This area displays new inventions and innovative ways
of constructing instruments from the 19th century.
You will discover how the saxophone was created and
get to know other novelties like the sarrusophone or
oddities like the walking stick violin.
Furthermore you will find instruments constructed with
unusual materials like a bassoon made of brass
or a flute made of glass.
One of the highlights of
this period w as the
boom in the use
of the piano: from
grand
pianos
used in concerts
to upright pianos
for domestic use.
In this part of the
exhibition you will
find out about how
the piano became
part of the middle-class
home
during
that
century;
sometimes adopting unusual forms like
the desk piano or the wardrobe piano.
Did you know that in the Romantic period they already
had their own MP3 player?