Berlin Musical Instrument Museum Berlin Musical Instrument Museum The Berlin Musical Instrument Museum () is located at the Kulturforum on Tiergartenstraße in Berlin, Germany. The Museum holds over 3,500 musical instruments from the 16th century onward and is one of the largest and most representative musical instrument collections in Germany. Objects include a portable harpsichord once owned by Prussia’s Queen Sophie Charlotte, flutes from the collection of Frederick the Great, and Benjamin Franklin’s glass harmonica. The Museum was founded in 1888 at the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin from a collection assembled by Philipp Spitta and Joseph Joachim. Thirty-four instruments from the Museum
Recorder (musical instrument) Peter Harlan began to manufacture recorders in the 1920s, primarily for education use in the youth movement. Following Harlan’s success, Numerous makers such as Adler and Mollenhauer began commercial production of recorders, fueling an explosion in the instrument’s popularity in Germany. These recorders shared little in common with antiques, with large straight windways, anachronistically pitched consorts, modified fingering systems and other innovations. Nonetheless, the mass production of recorders allowed the instrument to flourish. Indeed, Hindemith's recorder trio for the “Plöner Musiktag” calls for Harlan-type recorders in A-E and D, and Carl Dolmetsch, son of Arnold, was agruably the first virtuoso