02 Aug 2011 @ 8:17 AM 
 

African Music instruments rediscovered in Museum

 

It was a secret known to few Cincinnatians and to virtually no one outside of the Cincinnati Art Museum.

For decades, a spectacular trove of more than 800 antique musical instruments languished – untouched, neglected and forgotten – in storage throughout the museum’s meandering undercroft.
The discovery means that Cincinnati could possess one of the most important collections of non-Western musical instruments in the United States…

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Tags Categories: african art Posted By: nordend
Last Edit: 02 Aug 2011 @ 08 17 AM

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