Beeskow Music Museum

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The Beeskow Music Museum is an exhibition of mechanical and self-playing musical instruments . It was founded in Monschau - Imgenbroich in 2006 and moved to Beeskow an der Spree in 2014 , where it was reopened in May 2018 in Beeskow Castle under the leadership of the newly founded Friends' Association . The city of Beeskow has now acquired the entire museum from the founder and restorer Thomas Jansen.

history

The music museum arose in the 1980s from a passion for collecting Jansen, who initially rented the vacant Festhaus Wiesenthal and later the Carat Hotel in order to exhibit his objects there. After the building was converted into a hotel, Jansen had to move to Rosenthalstrasse before he could take over the building of the former "Alte Molkerei" in Erlenstrasse in Imgenbroich, which was renovated and converted from private funds on a private initiative between 2007 and 2009 was. Finally, the new Music Museum was opened there in 2009, which presented a cross-section of the development history of self-playing musical instruments from three centuries on over 700 m² with 161 items and 7300 individual pieces. Due to the requirements of the fire protection regulations, the continued existence was no longer guaranteed and Jansen then decided to transfer his collection to the Beeskow community. It was there that the music museum in Beeskow Castle was reopened in 2018.

exhibition

A large number of restored instruments can be seen and heard in real operation in the museum during a guided tour. In the integrated museum workshop, historical machines are used to demonstrate how music was once converted from the score into a perforated paper tape . In addition, it will be shown how old original rolls are scanned and re-punched with today's computer technology. The exhibition also has a collection of around 4500 piano rolls for various systems.

The instruments

The exhibits include a Style 18 trumpet organ from DeKleist , North Tonawanda, New York , which is probably the only ready-to-play specimen of its kind in Europe. Four different reproduction systems are currently on display in the concert hall on the upper floor . These instruments enable the faithful reproduction of historical recordings by former pianists and composers. A particularly rare "DUCA" -Kabinett piano company JD Philipps from Frankfurt, a Steinway - "Vertigrand" -Klavier with a Welte-Mignon paving from 1907, a Welte Vorsetzer , an Aeolian Duo Weber Style wings as well as a Hardman Welte Licensee grand piano can be demonstrated.

The collection also includes large instruments such as the Orchestrion from Imhof & Mukle from Vöhrenbach , model Badenia II. A Duo-Art concert organ from Aeolian , New Jersey is currently being restored for the organ chamber that has already been prepared. This organ with about 1,200 pipes was originally installed in Harrods department store in London. Furthermore, the Hupfeld Phonoliszt violina, a self-playing piano with three violins from Leipzig's Ludwig Hupfeld AG, is waiting to be restored.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eifeler Nachrichten, April 19, 2014, page 15 ( North Eifel)
  2. ↑ Musikmuseum 2011 , on the website of the Imgenbroich Heimatverein
  3. ↑ Out of town with a sounding game , in Aachener Zeitung from April 18, 2014

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