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Author: Mike Johnson
Date: 2008-12-08 21:59
Know of any clarinet-related destinations worth seeing in person? Statues, monuments, graves of significant clarinetists, famous clarinets in museums, the cane in Spain that grows mainly on the plain, etc.?
Post your list here!
Mike Johnson
Napa, California
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2008-12-08 23:41
The Museum of Music in Prague has a decent collection of experimental instruments, including a couple dozen clarinets of varying levels of oddness.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: larryb
Date: 2008-12-08 23:53
The monumental statue of Tony Pay in Trafalgar Square, London.
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Author: Mike Johnson
Date: 2008-12-09 14:15
Here's a list of major clarinet collection museums, compliments of a University of Arkansas website (http://www.uark.edu/ua/nc/NCCollectionPage/MajorClarinetCollectionMuseums.htm):
USA
- Boston Fine Arts Museum, Boston **Excellent Website**
- National Music Museum, The University of South Dakota Vermillion
- Fiske Museum Collection, Claremont, CA - acquired by - Musical Instrument Museum, Arizona (to be opened in 2010))
- Sterns Collection, Michigan
- Library of Congress Washington, D.C.
- Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments New Haven
- Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection, Washington, D.C. **Excellent Website**
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Europe
- The Bate Collection, UK **Excellent Website**
- Edinburgh University Musical Instrument Collection, UK **Excellent Website**
- German National Museum, Nürnberg Germany
- Musée des Instruments de Musique, Belgium
- The Hague Museum, Holland
- Deutsches Museum, Germany
- Music Museum of Basel, Switzerland
- The Royal Academy of Music, UK
- State Museum of Florence, Italy
- Vleeshuis Museum, Belgium
- University of Leipzig Musical Instrument Museum, Germany
- Museum of Music History, Hungary
- Copenhagen Musical Instrument Museum, Denmark
Mike Johnson
Napa, California
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Author: mrn
Date: 2008-12-09 15:20
Carl Maria von Weber's grave is in Dresden.
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Author: NorbertTheParrot
Date: 2008-12-09 15:50
There's quite a good musical instrument museum in Paris, and they give mini-concerts to demonstrate the instruments. It's not especially strong on clarinets. Also, it has an incredibly annoying security alarm system that bleeps when you get too close to anything - "too close" being several feet away. http://www.cite-musique.fr/anglais/musee/presentation.aspx.
London has the Horniman http://www.horniman.ac.uk/collections/musical.php. I confess I haven't been there for nearly 25 years, but I recall it was quite interesting in an old-fashioned way. I have a book published in 1974 that lists about 80 clarinets in their collection. I don't know whether they are all on display; if they are, I'm surprised the Horniman isn't in Mike's list. I wasn't a clarinet player in those days, so wouldn't have gone specially looking for them.
Those travelling by public transport may wish to avail themselves of the 176 bus. This serves both the Horniman Museum and Trafalgar Square, where, as larryb pointed out, you can look for the "monumental statue" of Tony Pay. (Just one question, larryb. What sort of statue is there other than a monumental statue?)
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