Fixation was monitored by the examiner using the video display of the instrument.
And so a postwar generation of groups began, which were popular in their day because they featured such a display of weird instruments.
My favorite addition is a dazzling display of brass instruments (and one conch shell, carved in the Republic of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific), suspended in midair inside a giant vitrine, as if they are dancing in space.
Further along the street, pop your head into the opulent baroque Palais Lascaris (11), which is a museum housing a fine display of musical instruments – this is also the only palace in this style that is open to the public (daily from 10am-6pm, closed Tuesdays).
In addition to the performances and display of the instruments of WITHIN, Atoui has collected a group of "sonic therapy" practitioners, who demonstrate these ideas about sound in a more individual way.
The immediate reason for the closing was roof repairs, but museum officials took advantage of the hiatus to refresh and reconfigure the display of its Western instrument collection.
"Raíces: The Roots of Latin Music in New York City," a display of photographs, posters, instruments, costumes and other items that document the evolution of Afro-Caribbean music in the city, on view through Jan . 26
"Raíces: The Roots of Latin Music in New York City," a display of photographs, posters, instruments, costumes and other items that document the evolution of Afro-Caribbean music in the city; through Sunday.
"The Croton Aqueduct: Illustrations by Fayette B. Tower," through April 6. "The Lubavitch of Brooklyn, an Intimate Portrait: Photographs by Steve Hoffman," through Feb. 2. "Raíces: The Roots of Latin Music in New York City," a display of photographs, posters, instruments, costumes and other items that document the evolution of Afro-Caribbean music in the city, through Jan . 26
Its starts chronologically with a display of maverick Renaissance instruments, including a serpentine cornett with a spitting dragon's head, and it progresses through a riot of fairground organs, musical boxes and mechanical songbirds into a contemporary world of Heath Robinsonesque invention.
