The Museum of Musical Instruments of

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exhibits over 700 musical instruments from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries with particular attention to Lombard instruments. The collection contains plucked instruments, Lombard and

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violins The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

, hunting horns, numerous wood instruments (e.g.

flutes The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

oboes The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. A ...

clarinets The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. ...

, English horns),

bassoons The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuos ...

pianos The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

and some ancient organs. In particular the

lutherie (from

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in low

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) is appreciated all over the world for the high quality of its musical instruments. The museum also displays the equipment of the former

Studio di fonologia musicale di Radio Milano The was established 1955 in Milan following a joint initiative by Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna Bruno Maderna (21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian conductor and composer. Life Maderna was born Bruno Grossato in Venice but l ...

. In 2000 a donation by the added 79 musical instruments, made between the 18th and 20th century, to the civic collection; they had been collected by the Monzino family. These musical instruments represent the strong tradition of Lombard lutherie. The museum is situated in the

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complex that also includes

The Museum of Ancient Art The Museo d'Arte Antica ('Museum of Ancient Art') is an art museum in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It has a large collection of sculpture from late antiquity and the medieval and Renaissance periods. The variou ...

, the

Pinacotheca A pinacotheca (Latin borrowing from grc, πινακοθήκη, pinakothēkē = grc, πίναξ, pinax, (painted) board, tablet, label=none + grc, θήκη, thēkē, box, chest, label=none) was a picture gallery in either ancient Greece or anc ...

, the Applied Arts Collection and the

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(that includes the

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sections of the

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File:Museo strumenti musicali milano.JPG, A room of the museum File:Museo strumenti musicali milano 1.JPG, The

wind instrument A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator. The pitc ...

s hall File:Museo degli strumenti musicali di milano - copia di corni naturali - vienna 1712.JPG, Horns, ''Michael Leichamschneider'', Vienna 1712 File:Museo strumenti musicali 8.JPG,

Virginal The virginals (or virginal) is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. It was popular in Europe during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Description A virginal is a smaller and simpler rectangular or polygonal form of ha ...

, ''Ioannes Ruckers'',

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1600 File:Museo strumenti musicali -milano- Organo , Toscana XVIII sec..JPG,

Organ Organ may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a part of an organism Musical instruments * Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone ** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument ** Hammond ...

, Tuscany, XVIII File:Museo strumenti musicali -milano- Organo , Emilia XVIII sec.JPG, Organ, Emilia, XVIII File:Museo strumenti musicali -milano- fortepiano a coda attribuito a johann fritz, vienna 1815 ca..JPG, Piano, ''Johann Fritz'', Vienna 1815 file:Pianofote a giraffa - Vienna - XIX secolo - Museo degli strumenti musicali del castello sforzesco - Milano.JPG, Giraffe piano, Vienna, 19th century File:Studio di fonologia del 1955 della sede Rai di Milano - Museo degli strumenti musicali del castello sforzesco - Milano.JPG, Synthesizer File:Studio di fonologia del 1955 della sede Rai di Milano - Museo degli strumenti musicali del castello sforzesco - Milano (3).JPG, Audio console

References

*''Le città d'arte:Milano'', Guide brevi Skira, ed.2008, eutori vari *''Milano e provincia'', Touring Club Italiano ed.2003, autori vari *https://web.archive.org/web/20131111124406/http://www.comune.milano.it/dseserver/webcity/documenti.nsf/0/5A4CA30F4FDC7CA8C125726C005484BE?opendocument
COLLECTIONS OF APPLIED ARTS AND THE MUSEUM OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ON THE FIRST AND SECOND FLOORS OF THE ROCCHETTA
*https://archive.today/20130218110516/http://www.ufficiostampa.rai.it/comunicati_aziendali/20120614/rai__lo_studio_di_fonologia_torna_a__suonare_.html

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