[sdiy] Cite de la musique, Paris

[karl dalen]

The Guitar Museum in Barcelona are nice, open all days except Sundays
i think, they have other instruments as well, lutes and such.

You need to understand Spanish if you want access to the info
about the items there.

KD

--- Den sön 2010-01-31 skrev Bob Weigel <sounddoctorin at imt.net>:

> Från: Bob Weigel <sounddoctorin at imt.net>
> Ämne: Re: [sdiy] Cite de la musique, Paris
> Till: "David G. Dixon" <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca>
> Kopia: "'synth diy'" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Datum: söndag 31 januari 2010 01.13
> Ya know, this brings up a good
> question.  Has anyone started a 
> *directory* for synthesizer collections that are open to
> viewing?  I 
> could put one on my page I guess if
> not.   Otherwise send me the link!
> 
> David G. Dixon wrote:
> 
> >I went to the Music Museum at Cite de la Musique in
> Paris today.  It's
> >brilliant.  If you enjoy looking at musical
> instruments, and find yourself
> >in Paris, you really should plan to spend half a day
> there.  They give you
> >an electronic doodad with headphones, and all the
> displays have one or more
> >audio presentations, and there are quite a few video
> presentations as well.
> >All in all, it has to be one of the nicest museums I've
> ever seen.
> >
> >They have a reasonably interesting synthesizer
> collection, including a giant
> >modular synthesizer/mixing desk/tape recording station
> which looks like
> >something from the Apollo mission (Houston, we have a
> problem!  Your VCOs
> >aren't tracking!).  It was built in 1967
> (according to the little sign) and
> >was apparently the first modular synthesizer built in
> France.  The modules
> >are very simple, but there are a lot of them -- about
> 12 VCOs, a few
> >envelope generators, a couple of filters, a few VCAs,
> and a couple of ring
> >mods, all patched from an enormous pin matrix. 
> Oh, and it has two big,
> >spherical metal speakers on either side.  Neato!
> >
> >They also have something called a "gmelophone" (IIRC)
> which looks like a
> >cross between a mixing desk and a Swedish modern
> dinette set, two Moog units
> >(a 900 series from 1965 and a Moog Percussion
> synthesizer of about the same
> >vintage (who knew?), a giant E-Mu system which
> apparently belonged to Frank
> >Zappa (which the sign said was built "around 1960" even
> though the company
> >wasn't formed until 1971 (!) -- when I pointed this out
> to the guide, he
> >said that was why the sign said "around" 1960), a
> VCS-3, a couple of Ondes
> >Martenot (but no mention of Messiaen!), and a few other
> odds and sods.  I
> >was expecting a bit more, and I must say the whole
> display was a little
> >dead.  The E-Mu was so far in the back that you
> had to squint to see what
> >the modules were (man they used a lot of jacks!). 
> Also, nothing was
> >patched, and it didn't look like any of the stuff was
> ever used (unlike the
> >rest of the museum, where the instruments are used
> fairly often).  It was
> >almost as if they all wished the 20th century had never
> happened (musically,
> >anyway).
> >
> >I'm a huge fan of harpsichords and lutes and stuff,
> though, and that part of
> >the museum is absolutely fabulous!
> >
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