer, "A Curious Instrument with a five-octave compass", Early Music, (August 1986) XIV, no. 3, pp. 397-402.

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COMO (CO), Lombardia

Governing organization: Musei Civici Como, Comune di Como.

Open: in summer: 9.30-12, 14.30-17.30 Tu-Sa; 9-12, Su. Closed M. in winter: 9.30-12.30, 14-17 Tu-Sa; 9-12 Su. Closed M.

Information sent: 1993.

Collection: 2 trumpets; fortepiano, Pasquale Ricci, 18th c.; two-manual organ, 1795, from the Convento dei Cappuccini di Dongo.

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CORTINA d'AMPEZZO (BL), Veneto

Primary responsibility: direttore; presidente de Regole d'Ampezzo.

Open: the museum: 16-19.30 summer; 16-19 winter. Closed Su. For the instruments (in storage): by appointment.

Information sent: 1993.

Collection: 2 guitars, ca. 1930; mandolin; 3 violins: 1 by Giuseppe (?) Menardi de Vico, 2 by Rinaldo Colle, ca. 1950, all made in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

History: The museum was inaugurated in 1975 and dedicated to the lives and traditions of the people of Cortina d'Ampezzo and the city's 1000-year history. Cortina d'Ampezzo is the capital of the Dolomites.

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COSENZA

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: to researchers by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: popular Calabresi examples of zampogne, chitarra di ferula, toy instruments.

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COTIGNOLA (RA),

Governing organization: Comune di Cotignola.

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: chitarrone, 4 double basses, all 18th c.

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CREMONA (CR), Lombardia

Fax: (0372) 41 27 30

In 1920 the luthier Giussepe Fior acquired the collection of relics [belonging] by Stradivaqrius from the Marquese Pauola n Torino. In April of 1930 the same woman gave to the civic Museum of Cremona represented by the director Iamo Cammelli the entire cimeli [antiques] of the grand luthiers. On the 126 Oct 1930 Sen. Aflfredo Rocco then Min. of Justice inaugurated the "Sala Stradivariana" in the Palazzo Afficata. Very shortly thereafter the cite of the civic museums. Subsequently the Museo Stradivariano was transformed into the Palazzo del Arte. And in 1979 it was finally located in the Sale formerly occupied by the Archivio di Stato on the Via Palestro. At this site the precious material / objects wree catagorized and arranged / ordered under the auspieces of the Fondazione Walter Staufer. Among the most interesting [riperti: artifacts objects] the frame in walnut exhibited in the 2d room / teca from which Stradivarius created the [ ] of 1715 now conserved in the Palazzo Cremona.
- The original fingerboard of the "Soil" is contained in case no 3
- The design for the construction of a harp which compliments the case no. 9: the conservatory Naples... and the Paris museum posess the 2 known examples of harps made from these models.
- The violin designs for decoration and the intarsio of violins violas and `cellos in the same 13th case contains a note dated the 25th of May 1698 with an autograph signature of Stradivarius

Museo Stradivariano Included are the form on which Stradivari created his violin "Il Cremonese", 1715, preserved in the Palazzo Comunale, the original neck of the violin "Il Soil", 1714, the form for constructing Strad's tenor viola of 4 Oct. 1690, models for the tenor viola "Medicea", drawings for a harp (the two known examples are in the Conservatorio di Musica di Napoli, and the Museum of the Paris Conservatoire) as well as other drawings and fittings for Cremonese stringed instruments.

CREMONA

Governing organization: Comune di Cremona.

Primary responsibility: Conservatore.

Open: 8:30-17:00. Holidays 9-13. Closed Mon.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: in two parts: primary documents of Stradivari and his work, including his tools, studies, and designs; and musical instruments including about 60 instruments and bows, including bowed and plucked instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries: three quartets, 1 trio, 19 violins, 1 pochette, 9 viola, 2 viole d'amore, 1 viola da gamba, 5 violoncelli, 1 basetto, 6 contrabasses, 5 mandolins, 3 guitars, 3 keyboard instruments. The important violins owned by the city including "Il Cremonese", ex-Joachim by Antonio Stradivari 1715; "l'Hammerle"; Niccola Amati, 1658; "Carol IX di Francia", Andrea Amati, 1566; "Il Quarestani" by Giuseppe Guarini son of Andrea, 1689; and that by Giuseppe Guarneri, called "del Gesù", 1734 are exhibited in the Palazzo Communale.

History: The documents are exhibited at the Museo Stradivariano; the instruments at Palazzo Comunale.

Giorgio Sommi Picenardi. Notizette biografiche sui liutati cremonesi. Atti e communicazione dal Circolo di Studi Cremoneis, 1. [?Cremona, 1898.]

Hill, W.F., A.F. and A.E. Antonio Stradivari, His Life and Work. London, W.E. Hill & Sons, 1902; repr: New York: Dover [1963].

CREMONA (CR), Lombardia

Governing organization: Comune di Cremona.

Primary responsibility: Conservatore dei Beni Liutari della città di Cremona.

Open: 9-12, 15-19 daily. Closed Su afternoon.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: violin "Carolo IX di Francia", Andrea Amati, Cremona, 1566; violin "the Hammerle", Niccolo` Amati, 1658; violin "Il Quarestani" by Giuseppe Guarini, son of Andrea, 1689; the violin "Il Cremonese", ex-Joachim, Antonio Stradivari, 1715; violin "Stauffer", Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, 1734.

History: An exhibition was held in the Palazzo Communale in 1987, from 26 August to 7 October 1987, in recognition of the 250th anniversary of the death of Stradivari. E. Santoro, A. Mosconi, E. Quiresi. I violini del Palazzo Comunale. Cremona, 1982.

Musei a Cremona. 2d ed. Cremona, 1895.

Andrea Mosconi, Marco Tanzi, Marco Tiella. Il Palazzo Comunale di Cremona. [Milano], Electa Lombardia, [1992].

CREMONA (CR), Lombardia

State institution with a collection of musical instruments. Tel.: (0372) 27 129.

Fax: (0372) 41 27 30.

Governing organization: Istituzione Pubblica Statale del Ministero di Pubblica Istruzione.

Primary responsibility: presidente dell' Istituto; direttore. Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: about 100 instruments including: bowed stringed instruments of various types, stringed instruments with various provenances; reconstructions of historic instruments, tools, drawings and models, didactic interpretative panels about the construction of instruments, designs and books about luthiery.

History: The museum was opened in 1974 in order to collect the best work of the Institute's pupils; instruments were donated by old luthiers. The institute is a center of information and orientation on the history of stringed-instrument building in Cremona.

Gualtero Nicolini. The International School of Cremona: Two Score Years of Violin-Making. Helen Palmer, transl. [Cremona: Edizioni Stradivari, 1978].

CREMONA (CR), Lombardia

Governing organization: Comune di Cremona.

Primary responsibility: Direttore; Conservatore dei Beni Liutari della città di Cremona.

Open: 9:30-12.15, 15-17.45 Tu-Sa; 9.30-12.15 Su. Closed Mon.

Information sent: 1989-1992.

Collection: Drawings, models, molds, fittings and various tools, that document the work of Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737), and bowed and plucked stringed instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries; and instruments that won prizes at the Triennali Internatzionali degli strumenti del arco from 1976 onwards.

History. The Museum was founded in 1930. It is supported by the Fondazione "Walter Stauffer". In 1920 the luthier Giuseppe Fiorini acquired the collection of Stradivari documents from the Marchesa Paola della Valle of Pomaro in Torino. Earlier the collection had belonged to Count Ignazio Alesandro Cozio di Salabue (1755-1840), who had purchased it from Stradivari's son Paolo. In April of 1930, Fiorini gave his collection to the Museo Civico of Cremona, where it was integrated with the collection of stringed instruments by Cremonese makers. In 1979 it was again separated and installed in its present location.

Sacchi, Federico. il Conte Cozio di Salabue. Cenni biografici di questo colletore d'instrumenti ad arco. London: G.Hart (Milano: tip. Cogliati), 1898. English translation, with appendix containing his unpublished manuscript and letters to Vincenzo Lancetti on the Cremonese School. A. Towry Piper, ed. London: Dulau & Co., 1898.

Giuseppe Roberti. "Un mecenate della liuteria: Il Conte Cozio di Salabue", Gazzetta musicale di Milano (1899) 54: 420-423.

Woldemar Oberberg. "Der Werkstatt-Nachlass des Stradivarius", Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau, (1937-38), 58: 250-52, 267-68, 325-26.

E.N.D. "Count Cozio di Salabue", Violins and Violinists (1941) 3: 105-6, 136-39.

Möller, Max, Jr. "Voorbereiding tot de Stradivarius-tentoonstelling te Cremona", Mens en melodie (1947), 2: 337-40.

Ignazio Allessandro Cozio di Salabue. Carteggio. Trascrizione di Renzo Bacchetta. Autorizata dal Museo Civico di Cremona.... Milano: S.p.A.A. Cordani, 1950.

Benvenuto Disertori. "Collezionismo settecentesco e il carteggio del Conte di Salamue", Revista musicale italiana (1951) 53: 315-22.

Patrizia Frisoli. "The Museo Stradivariano in Cremona", GSJ (1971) 24: 33-50. 33-50.

Simone F. Sacconi. I segreti di Stradivari. Con il catalogo dei cimeli stradivariani del Museo. ... Cremona: Libreria del Convegno, 1972. [German translation, see below.]

Bacchetta, Renzo. Stradivari no e nato nel 1644; vita e opere del celebre liutaro. La Sala Stradivariana del Museo Civico di Cremona. Cozio di Salabue. ... [Cremona: Stab. tip. soc. ed. "Cremona nova", 1973.]

Simone F. Sacconi. Die Geheimnisse Stradivaris. Mit dem Katalog des Stradivari-Nachlasses. ... [translated by] Olga Adelmann. Fachbuchreihe Das Musikinstrument, Bd. 31. Frankfurt-am-Main: Verlag Das Musikinstrument, 1976.

Charles Beare. Capolavori di Antonio Stradivari. Cremona, Palazzo Comunale, 26 agosto - 7 ottobre 1987. Milano, 1987. Van der Meer, "Gli strumenti straordinari di Antonio Stradivari", Liuteria Musica Cultura (aprile 1990) XXVIII: 5-19.

CREMONA (CR), Lombardia

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: positiv organ, harpsichord, fortepiano, pianos.

CREMONA (CR), Lombardia

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: mandolins of the Neapolitan School.

CREMONA (CR), Lombardia

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: 2 pianos, one that belonged to A. Ponchielli.

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FAENZA (RA), Emilia Romagna

Primary responsibility: Direttore.

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: 50 musical instruments including: flutes; brass instruments; pochette; 2 violas; violone; hurdy-gurdy; 2 spinette, 16th, 17th c.; fortepiano; carillon; non-Western instruments. Photograph archives, collection of images of musical personalities, theatrical scene designs.

History: The museum was given to the city in 1931 and was installed on the ground floor of the library. In 1960 the building was renovated, the museum was raised half a storey higher and opened to the public. In 1984 it was moved to the Palazzo Milzetti. Currently the museum is being renovated again and is closed to the public.

P. Zama, "Museo Teatrale", Bollettino della biblioteca degli archivi storici e dei musei (1932), pp. 14-16.

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FELTRE (BL), Veneto

Fax: (0439) 81 757 (Comune di Feltre).

Governing organization: Comune di Feltre.

Primary responsibility: Conservatore dei Musei di Feltre.

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: clarinet, Kaspar Tauber (1758-1827), Vienna; clarinet, Menzenhauser; harpsichord; grand piano by Bartolomeo Cosmer, Vienna, ca. 1830; square piano by Masckl. Bur, ca. 1850.

History: The musical instruments are bequests or donations from local citizens.

Services: exhibitions, museum photo archive, restoration of the Cosmer fortepiano (in progress).

L. Bentivoglio. I Mobili del Museo Civico di Feltre, 1st ed. Feltre: Regione Veneto, 1979.

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FERRARA (FE), Emilia-Romagna

Tel.: (0532) 20 74 50.

Governing organization: Musei Civici di Arte Antica, Ferrara.

Primary responsibility: direttore, Musei Civici di Arte Antica di Ferrara.

Open: daily and holidays 9-12:30; 14-17 summer; 15-18 winter. Information sent: 1993.

Collection: two instruments: mandola, psaltery, both 17th c.

History: The museum is housed in a single-storey palace, built 1559, where Marfisa d'Este entertained her friends, including Tasso.

Ranieri Varese. "Ferrara Palazzina Marfisa", Musei d'Italia... Meraviglie d'Italia. Bologna: Calderini editore, 1980, pp. 33, 64.

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FIRENZE (FI), Toscana

Primary responsibility: direttore artistico; restauratore.

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: 13 English and Viennese fortepianos, including: grands by John Broadwood & Sons, London, ca. 1835; made in Wien: Bösendorfer, ca. 1845, Conrad Graf, 1815, Johann Schantz, ca. 1790; Lange, ca. 1835; Simon, Schrimpf, both ca. 1840. Two square pianos: Longman & Broderip, London, ca.1790; anonymous, n.p., n.d.; upright, Henri Pape, Paris & London, ca. 1840. There are also keyboard instruments on loan.

History: In 1989 a group of musical-instrument enthusiasts founded the Accademia for the purpose of documenting the first 130 years of the piano's existence (1700-1830).

Services: concert series (25 concerts presented between 1990 and 1992), conferences, courses, permanent and temporary exhibitions, conservation, technical drawings, photographs.

Antonella Boralevi, "Alla scoperta del fortepiano", Il Messaggero, 1991.

M. Dallai, L. Orlando, "Tutti gli amici del fortepiano", Qualità (Maggio, 1991), pp. 114-117.

Pietro Acquafredda, "Accademia del fortepiano", Quigiovani, 29 viii 1991. Diane Melville, "Ritorna il `fortepiano' e potremo ascoltarlo", Verdedomani, no. 9 (Sept. 1991), pp. 19-21.

Donatella Righini, "Un'Accademia per gli amici del `fortepiano'", Toscanaoggi, 29 ix 1991.

Barbara Malipiero, "Si fa musica attorno al fortepiano", Weekend viaggi, Ottobre, 1991.

Paolo Russo, "Per le antiche scale, tornano a suonare i fortepiano del '700", La Repubblica, 3 Ottobre 1991.

Leonardo Pinzuauti, "Emoziona hammer poeta del fortepiano", La Nazione, 21 xi 1991.

Leonardo Pinzuauti, "Musiche e strumenti rari per riscoprire un'epoca", La Nazione, 30 v 1992.

Grand piano, Conrad Graf, Wien, ca. 1820, serial no. 362. Raffaele Reale Castello delineavit 1988, 4 pp. Acc. no. 3, Firenze. Accademia Bartolommeo Cristofori (ABC). Grand piano keyboard, F. Hofmann, Wien, ca.1790. Raffaele Reale Castello del., 1988, 1 p. Clavichord, J.M. Bühler, Vaihingen, Germany, 1803. Raffaele Reale Castello del., 1988, 1 p. Harpsichord, Italy, 1537. Donatella de Giampietro and Emile Jobin del., 1987, 1 p. Tape recordings of the 25 concerts presented by ABC between 1990 and 1992. Opera omnia per chitarra e fortepiano di Mario Giuliani (1781-1828), Francesco Romano, guitar (copy of one by Fabbricatore) and Daniela Costa, fortepiano: Conrad Graf, Wien, ca. 1820.

FIRENZE (FI), Toscana

Governing organization: Comune di Firenze, Musei e Patrimonio Artistico.

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: 9-13, F-W. Closed Th.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: 27 musical instruments, including 18 string, 6 wind, 2 keyboard and 1 percussion. Some of the more important instruments are: recorder, 17th c.; bass recorder, I.C. Denner, after 1650; buccin, Tabard, Lyon, early 19th c.; serpent, 17th c.; 2 lyre guitars, 18th c.; liutino by Tobia Fiscer, 1621; arch-cittern by Gironimo Campi, 18th c. copy; psaltery (in Galleria Corsi); hurdy gurdy, 18th c.; lute, Magno Tieffenbrucker, 1609; lute now a mandola, Wendelin II Tieffenbrucker, early 17th c.; 2 theorbi, Giovanni Tesler, Ancona, 1621 (damaged in the flood), M. Buchenberg; guitar, Nicola Amati, 17th c. (also flood-damaged); violin, 18th c.; harpsichord by Joannes Baptiste Bertarinus Pisaurensis, Roma, 1577; orphica, 19th c.; drum 15th c.

History: The collection was inaugurated in 1924 when the museum was opened to the public. It was damaged during the 1966 floods, but much has been saved.

Services: guided tours, educational programs, sale of photographs, concert series on some instruments from the collection.

Publications: a catalogue is in progress.

FIRENZE (FI), Toscana

Open: 9-14 Tu-Sa, 9-13 Su, holidays. Closed M.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: 3 ivory cornetti, one 16th c. from the Congo now in the Antiche Collezioni Medicee.

FIRENZE (FI), Toscana

Governing organization: Conservatorio di Musica "Luigi Cherubini".

Primary responsibility: Curatore.

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: 221 instruments; all European art musical instruments, except for 24 non-European, these mainly from Asia and Africa. It includes a group of highly important instruments made for the Medici Court between 1640 and 1713 (the death of Granprincipe Ferdinando); as well as later instruments. The Medici group includes the following by Antonio Stradivari: the violin "Medici", 1716; a tenor viola "Viola Medicea", 1690; a violin by Nicola Amati, Cremona, 1662; a violoncello, 1690; violoncelli by Nicola Amati, 1660, and Fabrizio Senta, Torino, end of 17th c. Other significant instruments include the following violins: Giuseppe Guarneri (attr.), Cremona, 1736; violoncello, Alessandro Gagliano (attr.), Naples, contrabasses by Bartolommeo Cristofori, Firenze, 1715; Bartolomeo Castellani, Florentiae, 1792; anonymous tromba marina, ca. 1800; hurdy gurdy by J.N. Lambert, Paris, 1775; an important collection of bows; chitarra battente, ca. 1700; arpicordo, Benedetto Floriani, 1618; harpsichord, Longman & Broderip, London, 1785; vertical piano (clavicytherium shape), Domenico del Mela, Galliano nel Mugello near Firenze, 1739; piccoli by F.G.A.Kirst, Potsdam, and Stengel, Bayreuth, flutes by I.F. Engelhard, all 2d half of 18th c.; 3 flutes of Briccialdi system, and one of Giorgi type, all 19th c.; English horn and a bassoon by A. Grenser, Dresden, 2nd half 18th c.; bassoon, H. Grenser & Wiesner, Dresden; basset horns by Stengel (2), Bayreuth, ca. 1800, and Kies, Wien, early 19th c.; serpent, Lorenzo Cerino, Torino end 18th c.; various brasses, and non-Western instruments.

History: Founded in 1863, opened 1911. The museum contains collections from Ferdinando dé Medici, Granprincipe di Tuscano; the Palazzo Pitti, Firenze; L.F. Casamorata; the contessa Editta Rucellai and others. Part of the collection was exhibited at Palazzo Vecchio in 1980, which occasioned the catalogue. In 1994 a large part of the collection was exhibited in the Palazzo Vecchio.

Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, "Relazione di antichi e speciosi strumenti donati al R. Istituto dal Cav. Vittorio Mahillon....", Atti dell'Accademia del R. Istituto musicale di Firenze (1880) 18: 116-118.

Giovanni de Piccolellis. Della autenticità e pregio di taluni strumenti ad arco appartenenti al R. Istituto musicale di Firenze. Atti dell'Accademia del R. Istituto musicale di Firenze, Anno XXVII. Firenze: tip. Galletti e Cocci, 1889.

Federico Sacchi, "Gli strumenti di Stradivari alla Corte Medicea", Gazzetta musicale di Milano (June 5, 1892), 23: 367-69.

Leto Bargagna. Gli Strumenti Musicali raccolti nel Museo del R. Instituto L. Cherubini a Firenze. Firenze, 1911.

Arnaldo Bonaventura, "Cimeli bibliografici e strumenti musicali all'Esposizione del R. Istituto musicale di Firenze", La Bibliofilia (1912-13) 14: 46-60.

Adelmo Damerini. Esposizione nazionale dei conservatori musicali e delle biblioteche Palazzo Davanzati, 27 ottobre 1949-8 gennaio 1950. Firenze: Barbèra, 1950.

Luigi Parigi, "L'esposizione musicale a Palazzo Davanzati", Arte mediterranea (nov.-dic. 1949), pp. 23-25.

Vinicio Gai. Gli Strumenti Musicali della Corte Medicea e il Museo del Conservatorio "L. Cherubini" di Firenze. Firenze: Licosa, 1969.

Frederick Hammond, "Musical Instruments at the Medici Court in the Mid-seventeenth Century", Studien zur italienisch-deutschen Musikgeschichte, Koeln, (1975), X: 203,ff. Also in: Analecta musicologica (1975) 15: 202-219.

[Mario Fabbri, Leonardo Pinzauti, Vinicio Gai.] Antichi Strumenti dalla raccolta dei Medici e dei Lorena alla formazione del Museo del Conservatorio di Firenze. Firenze, Palazzo Vecchio, [1980; 3d ed. 1981]. (good bibl.)

FIRENZE (FI), Toscana

Governing organization: Università di Firenze.

Primary responsibility: direttore, conservatori.

Open: 9-13 Th-Sa, and the 3d Su of the month.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: 152 instruments from throughout the world, including an ivory and leather horn, 1539.

Nello Puccioni, "Gli oggetti musicali del Museo Nazionale di Antropologia", Archivo per la Antropologia e la Etnologia (1906), 36, fasc. 1, pp. 59-84.

Il Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze. Firenze, Parretti Grafiche, 1987

[Catalogue in preparation.]

FIRENZE (FI), Toscana

Primary responsibility: direttore. Open: guided visits 9-13 F-W, (partial tours Su). Closed Th.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: flutes, 18th c.; harp; harpsichord, polygonal arpicordo both Italy, 17th c.; harpsichord, Conrad Fleischer, Hamburg, probably 1722; military drums; jingling johnny.

FIRENZE (FI), Toscana

Catalogo degli strumenti del Museo di Storia della Scienza. Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1954.

Florence, see Firenze

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FONTANELLATO (PR),

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: 9.30-12.30, 15-19, Tu-Su. Closed M.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: small harpsichord, 18th c., that belonged to Maria Luigia.

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FORLÌ (FO), Emilia-Romagna

Governing organization: Comune di Forlì. Istuti Culturali ed Artistici della Cittá di Forlì.

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: 9-14 Tu-Sa.; 9-13 Su; closed M.

Information sent: 1993.

Collection: includes some 30 violins, one by Balistrieri, 1772, and various instruments made by Forlì makers for the Paganinis (Giuseppe II, Luigi, Alba and M.A.). Also: a viola, violoncello, contrabass; 6- and 9-string guitars; Neapolitan and Milanese mandolins; banjo; free-reed organ, 18th c.; Erard harp, English harp; 3 ocarinas; 9 clarinets; saxophone; 4 cornets; valved tenor cornet; 3 trumpets, one fanfare; 2 horns, one a double with six valves; 2 trombones; tuba; autoharp, 2 grand pianos: Ios. Paw. L.H., Wien, 1802, and anonymous, Vienna, 1830, having belonged to pianists Adele Cimatti and Angelo Masini respectively; and 2 upright pianos having belonged to Forlì citizens.

History: Forlì has a strong tradition of musical-instrument making. The collection of musical instruments was begun with donation of instruments by a stringed-instrument making family, and added to by various townspeople.

[Walter Vichi]. Forlì: Città d'Arte. [Forlì], Comune di Forlì [n.d.].

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GALLIPOLI (LE),

Governing organization: Comune di Gallipoli.

Open: 9-13, 16-20 M-Sa, 9-13 Su. Information sent: 1994.

Collection: transverse flute, Leoni, ca. 1750; pantarmonicum, 4 keyboards con brevetto, 19th c.; plaster trumpet.

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GARDONE RIVIERA (BS), Lombardia

Governing organization: Fondazione "Il Vittoriale degli Italiani".

Primary responsibility: presidente.

Open: 9-12.30, 14-18, daily.

Information sent: 1993.

Collection: occarina, theorbo, 18th c.; balalaika; 2 harmoniums; grand piano, Steinway.

History: The revolutionary poet Gabriele d'Annunzio once lived in the Villa Vittoriale. His mauseoleum is there, and the museum is dedicated to his life and works.

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GENOVA (GE), Liguria

Governing organization: Istituto Mazziniano.

Primary responsibility: direttore. Open: 9-19.30, M-Sa; 9-13 Su. Closed M.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: guitar, Gennaro Fabricatore, 1821, that belonged to Giuseppe Mazzini.

Leo Morabito. Museo del Risorgimento - Catalogo. 2d ed. Genova, Comune di Genova, Assessorato alle istituzioni e attività culturali, 1988.

GENOVA (GE), Liguria

Primary responsibility: conservatore.

Open: 9-13 weekdays.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: violin, Guarneri del Gesù, 1742, that belonged to Niccolo` Paganini.

GENOVA (GE), Liguria

Governing organization: Comune di Genova.

Primary responsibility: direttore del Museo; curatore.

Open: 9-13, 14-19, Tu-Sa; 9-12.30, every other Su. Closed: all Tu; Easter, August holiday, Christmas, 1 January.

Information sent: 1993.

Collection: 20 Japanese and Chinese instruments: hitoyogiri [small end-blown flute]; bamboo-and-iron flute used for war; laquered flute; choshifue [small, 6-pipe mouth organ]; sho [12-pipe mouth-organ]; 2 shamisen [long-necked lute]; 2 biwa, one China; 1 ichi-genkin [single-stringed zither]; ni-genkin [2-stringed zither]; hangoto [13-stringed zither for travel]; hu ch'in [spike fiddle, 4-string] and bow, China; horizontal harp, China; mokkin, [xylophone, 15 keys]; unra [10-piece hammered gong]; kakko, [barrel drum]; daiko [large barrel drum].

History: The collection of Japanese and Chinese instruments are part of the collection of Edoardo Chiossone (1833-1898), assembled during his residence in Japan, 1875-1898. An engraver and painter, he founded and directed the new Poligrafico del Ministero del Tesoro, contributing to the modernization of the "Meiji reform". The instruments were exhibited between 1904 and 1941 at the nearby Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti. In 1971, the Museo d'Arte Orientale "E. Chiossone" was opened and the musical instruments were returned.

O Grosso. Il Museo Chiossone di Genova. Roma, Libreria dello Stato, 1934, p. 24, fig.a, p.70.

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ISOLA BELLA (NO), near Stresa

Primary responsibility: Piergiacomo Pisoni, archivist.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: archlute M. Tieffenbrucker, 1582; tromba marina; viola da gamba, possibly Peregrino Zanetto; harpsichord, Italy, 17th c.; square piano, 18th c.; 3 fortepianos, ca. 1800, J.F. Ries, ca. 1835, J. Heitzmann, ca. 1870; Baroque positive organ (in the chapel); barrel organ, late 19th c.; church bell; Etruscan bells; and 3 paintings of musical subjects.

History: Palazzo Borromeo near Stresa on one of the four islands in Lago Maggiore owned by the Borromeo family is the repository of the the family's archives and art works.

Laurence Libin and Kathryn Shanks Libin, "Musical Instruments at Isola Bella", Early Music, (Nov. 1990) XVIII, no. 4: 617-623.

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ISTRANA (TV),

Governing organization: Museo Civico di Treviso.

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: 9-12, Tu, F; 9-12, 15-18 Sa, Su. Closed M, W, Th, and from 21 Mar to 21 Nov.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: mechanical toys, about 30 carillons, music boxes, musical automati, monferrina, 2 small organs; 2 gramophones and a collection of disks.

E. Manzato. Musei Civici Trevigiano Villa Lattes Istrana. Milano, Federico Garolla Editore, 1990.

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LARINO (CB),

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: various idiophones used in the cathedral, such as a cratula, traccola, and matracca sometimes used on Maundy Thursday.

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LEGNANO (MI),

Governing organization: Comune di Legnano.

Primary responsibility: direttore. Open: 9-12.30, 14.30-17, W-Sa; 9.30-12 Su. Closed M.

Information sent: 1994.

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LIVORNO

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: 10-13 daily; 16.30-19.30 Th, Sa. Closed M.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: arpicordo, Donatus Undeus, Bergamo, 1594; piano on which Mascagni composed Cavalleria Rusticana; harmonium; organ.

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MAGLIANO ALFIERI (CN),

Primary responsibility: Antonio Adriano, I-12050 Sant'Antonio di Magliano Alfieri. Tel.: (0173) 66311.

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: about 20 traditional instruments: horns, conch-shell horns, various idiophones including: martellino; traccole, raganelle [cog rattles].

Roberto Leydi, in Culture musicali, 11 (1983)

Il corno da posta. Da mezzo di segnalazione a strumento sinfonico [exhibition catalogue]. R. Becheri, ed. Prato, Palazzo Pretorio, 18 mar. - 2 apr. 1989.

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MANTOVA

Governing organization: Fondazione d'Arco.

Primary responsibility: conservatore.

Open: 9-12 Tu,W,F; 9-12, 15-17 Sa-Su & holidays 1 Mar-31 Oct.

9-12, 15-17, Su, holidays, 1 Nov-28 Feb.

Closed: 25 Dec., 1 Jan., Easter, 1 May, 15 Aug.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: 18 instruments, including an archlute by Matteo Sellas, Venezia, 1647; harp, Sebastian Erard, London, 19th c.; guitar, Gennaro Fabbricatore, Napoli, 1821; other guitars, mandolins, citterns, lute, violin.

History: The collection belonged to the d'Arco family (descendants of the family of Jeanne d'Arc). In 1973, the Fondazione d'Arco was created out of the palazzo and its collections. The instruments (all strings) were collected during the lifetime of Giovanna d'Arco Chieppio Ardizzoni, Marchesa Guidi di Bagno (1880-1973). The instruments were acquired from the provinces from which they originated. Nearly all the instruments were restored in 1990.

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MERANO [MERAN] (BZ), Trentino-Alto Adige

Governing organization: Comune di Merano.

Primary responsibility: direttore. Open: 9.30-12, 14.30-17.30, M-F; 9.30-14 Sa, April through October. Closed holidays.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: 28 instruments, including 5 Renaissance recorders; 2 Baroque-style recorders; Renaissance transverse flute; 2 bass dulcians, one by I.C. Denner; bassoon stamped I.H.. TTL [Ignaz Huittl, Graslitz, ca. 1800; 4 crumhorns by Jörg Wier, Memmingen, 1st half 16th c.; tenor oboe, W.Kress, 1st half 18th c.; 3 trumpets: 2 by Friedrich Ehe, Nürnberg, 1st half 18th c.; one by Paulus Schmidt, Stadt Hautboist in Nürnberg; violin, anonymous, ? Tyrol, 1st half 18th c.; jingling johnny; 4 large violoncelli, chamber bass; lute Gregori Ferdinand Wenger, Augsburg, 1739; 2 anonymous clavichords, one C-f''' short octave, one F'-f'''; dulcimer.

History: The castle, built between 1445 and 1480 by Arciduca Sigismondo del Tirol and its objects including a number of old musical instruments, was acquired by the city and the building renovated in neo-Gothic style in 1880. A large part of the musical instruments collection was restored in 1978.

Wilhelm Roos, "The Musical Instrument Collection at Meran", GSJ (1979), 32: 10-23.

Barra Boydell, "Ieorg Wier, an Early Sixteenth-Century Crumhorn Maker", Early Music (Oct. 1979), VII, no. 4: 511-518.

B. Boydell, The Crumhorn and other Renaissance Windcap Instruments; a contribution to Renaissance Organology. Buren: Knuf, 1982. Pp. 144, 151-152, 158, 159, 162 fn. 332, 166-167, 171, 172, 234 (photo).

Wolfgang Duschek. Meraner Museum und Landesfürstliche Burg. Bolzano: Anthesia, 1983.

Marini da David R.V. Schönherr. Geschichte und Beschreibung der landesfürstlichen Burg. Merano: Pötzelberger, n.d.

Kenton Terry Meyer. The Crumhorn: its History, Design, Repertory and Technique. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983. (Studies in Musicology.) Pp. 58-59, 60, 66, 68.

W. Roos, "Die Sammlung histoischer Musikinstrumente in der Landesfürstlichen Burg zu Meran", in Glareana, (1986), I: 16-17.

Barbara Stanley, Graham Lyndon Jones. The Curtal. St. Albans: [the authors], 1983. Pp. 19, 21.

W. Roos. Die Sammlung der historischen Musikinstrumente in der Landesfürstlichen Burg. [Merano], 1987. W. Roos. La collezione di antichi strumenti musicali del Castello Principesco di Merano. [Translation of foregoing by Angelo Zaniol.] [Merano: Museo Civico di Merano, Photolitho Lana, 1990.]

Angelo Zaniol, "The `NF' Treble Recorder at the Museum der Stadt Meran", FOMHRI Quarterly (Oct. 1983), 33: 14-16.

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MILANO (MI), Lombardia

Governing organization: Comune di Milano.

Primary responsibility: curatore.

Open: 9.30-17.30 Tu-Su. Information sent: 1993.

Collection: About 700 instruments, around 510 European, the remainder are Asian, African and European folk musical instruments. The collection includes: viole da gamba by G.P. Maggini, Brescia, 1590, A.Bononiensis, Brescia, 16th c., Michel Colichon, Paris, 1687; viola da braccio piccola, 16th c.; violetta, G. Grancino, Milano, 1662; viole d'amore, Gasparo da Salo`, Brescia, 16th c., P.A. Testore, Milano, 1739, Dominicus Busan, Venezia, 1753; pochettes; violin, viola, violoncello and contrabass by Gasparo da Salo`. Bowed strings from the major Italian schools, include 12 from Brescia, 16-18th c.; 21 from Cremona makers including Nicola Amati, Andrea Guarneri, Antonio Stradivari, Giuseppe Guarneri, Francesco Ruger, the Cerutis; 17 by Milano makers, including G.B. Guadagnini, P.G. Mantegazza, C.G., C.A. and P.A. Testore, C.F. Landolfi; 5 from Venice, including Domenico Montagnana, Francesco Gobetti, Domenico Busan; 6 from Naples, including Gennaro Giuseppe and Raffaele Gagliano; 5 from Torino including Francesco Pressenda, Giuseppe Rocca, Antonio Guadagnini, and Enrico Melegari; as well as bowed strings from Florence, Rome Padova and Bologna by such makers as Bartolomeo Cristofori (a contrabass), Guarneri, Mantova, G. Tononi, and G. Fiorini, Bologna;T. Carcassi, Firenze, David Tecchler, Roma. French bowed strings were made by Gaspard Tieffenbrucker, N.A. Chappuy, N.F. Vuillaume. German bowed strings were made by Jacob Stainer, Mattias Albani, the Klotz, and Georg Wörnle. There is a large and important collection of bows; 6 hurdy gurdies, a glass armonica, 18th c. 19 treble and tenor lutes; 9 archlutes and theorboes by makers including M. Tieffenbrucker, 1593, A. Stradivari (attr.) ca. 1670, and a colascione; 19 mandolins, 3 citterns, 10 guitars, including by A. Stradivari (attr.), J. Boquay, 1732, S. Serafino, 1727, C. Bergonzi (attr.), G.B. Fabricatore, 1795; 5 chitarre battenti; guitars with double fingerboards, panduras, a bandurria, 3 lyre guitars; 9 harps, psalteries, etc. Various winds, including flutes by Stengel, Baireuth, E. Forni, Milano; oboes, including 1 by H. Grenser; musettes, English horns, clarinets, bassoons. 4 organs, 2 clavichords, 1 dated 1503, 18 small plucked instruments (spinetti or arpicordi, including 3 from the 16th c.: B. Floriani, 1562, Annibale Rossi, 1577, Murano da Pentorisi, 1590, and a double virginals, Hans Ruckers, 16th c.; 8 harpsichords, including by V. Trasuntino, Venice, 1571, P. Todino, Rome, 1675, D. Traeri, 1700, and a double by Pascal Taskin, 1780 and 28 pianos in various shapes. One vitrine is dedicated to Giuseppe Tartini which includes his violin by Giuseppe Guarneri, Cremona, 1708, his bow, portrait, and some of his autographs.

History: The museum was founded in 1958. The instruments are from the private collection of Natale and Franco Gallini, acquired in 1958 and 1963. The new musical instrument museum was installed in the Palazzo Morando, Via S. Andrea 6, next to the Musel di Milano. In 1963 it was moved to the Castello Sforzesco. The museum's purpose was to make available for study the musical instruments for which were written the most significant works in the history of music. Instruments were sought that either played or could be put into playing condition and that also were in their nearly original states. Another objective was to collect as many instruments as possible by Milanese makers, especially stringed instruments. The collection is notably rich in contemporary strings and has fine representative collections of strings made in Brescia, Cremona, Milano, Venezia, Naples, Torino, France and Germany.

Services: conservation is done by outside specialists; photographs.

Gallini, Natale. Mostra di antichi Strumenti Musicali della Collezione N. Gallini. Maggio 1953, Villa Comunale (ex reale) Milano. Milano: Tip. di Rizzoli, 1953.

Gallini, N. Catalogo descrittivo a cura di Natale Gallini. [Milano]: Comune di Milano [1958].

N. and Franco Gallini. Museo degli Strumenti Musicali, Catalogo, Castello Sforzesco. Milano: Comune di Milano, 1963.

[Forthcoming catalogue in 1996 coordinated by Andrea Gatti.]

MILANO (MI), Lombardia

Open: 9-12, 14-18, M-Sa. Closed holidays

Information sent: 1989.

Collection: about 129 instruments: including 42 extra-European, 15 archaeological from Roman times. The collection contains: Verdi's Erard piano and the spinet he used at the age of 8; Franz Liszt's Steinway piano; attributed to Giovanni Francesco Antegnati, Brescia, ca. 1535; Neapolitan arpicordo by Guaracino, Italy, fl. 1668-1683; fragments of a viola da gamba by Johannes Marcus, ca. 1530; an unusually-shaped violin by Testore.

History: The Museo Teatrale alla Scala was begun with the purchase of the majority of the instruments from the Sambon Collection in Paris in 1911. Other major acquisitions followed. These included 56 out of the 135 instruments from the museum of the Conservatorio di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi", transferred in 1914 to the Museo Teatrale alla Scala. (Excluded from the transfer were probably those more useful to the Conservatorio's faculty and students, such as the valuable bowed strings, the simpler system woodwinds and the brass.) The nucleus of the Conservatorio's collection had come from instruments loaned by private collectors including Alessandro Kraus to the 1881 Esposizione musicale di Milano. Towards the end of WW II, as the danger of bombardment increased, the library staff (to which the Museum was annexed) determined which were the more important instruments deserving of safekeeping -- such as the strings in playing condition -- and moved some of the collection accordingly. Remaining instruments were destroyed by bombs. In 1992 Renato Meucci discovered fragments of the bombed instruments. His findings will be published. Esposizione musicale sotto il patrocinio di S.M. la Regina. Milano 1881. Catalogo. Gruppi I[-VI]. Milano: Tip Luigi di Giacomo Pirola, 1881.

"Die Claviere italienischer Fabrikanten auf der Ausstellung zu Mailand 1881", Zeitschrift für Musikinstrumentenbau (1880-81) I: 292-93; (1881-82) 2: 34-35.

Giulio Ricordi, "L'Esposizione nazionale e la musica", Gazzetta musicale di Milano, (1881) 36: 33-34, 177-78, 193-94, 250.

Esposizione musicale, sotto il patrocinio di S.M. la Regina. Atti del congresso dei Musicisti italiani riunito in Milano dal 16 al 22 gigugno 1881. Milano: Ricordi, 1881.

Eugenio dé Guarinoni. Gli strumenti musicali nel Museo del R. Conservatorio di Milano. Nel 1 o centenario della fondazione del R. Conservatorio di musica "G. Verdi". Milano: U.Hoepli [1908].

Catologo del Museo Teatrale alla Scala. (Il piccolo cicerone moderno, nr. 12.) Milano: Alfieri & Lacroix, 1914.

Neisser, Artur, "Aus dem Theatermuseum des Scala-theaters in Mailand", Neue Musik-Zeitung (1927) 48: 102-105.

Vittadini, Stefano. Catalogo.. . Edita a cura del Consiglio direttivo; preface di Renato Simoni. Milano: E. Bestetti, 1948.

Letter from Renato Meucci, Milano, to Barbara Lambert, dated 22 June 1992.

La collezione di strumenti musicali del Museo Teatrale alla Scala: studio, restauro, restituzione. Lorenzo Girodo, ed. Milano: Centrro Europeo di Restauro, 1992.

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MODENA (MO), Reggio-Emilia

Governing organization: Comune di Modena.

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: 9-14, Tu-Sa; 9-13, Su. Closed M.

Information sent: 1993.

Collection: 8 musical instruments, including marble recorder, 17th c.; " arpa Estense ", chromatic harp, Giovanni Battista Jacomelli, Roma, 1581, originally owned by Alfonso II d'Este, duke at Ferrara; violin, 1687, and violoncello, 1691, both Domenico Galli, Parma; viola and violoncello labelled Amati; marble guitar, Michele Antonio Grandi, Carrara, ca. 1680; marble violin, Giovanni Battista Casarini, Carrara, 1687.

History: Housed in the former Augustinian monastery, the instruments came from the collections of the Dukes of Este: the harp to Alfonso d'Este II, Duke of Ferrara; the rest to Francesco d'Este II, Duke of Modena. Elio Durante, Anna Martellotti. Cronistoria del Concerto delle Dame Principalissime di Margherita Gonzaga d'Este. Firenze, 1979.

E. Durante, A. Martellotti. L'Arpa di Laura; indagine organologica, artistica e archivistica sull' arpa Estense. Firenze, S.P.E.S., 1982. E. Landi, "Gli strumenti musicali", La Galleria Estense di Modena, Jadranka Bentini, ed. Bologna, 1987, pp. 186-188.

A.A.V.V. L'Arpa Estense e il Concerto delle Dame, Modena, n.d.

MODENA (MO), Emilia-Romagna

Governing organization: Comune di Modena.

Primary responsibility: Direttore; conservatore.

Open: 9-12 weekdays; and 16-19 Tu, Sa. 10-13, 16-19 Su and holidays. Closed M. Information sent: 1989, 1994.

Collection: about 100 instruments, mainly European art musical instruments; some from Africa and Asia. Some of the more important instruments include: from Modena: harpsichord by Pietro Termanini, 1741; transverse flute, and a flauto d'amore converted into a recorder by D. Bertani, 2d half of 18th c.; 2 five-keyed cornets, valved horn, a tenor trombone, a bass tuba, ca. 1840, by Antonio Apparuti.

History: Housed in the former Augustinian monestary, the museum was founded in 1871; its collection consisted of primarily archaeological objects. By 1962 it had grown so large that it was divided into two autonomous institutions. The collection of Count Luigi Francesco Valdrighi (1827-1899), donated in 1892, became the foundation of the museum's collection of musical instruments.

Services: exhibitions, conferences, catalogues; library, archives, photographs reserved for internal use.

Cronistoria dei Teatri di Modena dal 1539 al 1871, del maestro Alessandro Gandini, arricchita d'interessanti notizie e continuata sino al presente da Luigi Francesco Valdrighi e Giorgio Ferrari Morenti. Modena, 1872.

Luigi Francesco Valdrighi. Dizionario storico-etimologico delle contrade e degli spazi pubblici di Modena. Modena, 1880. L. F. Valdrighi. Musurgiana (vari fascicoli), Modena, 1879-1886; repr.: Bologna, 1970.

L. F. Valdrighi. "Nomocheliurgografia antica e moderna", Memorie della R. Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti di Modena. Serie II, vol, II, VI, XI (Sezione d'Arte). Modena, 1884-1894. Repr.: Bologna, 1967.

G.Zoccoli. Il conte Luigi Francesco Valdrighi, storiografo e musicografo. Modena, 1899.

Wien. Internationale Ausstellung für Musik- und Theaterwesen, 1892. Fachkatalog der musik-historischen Abtheilung des königreiches Italien. Wein, 1892, pp. 293-294. [Includes instruments from the Museo Civico, Modena, including some of the Valdrighi collection.]

Luisa Cervelli. Mostra di Antichi Strumenti Musicali: Catalogo della mostra. Modena: Edizioni Coop. Tip, 1963.

M. Lucchi, G. Vecchi. Il Settecentomusicale a Modena. Modena, 1980.

Gabriella Guandalini, John Henry van der Meer, Marta Lucchi, Luisa Cervelli. Antichi strumenti musicali. Catalogo del fondo musicale del Museo Civico di Storia e Arte Medievale e Moderna di Modena. Modena, Mucchi Editore, 1982.

G. Guandalini. Il collezionismo di fine ottocento e la Raccolta Gandini del Museo Civico di Modena. Milano, 1982.

A.A.V.V., "La spinetta pentagonale", Quaderni del Museo d'Arte Medievale e Moderna, I, (1993).

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NAPOLI (NA), Campania

Fax: (081) 44 00 13.

Governing organization: Soprintendenza Archeologica dele Province di Napoli e Caserta.

Primary responsibility: Museo Archeologico di Napoli.

Open: by appointment only; the collection is being reorganized.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: includes 70 tibia or reed instruments (including fragments and provisional instruments), panpipes, horns, trumpets of bronze and conch shell, bucinae, sistri, tambourines, citterns with tortoise shells for bodies, bells, and instruments used in rituals and the cult of Isis. Also included are terracottas thought to be toys, including numerous bells in animal forms such as wild boar. A few of the instruments -- flutes, panpipes, bells of bronze and terracotta, cimbali, sistra, and various types of trumpets -- originate from Pompeii.

History: The museum is housed in a cavalry barracks built in the 1580s, recycled to house the university from 1610 to 1777. The collection belongs to the history of a large and general collection of so called "Piccoli Bronzi" that are today understood as generic and typical domestic equipment (the small decorative or religious sculptures produced as a series of utensils) were rediscovered in excavations of the 18th and 19th c. in the area of Vesuvius.

NAPOLI (NA), Campania

Collection: about 140 instruments, mainly European art instruments, including: 2 sets of Italian bagpipes, fortepiano vis-à-vis by Stein, a large number of Neapolitan bowed instruments; one of only two harps by Stradivari, both based on surviving scale drawings in the Museo Stradivariano, Cremona; some Asian instruments.

History: Founded in 1925. The collection originated from four Neapolitan conservatories of music: Poveri di Gesù Cristo, Pietà dei Turchini, San Onofrio a Porta Capuana, Santa Maria di Loreto.

Ettore Santagata. Il Museo Storico Musicale di "San Pietro a Majella. Napoli: R. Stabilimento Tipografico Francesco Giannini & Figli, 1930.

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PADOVA (PD), Veneto

PADOVA (PD), Veneto

Governing organization: Comune di Padova.

Primary responsibility: conservatore.

Information sent: 1993.

Collection: four rectangular ottavini, end of the 16th c.

History: The museum is installed in the former monastery of Saint Anthony. The spinetti are in storage.

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PALERMO (PA), Sicilia

Governing organization: Comune di Palermo.

Primary responsibility: direttore. Open: 9-13 daily; closed F.

Information sent: 1990.

Collection: 69 traditional Sicilian instruments, including: 4 buccina, 9 whistles, a transverse flute, 8 jews harps, 4 triangles, 4 castanets, 18 [battola], 15 pipes, 1 small frame drum on a stick [ sonaglino ], 2 drums, 3 tambourines. The museum was founded in 1881.

Services: library, sale of photographs.

G. Cocchiara. La vita e l'Arte del Populo Siciliano nel Museo Pitrè. Palermo: Ciuni Editore, 1938. Pp. 121-131: "Balocchi, Giocatolli e strumenti musicali".

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PARMA (PR), Emilia-Romagna

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: 27 European instruments, 2 from North Africa.

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PESARO (PS), Marche

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PISTOIA (PT), Toscana

Collection: 6 European wind instruments by Rottenburgh, Isotta, Anciuti, Palanca; and a spinettone by Giovanni Ferrini, Firenze, 1731.

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QUARINA SOTTO (NO),

Primary responsibility: Igino Nicolazzi. Tel.: (0323) 826 297.

Open: July: 16-19 Tu, Sa, Su; 1-20 August: 16-19 daily; 20 August-1 July: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: 251 wind instruments including clarinets, flutes and various brass instruments.

V. Villa, Marco Tiella. Quarna: vivere di strumenti (mostra alla Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Milano, 8 apr. - 4 mag. 1984). Milano, [1984].

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RENDE (CS), Calabria

Fax: (0984) 443-392.

Governing organization: Comune di Rende.

Primary responsibility: conservatore de folklorica.

Open: 9-13 M-F; 16-19 W, F; 9012 Sa. Closed Su.

Information sent: 1992, 1994.

Collection: popular musical instruments including: whistles; walking stick flutes; cornamuses, zampogna; horn, late 18th c.; chitarre battenti, De Bonis; jews harps, bells, organetto, percussion instruments.

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RIMINI (RN), Emilia-Romagna

Fax: (0541) 704 315.

Governing organization: Comuni di Rimini.

Primary responsibility: Dirigente del Servizio Archeologia e Culture Extraeuropee, Musei Comunali; coordinatore.

Open: 8-13.30 weekdays, and 15-18 Tu, Th. Closed holidays

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: 263 instruments: 115 idiophones; 49 membranophones; 68 aerophones; 31 cordophones.

History: The Museum "Dinz Rialto" of Primitive Arts was inaugurated in 1972. It was given to the public in 1975. It has three sections: Africa, Oceania, and Pre-Colombian America. It is the private collection of Delfino Dinz Rialto (Padova, 1920 - Rio de Janeiro, 1979). The museum's aim is to collect the work of early cultures. The Pre-Colombian America Section, (unlike those for Africa and Oceania) contains archaeological material from Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru. Services: exhibition, photography.

Alessandro Sistri, Roberto Leydi, Febo Guizzi, Valeria Petrucci, Marco Tiella, Maurizio Biordi. Uomini & suoni: Strumenti musicali del Museo Arti Primitive Dinz Rialto. [Firenze:] La Casa Usher, [1985].

Maurizio Biordi, "Delfino Dinz Rialto e il Museo Arti Primitive di Rimini (Italia): una colezione privata oggi museo pubblico", Atti del simposio collezionismo Americanista durante il XIX-XX secolo; tradizioni, proposte ed investigazioni. Laura Laurencich Minelli, ed. 46 o Congresso Internationale degli Americanisti. Amsterdam, 1988.

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ROMA (RM), Lazio

[office:] Via della Conciliazione; Auditorium Palazzo Pio. National musical instrument museum. Tel.: (06) 678-0742. Fax: (06) 678-4990.

Governing organization: Ministero per i Bene Culturali e Ambientali.

Primary responsibility: conservatore di Museo Strumenti.

Open: by appointment at Via Vittoria during office hours; and at concerts in the Auditorium.

Information sent: 1992.

from the 16th c.: Italian rebec; viola da braccio, J. Marcus; cittern, 1536. From the 17th c.: violin, angels carved on back; viola da gamba, A. Siciliano, original bridge; lutes by G.Bechardini, Venice, 1609; Pasquale and Antonio Vinaccia e di Gennaro, Battista and Raffaele Fabricatore; archlute [6 choirs, 8 bass strings], G.Barrone, Napoli, 1713; viola d'amore, 1720; lutino, 1726; violin "Il Toscano", A. Stradivari; viola, D.Tecchler, Roma, 1745); 8 keyboards including an orphica, Carl Leopold Röllig; 40 winds including: early 19th c. clarinet by Porporato; invention horn, decorated bell; and instruments from archaeological excavations. Mechanical instrument with a cylinder, 4 percussion; 52 accessories and parts of instruments: strings, bows, plectra, batons from celebrated conductors; photographs, engravings, reproductions of instruments and sounds.

History: In 1889 the Roman Musical Society presented a concert of Italian drammatic works from the 17th through the 19th centuries, from Monteverdi to Rossini, performed on early instruments, both originals and copies. This concert inspired the Accademia to create a museum of historic musical instruments, formally founded in 1894 and enlarged with donations from the Count Enrico di San Martino, the Academy's president; the Cav. Adolf Berwin; Evan Gorga; the Cav. Branzoli; antiquarian Carlo Magni, and others. Regina Margherita di Savoia (d. 1926) made a bequest of a large number of plucked strings. More recently, in 1962, Prof. Gioacchino Pasqualini enriched the collection with about 40 instruments, consisting mainly winds and bowed strings. In 1963 the collection was exhibited in the windows of businesses in the via del Babuino. After its return to the Accademia, most of the collection was placed in the Auditorium on the via della Conciliazione where it was inaccessible for many years. Prof. Pasqualini installed some of the collection in new quarters in the via Vittoria in 1963. In December 1993 the permanent exhibition opened. The principal nucleus of the museum's instruments are found in the auditorium where they are exhibited in conjunction with concerts. Other instruments are exhibited in the Accademia offices, in Via Vittoria. Services: exhibitions, photos of the instruments.

Alberto Cametti, "Raccolta d'instrumenti...", Annuario della Regia Accademia di S.ta Cecilia. (Luglio 1899-Giugno 1900), V: 22-54.

Gioacchino Pasqualini, "Donazione di strumenti antichi fatta dal prof. Gioacchino Pasqualini all'Accademia Nazionale di S.Cecilia", St. Cecilia (1962) 11: 21-27.

Lucio Del Re. Mostra di strumenti musicali per gentile concessione del Museo Strumentale dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia 9-19 Ottobre 1963. Roma, 1963. (Includes descriptions of 151 instruments and 45 photos.)

A.A.V.V. Il Liuto e la lira. Verso un recupero del Museo Strumentale dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia. Roma, 1993.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Open: 10-13 Tu, Fr, Sa, Su.

Information sent: 1985. Collection: harp, 11 + 11 sympathetic strings; psaltery decorated in Chinoisere.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Open: by appointment only.

Information sent: 1985.

Collection: harpsichord, 1693, with lid painted by Picasso.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Primary responsibility: dirigente superiore.

Closed for reconstruction.

Information sent: 1991.

Collection: 20 instruments. 9 from Libia including: 2 shawms, one with a small iron chain, with small iron chain, the other of leather; zekra [folk oboe, leather, iron]; ud; 3 drumsticks, 3 tambourines. 11 from Ethiopia: cane flute; 2 double flutes; kiràr [1-stringed fiddle], and bow; masinko [spike fiddle, diamond-shaped soundbox]; 2 wooden drums with pellet rattles; enazil [sistrum].

Cesare Caravaglios. Saggi di folklore. Napoli: Ed. Rispoli anonima [1938].

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Open: 10-13, 15-17 M-Th; 10-13.30 F; 10-12 Su. Closed Sa.

Information sent: 1985.

Collection: 3 shofars.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Open: 17-20 Th; 9-13 Su.

Information sent: 1985.

Collection: fortepiano, Erard, Paris; guitar, Spain, both early 19th c.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Musical instrument section closed for restoration.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: copies of instruments from Roman times: water organ from Aquincum, horn from Pompeii, zither, cymbals, lyra, sistrum, reed pipes, etc.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Open: 9-14 Tu-F; 9-13 Sa-Su. Closed M.

Information sent: 1985

Collection: harmonium belonging to Trilussa; grand piano, Blüthner, Leipzig.

History: This museum grew out of the Biblioteca di Archaeologia e Storia dell'Arte.

Services: archaeology and art history library.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: many instruments from Francescan missions in extra-European countries; rattle, Veneto.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Open: 9-13.30 Tu-F; also 17-20 W, Th. Closed M.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: three musical clocks, early 19th c.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Governing organization: Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali.

Primary responsibility: Direttore del Settore Strumenti Musicali.

Open: 9-14 T-Sa, also 16-19 W; 9-13 Su. Appointment necessary for instruments in storage.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: about 660 ethnographic Italian (popular and folk) instruments: 208 instruments including 78 idiophones, 24 membranophones, 91 aerofones, 8 cordophones, 7 unidentifiable. 55% of the collection coming from the south of Italy and the islands, 27% from central Italy, 14% from north Italy, the provenance unknown for 4%. In addition, there are about 450 terracotta pipes, bells and other sound-producing objects from throughout Italy.

History: Part of the museum's collection is from the Museo Nazionale di Antropologia di Firenze, founded 1869; part is from the Comune di Milano acquired at the Exposizione Nazionale, 1881; part is from the Museo di Etnografia Italiana Istituto, Firenze, 1906. The collection was assembled by Lamberto Loria from well-documented objects on the occasion of the Esposizione di etnografia italiana, Roma, 1911. The Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizione Popolari was founded in 1923. In 1984, much of the collection was exhibited in a major exhibition (10 October to 30 November) curated by R.Leydi and F. Guizzi.

Services: exhibitions, photographs, conservation, library, archives, sound archives.

Pietro Scotti. Etnologia. 2d ed. Milano: Hoepli, 1955. "Strumenti musicali",, pp. 304-15.

Vinigi L. Grottanelli ["Musical instruments in this museum"] Etnologia, III: 637-57.

F.Guizzi, R.Leydi. Gli strumenti della musica popolare in Italia. Catalogo provvisorio. Bologna, 1984.

Strumenti musicali e tradizioni popolari in Italia. F. Guizzi, ed. Roma: 1985.

Paola Elisabetta Simeoni, Roberta Tucci, [Diego Carpitella]. Museo Nationalle delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari, Roma: La collezione degli strumenti musicali. [Vol. 1] in Nuova Serie n. 4: Cataloghi del musei e gallerie d'Italia. Roma: [Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato], 1991.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Primary responsibility: direttore

Open: 9-14 Tu-F; 9-13 holidays. Closed M.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: three instruments: 17th c. harpsichord, one square and one grand fortepianos, one end of 18th c., the other 1st half 19th c.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Open: 9-14 T-F (9-18,30 W); 9-13 Sa-Su. Closed M.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: bronze Etruscan horn, ivory horn, Praeneste (Palestrina), 8th c. B.C.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Governing organization: Ministero per i Beni Culturai e Ambientali. Soprintendenza Speciale.

Primary responsibility: soprintendente.

Open: 9-14 Tu-Sa, 9-13 Su and holidays. Closed M.

Information sent: 1989, 1994.

Collection: about 500 prehistoric and ethnographic instruments including prehistoric and folk instruments, from Africa (180 instruments including oliphant Afro-Portuguese, 1709), America, Oceania, India, Japan, etc.

History: The musical instruments were acquired by the museum between 1876 and 1930 more or less and incorporated within the various cultural collections. The museum devotes an exhibition room to instruments from Black Africa.

Services: guided tours, library, photographs, conservation.

Pietro Scotti. Gli strumenti musicali africani del R. Museo Pigorini, Roma. Firenze: Palazzo Nonfinito, 1940.

Ogetti e Ritmi. Strumenti musicali dell'Africa [exhibition, Roma, May-Oct. 1980]. Roma: DeLuca, 1980.

F. Giannattasio, "Strumenti musicali", Aspetti dell'expressione artistica in Somalia, A.R. Puglielli, ed. Roma: Università "La Sapienza", 1987.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Open: 9-14, M-F; 9-13, Sa-Su. Closed M.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: in storage: sistri, plectra for cithera.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Governing organization: Ministero dei Beni Culturali.

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: 9-13.30, M-Sa. Closed Su.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: 840 instruments. Medieval and renaissance instruments include a set of 7 crumhorns by Jörg Wier, Memmingen, now Bavaria, 1524; 5 mute cornetts marked "HIE.S", 3 curved soprano and 3 curved tenor cornetts; a sordun; gothic harp, 15th c.; clavichord, Italy, 16th c.; lutes by the Tieffenbrucker family, Venezia; 2 transverse flutes by Rafi; five recorders, including 2 tenor, 2 basset and 1 bass; pentagonal spinet by Giovanni Francesco Antegnati, 16th c.; harpsichord by Hans Müller, Leipzig, 1537; a guitar by Jacobus de Mensis, Brescia, 17th c.; lute, Matheus Buechenberg, Roma, 1617; theorbino, 1636 and theorbo, 1640, both Matteo Sellas, Venezia. Other keyboards include: arpicordo, Bolcioni, Prato, 1629; Italian harpsichords made in Italy, 1725; by Joannes Ruckers, Antwerp, 1637; 3 positiv organs; piano by Bartolomeo Cristofori, Firenze, 1722. Viola da gamba by Francesco Ruger, Cremona, 1726; Barberini harp, 1671; 3 oboes by Anciuti, Milano, early 18th c. Violins by David Tecchler, Roma, 1722; and Pietro Antonio dalla Costa, Treviso, 1729. The collection includes many other fine later instruments of all types.

History: The nucleus of the collection, 200 instruments, is that of Evan Gorga (b. Brocco, Caserta, 1865-1957), a tenor, especially celebrated for his interpretation of Rodolfo in Puccini's Bohème. Not only did Gorga assemble one of the most splendid and comprehensive collections of musical instruments, but as an inveterate collector, he also formed impressive collections of medical instruments, ceramics, wrought iron, and toys, among others. Gorga placed his musical instrument collection on loan to the museum in 1929; in 1950 the nation acquired the musical instruments collection from Gorga in exchange for a small pension. Finally, in 1974, after a building had been acquired and adapted specifically for the musical instruments, the museum was officially opened as the Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti Musicali. The museum's collection has been enlarged by the addition of some thirty other collections, as well as purchases, gifts, and loans. Some of the most notable instruments include: the collection of the Conte Giusti del Giardino, Citadella (some 30 Renaissance instruments and the Cristofori piano); the Barberini harp from the Princess Barberini; a harpsichord originally with 19 keys to the octave from a private collection in Venezia. The museum exhibits most of the European art musical instruments chronologically, other kinds of instruments are shown primarily thematically, e.g. archaeological instruments; non-European, and popular instruments; music boxes; instruments for travel, military, and church; and an exhibit of instruments in the process of being constructed.

G.M. Viti. Evan Gorga e le sue grandi collezioni. Roma, 1926.

L. Pallottino, "Dalle rovine della collezione Gorga al Museo nazionale degli strumenti musicali", Palatino (1967) XI, no.3: 263-272.

Cesare Brandi, "Un nuovo grande museo", Corriere della Sera, 10 iv 1974, p.3. D. Gorga Soderini, "Evan Gorga e il suo grande museo musicale", Il mondo della musica (1975), XIII, no. 1: 60-63.

Luisa Cervelli, "Antichi strumenti in un nuovo museo romano", Strenna dei romanisti (1975), XXXVI: 106-113.

L.Cervelli, "Per un catalogo degli strumenti a tastiera del Museo degli Antichi Strumenti Musicali", Accademie e Biblioteche d'Italia, 1976, XLIV: 305-343.

L.Cervelli, "Dal rinascimentale `studio di musica' al moderno museo degli strumenti musicali", Quadrivium (1978), XIX, in partic. pp. 97-103.

L.Cervelli, "Il museo nazionale degli strumenti musicali", Museo perché, museo come. Saggi sul museo. Roma: deLuca, 1980, pp. 131-134.

[The following is the most recent edition of the museum's guide:] L.Cervelli. Antichi strumenti musicali in un moderno museo: Museo Nazionale Strumenti Musicali, Roma. 2d ed, Renato Meucci, ed. Roma: Gela Editrice, 1986.

L. Cervelli. [catalogue]

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Open: 9-14, Tu-F; 9-13 Sa-Su. Closed M.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: ivory oliphant, 18th c.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Open: 8.30-12.30 Tu-Su. Information sent: 1994.

Collection: baritone sarrusophone by Alziati, Milano used in the Banda dell'Esercito di Roma from 1938 to 1952.

ROMA

Primary responsibility: Direttore.

Closed.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: 3 brass instruments: trumpet and 2 basshorns, fanfare instruments from the disbanded Reggimenti dei Bersaglieri.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Closed for reconstruction.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: signal and valve cornets.

ROMA

Open: 9-13 weekdays; closed weekends. Information sent: 1992.

Collection: military drums, including some from former Italian colonies.

ROMA

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: post horn, 1st half 19th c.; 2 "trombette".

ROMA (RM), Lazio

Open: by appointment. In progress of reconstruction.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: apparatus, parts and materials from original sound recording and reproducing systems to the first sophisticated gramophones. The collection consists of Edison wax cylinder phonographs (including one from 1888), various types of disk players including electrified ones; wire recording machines, dictaphones, and a series of apparati used in the study of the 1938 Discoteca di Stato and afterwards.

ROMA (RM), Lazio

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SAVIO (RA),

Primary responsibility: Direttore M.G. Marini.

Open: Summer: 10-12.30, 14.30-19. Winter: 9.30-13, 14.30-18; M, W mornings closed.

Information sent: 1994.

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SIENA (SI), Toscana

Fax: (0577) 288 124.

Governing organization: Fondazione Accademia Musicale Chigiana.

Primary responsibility: presidente; direttore amministrativo.

Open: only to researchers by appointment.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: about 90 instruments. The collection is especially rich in bowed strings, including instruments by Stradivari, Amati, Storioni, Gagliano, Guarnieri, Guersan, Bisiach, etc.; also wind instruments; spinette; harpsichord by Vincentius, 1515-1516; fortepiano; piano; 2 organs; and 10 instruments from Asia. History: The collection was founded in 1932 by Count Guido Chigi Saracini (1880-1965).

Services: courses, concerts, music festival, and music library containing books, microfilms, recordings, and an archives with letters and autographs.

SIENA (SI), Toscana

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TOLMEZZO (UD), Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Primary responsibility: presidente.

Open: 9-12, 14-18, T-Su, April-September. 9-12, 13-17, T-Su, October-March.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: 2 elementary winds (? bassoons); violoncello; liron [local contrabass]; psaltery inscribed "Suhr-zither"; spinetta, polychrome decoration, 18th c.; 2 reed organs, one marked "Fidel Socin. Bozen Tirol".

History: The instruments are part of the collection begun in the 19th c. by Michele Gortani.

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TORINO (TO), Piemonte

Primary responsibility: Soprintendente al Museo Egizio di Torino. Direttore della Sezione Didattica del Museo Egizio.

Open: 9-14, T-Su.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: harp neck with 14 tuning pegs; 17 cane oboes; oboe cane carrying case with engraved decoration, some depicting music and dance; 2 wooden clappers in the forms of hands; 4 sistri: 2 bronze, 2 glazed pottery; 2 bronze cymbals; along with reliefs in and paintings on stone, wood, shell, papyrus, and cloth depicting the playing of musical instruments and dance.

History: The museum was founded at the beginning of the 19th c. with the Egyptian collection of the Piemontese Bernardino Drovetti.

Publications:
- Anna Maria Donadoni Roveri, Elvira D'Amicone, Giorgio Careddu. Itinerari Egittologici. I. La musica nell'antico Egitto. Torino: Museo Egizio, 18/23 May 1990.
- T. Baldacci, "Musica, danza, giochi", Civiltà degli Egizi. 1. La vita quotidiana. A.M. Donadoni Roveri, ed. Milano, 1987, pp. 262-265.
- S. Curto. Storia del Museo Egizio di Torino. Torino, 1976.

TORINO (TO), Piemonte

Offices: Via Avellino, 6, I-10125 Torino. Tel.: (011) 473 0130 / 473 0444.

Governing organization: Comune di Torino.

Primary responsibility: Il dirigente delle raccolte d'arte antica.

Open: by appointment (because of renovations).

Information sent: 1989.

Collection: about 50 instruments from Europe and Asia, including: arpicordo, Fernando de Rossi, Milano, 1582; a Venetian harpsichord, 1600-1650; trumpet by Jacob Schmidt, Nürnberg, 1600-1650; mandola, 1650-1700; gilt and carved harp by Luis Concone, Torino, 1812; 5 guitars, one by Ignazio Martini, Torino, 1787.

History: The museum was founded in 1860. Carlo Bruno in 1943 donated 12 mandolins and guitars.

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TRIESTE (TS), Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Governing organization: Comune di Trieste.

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: 9-13, M-Sa. Closed Su.

Information sent: 1993

Collection: 160 traditional, popular, indigenous instruments from the 16th c. on, from Central Europe including: Albania, Yugoslovia, Hungary; Africa: 2 panpipes, sanza, kissar and drum both Ethiopia,2 end-blown flutes, 2 arched harps from Central Africa, 2 drums made from craniums, Tibet; Asia including China: sona, sheng, p'i p'a, 2 san-hsien, 2 tan ch'in, erh hu, yüeh ch'in; Japan: 2 samisen, koto; Cambodia: 2 traditional violins; India: tanbur, màyrui; lute, Borneo; Arabia: zummara, ud, kamanja; South America; Western instruments include: 3 globular duct flutes; 2 recorders, one 1780, one by J. Schunda, Pest; piccolo; 2 transverse flutes, tárogató, J. Stowasser, Budapest, end 19th c.; bass clarinet, W. Stowasser's Söhne, Graslitz-Verona, early 20th c.2 oboes; basset horn, Catterino Catterini, Bologna, ca. 1830; bassoon, Rorarius, Wien; hunting horn, trumpet, trombone; 2 Balkan-area gusle; chitarra battente, 17th c.; zither; 3 violins, viola, violoncello, contrabass bow, all by Giuseppe Dollenz, Trieste, 19th c.; several experimental violins; pochette, viola d'amore both eighteenth c.; spinetta, Domenico, Bologna, 1577; harp, Sebastian and Pierre Erard, London.

The collection also contains music-related objects, including costumes, costume designs, and jewelry from opera performances; marionettes; stage designs; paintings; musical manuscripts; medals and relics from the third century B.C. on.

History: In 1922 the Trieste publisher Carlo Schmidl gave to the city his collection of objects and documents relating to the theatrical life of Trieste, dating from the end of the 18th c. It contained records of older libretti and publications (from the 16th c.). These were at first housed in the Archivio del Teatro Verdi (1801-1930). Two years later they became the nucleus of the Museo, inaugurated in 1924. In 1946 the direction of the Teatro was transferred to the Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte along with an endowment for it from the Comune. In 1967 it became a dependant of the Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte. Fiorello de Farolfi (1908-1989) made a bequest of a collection of Asian and South American musical instruments and documents; in 1988 Roberto Dedenaro gave a collection of 10 miniature musical instruments; Services: exhibitions, library, archives, guided tours, educational programs for schools.

Sergio Chiereghin. Giuseppe Tartini: note e considerazioni in occasione di una mostra tartiniana allestita al Museo Teatrale dalla direzione dei Civici Musei Triestini durante la stagione operistica, 1969-1970. Trieste, 1970.

Laura Ruaro Loseri. Strumenti musicali europei ed extraeuropei: mostra allestita dai Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte di Trieste, Comune di Trieste.. . 4 ottobre 1979 - 15 maggio 1980.. Trieste: Istituto per l'Enciclopedia del Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 1979.

Adriano Dugulin. Con slancio gentile donare generosamente: acquisizioni del Civico Museo Teatrale "C. Schmidl" di Trieste, 1983-1992. Sala Comunale di Piazza Unità d'Italia 4/1 Trieste - 13 dicembre 1992 - 17 gennaio 1993. Trieste, 1992. TRAVERSETOLO (PR), Emilia-Romagna

Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Via Vecchia di Sala, 18, I-43030 Corte di Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma). Art museum. Tel.: (0521) 848 327. Fax: (0521) 848 337.

Primary responsibility: il segretario generale.

Open: 10-17 Tu-Su. Closed M. The collection is available only to researchers.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: fortepiano, Johann Fritz, Vienna, 1810; piano, 20th c.; 2 spinets, England, 19th c.; harp, 19th c.

History: The foundation includes the collection of Professor Luigi Magnani.

Services: music books written by Luigi Magnani.

Recordings: Jorg Demus on the Fritz piano: a Beethoven concerto. Fonit Cetra. CD.

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UDINE (UD), Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Governing organization: Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte di Udine.

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1993.

Civici Musei e Gallerie di Storia e Arte, 10 instruments: clarinet, 19th c.; mandolone [bass mandolin], ? 14th c.; Milanese mandolin, 18th c.; colascione; chitarrone, late 16th-early 17th c.; psaltery, 17th c.; 2 viole d'amore, Salzburg, 1697, anon., 18th c.; viola da gamba, 18th c.; violin, 19th c., all from a private collector;

Museo Friuliano delle Arte e Tradizioni Popolari: terracotta fischietti [simple pipes]; zufoli [small whistle pipes]; raganelle [Easter cog rattle]; batacchi [clappers]. From Africa: marimba; mukunhari; zamr [conical Arab shawm]; tagare [percussion plaque]; karacasse; kurukue; palassa [end-blown flute. Launeddas [triple pipe], Sardinia; mussakua [panpipes]. G. Perusini, "Ce fastu?", Strumenti Musicali (1944), pp. 5-6.

Vittorio Fael, "Gli strumenti musicali del Civico Museo di Udine; lettere tenuta nell'adunanza del 17 febbraio 1938 - XVI", Accademia di scienze, ettere e arti di Udine, Atti (1937-38), Ser. 6, IV.

Musei in vetrina: acquisizioni e restauri 1981-1991. Udine, [1991].

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VATICANO, Stato della Città del

Fax: (06) 698 5061.

Governing organization: Monumenti Musei e Gallerie Pontificie.

Primary responsibility: direttore generale.

Open: 8.45-13.45; and until 16 during Easter and from July to September.

8.45-13 during the winter. Entrance permitted until 1 hour before closing.

Entrance is free on the last Sunday of each month.

Information sent: 1992.

Services: tours, spectacles, conferences, courses, permanent exhibitions, library, photography, technical design, restoration, etc.

Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Città del Vaticano

Collection: 6 bronze sistri, 1 faience sistrum with a handle, 2 bronze bells.

History: The Museo Gregoriano Egizio was founded in 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI; it was completely renovated in 1989.

Orazio Marucchi. Il Museo Egizio Vaticano. Roma, 1899.

Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Città del Vaticano Tel.: (06) 698-3333.

Open: 9-14 daily, 9-13 Sa, 9-13 last Su of the month in July, August, September; 9-17 during the Easter period. Closed Su, except as stated above.

Collection: fragments of bone flutes; and a bronze lute-shaped instrument (1.20 m. long) from Campo Morto, Vulci (formerly in the Collezione Feoli). History: The Museo Gregoriano Etrusco was founded by Pope Gregory XVI in 1837. The museum was completely reconstructed and reopened in 1992.

Tobias Dohrn, "Etruskisches horn", Wolfgang Helbig, Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom, 4th ed. Tübingen, 1963-1969, I, n.682, pp. 515-516.

Museo Missionario-Etnologico, Città del Vaticano Tel.: (06) 698-4714. (06) 698-83041. (06) 698-83293 (Padre Penkowski).

Open: 9-14 W, Sa.

Collection: about 1000 instruments from all parts of the world.

History: The Museo Missionario Etnologico's instruments, collected and donated by various orders of missionaries, were initially exhibited in the Grande Mostra Missionaria of 1925. Pope Pius XI, in 1926 inaugurated the museum and installed it in the Palazzo Apostolico Lateranense. In 1963 it was transferred to the Vatican; and in 1979 it was reopened to the public.

Elena Palazzo. Musica e strumenti di terre lontante: Cina. Roma: Angelo Signorelli Editore, 1933. (Includes engravings of some of the musical instruments.)

Museo Pio Cristiano, Città del Vaticano

Collection: bronze bell, 8th century, with inscription dedicating it to Gesù Cristo and San Michele Archangelo, excavated near Canino (Viterbo).

History: The Museo Pio Cristiano, first located in the Palazzo Apostolico Lateranense, was constituted by Pope Pius XI in 1954. In 1963 it was transferred to the Vatican and in 1970 it was reopened to the public.

Giovanni Battista de Rossi, Bullettino di Archeologica Cristiana, 1887, pp. 82-89, plates III-IV.

Orazio Marucchi. Guida al Museo Cristiano Lateranense. Roma, 1898, pp. 179-180.

Nazzareno Gabrielli, "Il Gabinetto di Richerche Scientifiche", in Monumenti Musei e Gallerie Pontificie. Bollettino, I/3, figs. 4-5.

Museo Storico Vaticano

Collection: 9 musical instruments: from the Corpo Gendarmeria: 2 drums, one with a pair of drumsticks, the other without; 2 trumpets each with a banner; sistrum (incomplete). From the Guardia Nobile: 2 trumpets, each with a banner; trumpet for a Zouave [Swiss Guardsman]; Battaglione Volontari Pontifici di Reserva, 1869 [Voluntary Reserve Battalion of the Pontiff]: trumpet.

History: The [Museum of The Vatican's History] was founded in 1973 by Pope Paolo VI and is located in the Palazzo Apostolico Lateranense. It includes the Pontifical Apartment, official residence of the Pope, Bishop of Rome; and three sections of history: papal iconography, pontifical ceremony, documentation of the corps of pontifical guards. A dependence of the museum is the Padiglione dell Carrozze, found in the Vatican, containing carriages and automobiles used by the pontiff.

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VENEZIA (VE), Veneto

Fax: (041) 523 9268.

Primary responsibility: one of the professors.

Open: by appointment only.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: about 50 historic instruments by major makers of the Venetian School; and some 300 modern instruments used by students. The most important instruments include: a 17th c. harp (incomplete); from the 18th c.: viola d'amore, Santo Serafino; Italian viola, contrabasses by Gofriller, Busan, Storioni, Dodi, Testore; buccina, Vernon; transverse flute, Pellegrino di Azzi; 2 oboes, Fornari; fortepiano.

History: The Conservatorio was founded in 1876 as the Liceo-Società Musicale "Benedetto Marcello". The same year the collection of musical instruments was begun with purchases and donations, to be used for educational purposes.

Elenco degli strumenti musicali antichi da arco, fiato, pizzico e tasto, posseduti dal Nob. P. Correr di Venezia. Venezia: Tip. Antonelli, 1872.

Moritz Fürstenau, "Eine Samlung musikalischer Instrumente in Venedig", Monatshefte für Musikgeschichte (1874) 6: 103-107.

Venice. Museo Civico e Raccolta Correr. Guida del Museo Civico e Raccolta Correr di Venezia. Venezia: Tip. Emiliana, 1885, pp. 16-17: "Strumenti musicali." [41 objects from the Correr, Martinengo and Istituto Esposti collections.]

VENEZIA (VE), Veneto

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: only to groups; 15 per day 10-12.30, 15-18 Tu-Su;

10-12.30 only in the winter.

Information sent: 1989.

Collection: 14 musical instruments, including 17th and 18th c. violins and bows.

History: The collection was that of the Querini family left to the foundation instituted by the last descendant the Count Giovanni Querini. The gallery was founded in 1868. The collections include paintings from the 14 through the 18th c. and are of particular interest because they document Venetian festivals and costumes; 400 pieces of furniture; 500 decorative art objects; 34 drawings, about 2500 medals and coins; some 2600 prints; 350 maps, 400 bound prints; 1000 loose leaves.

Services: library, permanent and temporary exhibitions, book shop, tours, photography, scientific conservation conferences.

VENEZIA (VE), Veneto

Primary responsibility: Direttore Amministrativo dell'Istituto.

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1994. Collection: 24 instruments, including 12 violins, 2 violas, 2 violoncellos, 2 double basses, 5 natural horns, square piano, ca. 1820.

History: The collection is periodically exhibited at the Chiesa di S. Maria della Pietà, Venezia.

M. Tiella, Luca Primon. Catalogo degli strumenti dell' Istituto della Pietà, Venezia. Catalogo in occasione della mostra "Estro armonico". Venezia, 1990.

Viola, close range photogrametry FoArt, Via Sporzana 38, I-43100 Parma. Tel.: (0521) 52744. For regstration photographs: CD Amadeus AMS 001-002 De Agostini-Rizzoli Periodici, Viale P.O. Vigliani, 19, I-20148 Milano.

VENEZIA (VE), Veneto

Governing organization: Soprintendenza Beni Artistici e Storici Venezia.

Primary responsibility: direttrice; soprintendente.

Open: 9-14 Tu-Sa; 9-13 Su.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: about 60 musical instruments: Japanese and Cambodian strings, winds, and percussion; percussion from Southeast Asia.

History: The collection is that of Prince Enrico Bardi di Borbone. It was sequestered in Austria during WW I, and acquired afterwards by the State of Italy. The museum was opened to the public in 1928.

Kishibe Shigeo. Strumenti Musicali Giapponesi. Venezia, 1989.

VENEZIA (VE), Veneto

Primary responsibility: direttore.

Open: 10-16 weekdays; 9-12.30 Tu, Su.

Information sent: 1994.

Collection: 19 instruments, including 2 bass recorders: Johann Christoph Denner, Nürnberg, and anon. in ivory; flûte d'accord, Giovanni Maria Anciuti, Milano; transverse walking-stick flute; 2 oboes: J.C. Denner, Schvechbaur; oboe d'amore, Johann Heinrich Eichentopf; cor anglais, Andrea Fornari, Venezia; contrabassoon, maple and brass; cornetto, 16th-17th c.; 2 small folk shawms; parts of bass shawms marked NH; lyre guitar; English cittern; triangular psaltery; 2 violins: one by Giorgio Serafin, Venezia, 1740; nail violin.

History: The Contarini-Correr Collection was formed by Marco Contarini (1631-1689), Procurator di San Marco, Piazzola. Pietro Correr of Venice inherited them, selling them in 1872. Some were acquired by the Museo Civico, Venice, a few by the Musée of the Paris Conservatoire; most went to the Musée of the Conservatoire de Musique, Brussels.

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VERONA (VR), Veneto

Primary responsibility: Conservatore Bibliotecario.

Open: only by appointment with the librarian. Information sent: 1989.

Collection: 71 European instruments, primarily winds, and most 16th c. They include: 13 recorders, 12 transverse flutes, 4 crumhorns, 2 doppiani, 16 curved cornetti, 2 double curved cornetti, 7 mute cornetti; stopftrompete by Anton Schnitzer, Nürnberg, 1585; tenor trombone, Venice, 1560; bass trombone, Anton Schnitzer, Nürnberg, 1579; the remaining instruments are largely 19th c.

History: The Accademia Filarmonica di Verona was founded in 1543 by the fusion of two preexisting academies. In 1564 the Count Mario Bevilacqua (d. 1593) endowed the Accademia with a rich estate of instruments. There was also an Accademia collection of stringed instruments which unfortunately have not survived.

Services: guided tours, microfilm.

Giuseppe Turrini. "L'Accademia Filarmonica di Verona dalla fondazione (maggio 1543) al 1600 e il suo patrimonio musicale antico", in Atti e Memorie dell'Accademia di Agricoltura Scienze e Lettere di Verona (1940; abstract 1941), series V, XVIII: 134-200.

Anthony Baines, "Two Curious Instruments at Verona", Galpin Society Journal (1953) 6: 98-99.

Marcello Castellani, "Two late-Renaissance Transverse Flutes", Galpin Society Journal (1972) 25: 72-79.

Rainer Weber and John Henry van der Meer, "Some Facts and Guesses Concerning `Doppioni'", Galpin Society Journal (1972) 25: 22-29.

M. Castellani, "A 1593 Veronese Inventory", GSJ (1973), 24: 15-24.

R. Weber, "Some Researches into Pitch in the 16th c. with Particular References to the Instruments in the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona", GSJ, (1975) 28: 7-10.

Edward H. Tarr, "Cesare Bendinelli", Brass Bulletin (1977) 17: 31-45; (1978) 21: 13-24.

E.H. Tarr, Ernst W. Buser. Die Trompete: Instrumente und Documente von Barock bis zur Gegenwart. Albruck: Hoffset [1979-80].

R. Weber, "Die Instrumenten-sammlung der Accademia Filarmonica in Vernona und Probleme ihrer Restaurierung", Tibia (1981) 6: 313-320.

Barra Boydell. The Crumhorn and Other Renaissance Windcap Instruments. Buren: Frits Knuf, 1982. J.-H. van der Meer, R. Weber. Catalogo degli strumenti musicali dell'Accademia Filarmonica di Verona. Verona: Accademia Filarmonica [Grafiche Fiorini, 1982].

VERONA (VR), Veneto

Primary responsibility: direttore; conservatore del Museo.

Open: by appointment.

Information sent: 1990.

Collection: 14 instruments from the 16th c.: 2 recorders, 8 transverse flutes, 2 double curved cornetti, 2 mute cornetts.

Filadelfio Puglisi, "The Renaissance Flutes of the Biblioteca Capitolare of Verona: The Structure of a Pifaro", Galpin Society Journal (1979) 32: 24-37.

John Henry van der Meer, Ranier Weber. Catalogo degli strumenti musicali dell'Accademia Filarmonica di Verona. Verona: Accademia Filarmonica [Grafiche Fiorini, 1982].

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VITTORIO VENETO (TV), Veneto

Primary responsibility: professore.

Open: 14.30-17.30, Th-Sa.

Information sent: 1992.

Collection: 23 instruments, 21 keyboards. Early pianos: square, L. Hoffer, Venezia, ca. 1750; grand, J. Schantz, Vienna, ca. 1800; squares: G.C. Stange, Dresden, ca. 1820; G.C. Gunther, Magdeburg, ca. 1820; grands: C. Loeschen, ca. 1827; C. Berzioli, Parma, ca. 1835; F. Rausch, Vienna, ca. 1835; Wopaterni, Vienna, ca. 1860; square, Eckardt, Vienna, ca. 1860 (English action); grand, C. Bechstein, ca. 1900; upright, C. Feurich, ca. 1980. Copies: 1 piano, 5 harpsichords, arpicordo, clavichord, bible regal, hurdy gurdy; cornetto, recorder.

Services: concerts, courses, conferences.

Recordings: 3 recordings played on harpsichord copies in the collection.