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The Human Touch—New York’s Metropolitan Museum Unveils an Exhibition Correlating Instruments to the Body

September 4

It is described as the first major museum show to explore the relationship between bodies and musical instruments, gathering some 130 instruments, paintings, sculptures, and drawings from around the world.

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