{"id":33,"date":"2009-11-24T16:38:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T21:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2013-05-26T13:35:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T18:35:26","slug":"day-4-pm-musee-de-la-musique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/day-4-pm-musee-de-la-musique\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4 PM – Musee de la musique"},"content":{"rendered":"

After we saturated ourselves at the D’Orsay, we hopped on the Metro and had lunch in the Latin quarter; panini and cheese hotdog and our first carbonated beverage of the trip, cherry coke with REAL sugar. \u00c2\u00a0Then we hopped back on the metro and went up to Cite de la musique to the music museum. \u00c2\u00a0Many of the exhibits had a number on them, and you could dial it into your headset and hear either an excerpt played on the instrument, or some history about it.<\/p>\n

They had cases of instruments, with examples of the instrument’s evolution through history. \u00c2\u00a0The old lutes are amazing, and some of the old guitars had very intricate designs on the inside made out of layers of parchment. \u00c2\u00a0We ran through the evolution of the recorder and flute, and checked out the bassoon evolution. \u00c2\u00a0We also checked out the double-reed ancestor of the saxophone, before they wimped out and went to single reeds.<\/p>\n

The pictures aren’t fabulous, because the light was low, and everything was behind glass. \u00c2\u00a0Plus, I got\u00c2\u00a0chastised\u00c2\u00a0in French for using my flash. Oops! I’ll photoshop them when i get home.<\/p>\n

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We checked out a display of these cool instruments. \u00c2\u00a0We should start up a fund to get one of these for the FCPO! I think we could jam this in the back of a civic, which would save a lot of hassle over moving the harpsichord!<\/p>\n

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Laura, here’s what we need to look for in our next instruments! \u00c2\u00a0You need a violin with a head carved at the top (ignore the 3 extra strings), and I need an English Horn with a serpent head as the bell!! (I’m sure that won’t affect resonance in the slightest!)<\/p>\n

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I know the French Horn is hard, but how about this horn from 1820? It has some interesting valve work AND holes!<\/p>\n

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Instruments for unique individuals. \u00c2\u00a0The man with two extra arms for those extra lute necks, and the inverse hunchback, for the curvy oboe d’amore.<\/p>\n

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Eli was thinking about taking up the bass, but this looks big even to him!<\/p>\n

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Flutes made of glass. \u00c2\u00a0I guess schoolchildren learn on the wooden ones first, until they outgrow the clumsy stage.<\/p>\n

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That’s parchment inside. \u00c2\u00a0I wonder if those designs did anything acoustically, or were just decorative…<\/p>\n

Then we went and looked at the oboes again and I took more pictures.<\/p>\n

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I need to look this one up later… a double chambered oboe?<\/p>\n

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Mel with the case of old oboes.<\/p>\n

And that concluded our music museum tour. \u00c2\u00a0We took tons more pictures, and have some more on our picture site, and lots more on our computer (will upload later).<\/p>\n

Now getting our snooze on. \u00c2\u00a0Alarm set for 3am so we can catch the bus to the train to the airport for our 7am flight to India!<\/p>\n

Au Revoir for now. \u00c2\u00a0We may not have internet connectivity in India, so will be back on as soon as we can! \u00c2\u00a0Our itinerary is at the link at the top right of the screen, so you can track where we are. \u00c2\u00a0Night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After we saturated ourselves at the D’Orsay, we hopped on the Metro and had lunch in the Latin quarter; panini and cheese hotdog and our first carbonated beverage of the trip, cherry coke with REAL sugar. \u00c2\u00a0Then we hopped back on the metro and went up to Cite de la musique to the music museum. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}