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See the human body morph into musical instruments from around the world at a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A new exhibition that opened this week at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art puts 4,000 years of human music-making ...

‘Central to human identity’: exhibition at the Met connects bodies with musical instruments

Musical Bodies looks at 4,000 years of musical history and how humans have long forged relationships with instruments ...

Strings of history: Salvaged instruments find new life in Joydeep Mukherjee’s house museum

The musician, who is constantly on the lookout for rare instruments during his travels, hopes to spotlight the Senia ...
The New York Times

Why People Sound Like Instruments, and Instruments Look Like People

“Musical Bodies,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, revels in the blurry boundaries between humans and instruments. By Joshua Barone Visuals by Ye Fan Clap your hands. Tap a foot.
The New Yorker

A Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met

In 2007, Jayson Dobney, an Iowan with a master’s degree in the history of musical instruments, from the University of South Dakota, moved to New York to be a curator in the department of musical ...