The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) enriches our world by collecting, preserving, and making accessible an astonishing variety of musical instruments and performance videos from every country in the world. MIM offers guests a welcoming and fun experience, incomparable interactive technology, dynamic programming, and exceptional musical performances. MIM fosters appreciation of the world’s diverse cultures by showing how we innovate, adapt, and learn from each other to create music-the language of the soul.
Why ? Because somebody could. Seems to be the answer to may of life's pressing questions, like this one. But I'll admit, It's different. Need to have someone proficient at handling this behemoth of am instrument.
I understand putting them in a dry place like Phoenix, but with times as they are, and precious to Americana as those are, a change in location might be advisable. Just sayin....
And don’t forget his forgotten masterpiece the octoviolin, which required a really short person in order to play and could only be tuned with fine-tuners (or the cheese-cutting wire he used as its strings would snap), requires you to put very strong plastic between its bridge and strings, and was scrapped after the disastrous playing of its inaugural piece “A Cat On A Chalkboard”, which resulted in it shattering the glasses of several vision-impaired members of the orchestra (and also brought down the glass chandelier in the concert hall), rupturing the eardrums of several octoviolinists (who to make matters worse, were the 9-year-old children of the 1st violins) and causing terrible headaches across the whole auditorium.
Wow! I've never seen a Gibson mandolin or guitar like that. I can't even find anyone else referancing such a mandolin anywhere. I know they made some two points in the 60s and 70s but thats from the thirties. What an incredible instrument!
