Hey guys, so we’re now at the music history museum in Trondheim so it should be pretty interesting, and we’ll give you guys a view of where we’re at. Apparently, the actual city of Trondheim was so bad in the summer time because they buried all the rich people in the church underneath the floor of church, and so the smell was really, really, really bad. It was a major fishing traffic area so all of the wealthy people would go out to the country side, which was all of maybe a 10 minute drive from the main city. We are now on somebody’s farm that has been converted to the museum, sorry to the music museum. We’re just getting some tags here.
Everybody received a little ticket? Yes, very well. The museum has two types one exhibition downstairs, which is a guided tour and the instrument collection, which is upstairs in the museum, and we will visit the instrument museum first, so follow me.
Down the hatchet.
Where we are now is actually an old farm, but now it’s a musical museum so right here is where they used to keep the pigs, and the instrument collection we call it the barn, because it was part of the old barn. For the guided tour we’ll meet here at ten to eleven. I will follow you up to the instrument collection and feel free to ask me any questions you have. My name is Natalie and I’m here for you, here to help you so follow me and we’ll go upstairs. We have an elevator, some of you prefer an elevator? No, so the others will wait and I’ll come back.
We can wait. I like the ducks they’re cute. Thank you. Really cool. God look at all of these. It’s not quite as modern as the modern instrument museum in Phoenix, but … Cool. The organ that we saw in that church actually had 10,000 pipes, it’s a German organ. Actually that’s pretty cool, so these are little pipes, little music pipes and they’ve got tags from all over the world. Germany, Romania, Estonia, Norway, Guatemala, Portugal, Denmark, it’s cool because I have seen these little like children’s pipes all over the world, everywhere I go.
For my violin friends, I’m calling out to one of our correspondence Avi Goodman, he’s an absolute fanatic for violins, circa the 1820’s. How cool, a harp piano, awesome. I don’t think you guys can see that but the strings on this thing are super thick, and all the way down to super, super fine, as it goes all the way back. How cool. Always loved harp music. Oh that’s cool, look number 124 there it’s like a viking ship harp. 124 let’s see, a bow harp out of Burma, that’s cool. I guess it’s not quite a viking ship if it’s from Burma but there you go.
Harpsichord, a virginal, the string of the virginal is plucked by a plectrum in the same way that a harpsichord.
How beautiful, look at that inlay. More violins for my violin fanatics out there, these are from the 1760’s, 1790’s some of the inlay on these things is just beautiful.
We got stopped from filming. But owner of the farm was a rich Russian, a pianist, and they wanted to create a museum of instruments from all over the world.