A Wonderful Musical Time

Last Saturday my Father, my older sister Wendy and I went to the Barcelona's Music Museum Inauguration! Oh, it was something to see...
First of all, there was, of course, the inaguration speech. It was quite interesting. I remember the last sentence... "Long live Barcelona, but especially, LONG LIVE THE MUSIC!!"
There were several groups who played for the inauguration concert, and we attended two. Just let me go and check the programme... We attended the concert that the Municipal Barcelona Band (it was really an orchestra, and in Spanish it was called La Banda Municipal de Barcelona), and the Klimt Quintet (in Spanish, El Quinteto Klimt). It was really nice, and they played beautifully. And oh, the beautiful grand piano!!!!! It was B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L! Oh, I like grand pianos very much! It was black, and it shone like anything. And how it sounded!!
Then we went to visit the museum. As it was the inauguration, the entrance was free. It was a big corridor that went around and at the end you were at the same spot that when you began (good!!). So we started. There were huge glass showcases, and in them you could see al kind of instruments, from the oldest to the newest, and an explanation about the epoqhes and about the music fashions then. It was really very interesting. I wrote down a list of some of the instruments.

—There was an oboe made in the 18th century.
—There was a cello made in 1744, from Barcelona, Spain. =]
—There was a bassoon made in 1750.
—There was a harp made in 1775, from Paris, France.
—There was a guitar made in 1780, from Spain. =]
—There was a flute made in the 19th century.
—There was a violin made in 1803, from Paris, France.
—There was a grand piano made in 1820.
—There were castanets made in 1850, from Spain. =]
—There was a zither made in 1875, from Germany.
—There was a Pianola made in 1911, from the United States.
—There was a harmonica made in 1955, from Germany.
—There was an electric organ made in 1960, from Barcelona, Spain. =]

And I left the best ones for the end. One, THERE WAS A GLASS FLUTE made in 1844 from Paris, France!!!! Glass! Two, there was a sort of trombone that ended in a dragon face and was made of a sort of copper. It was made in 1800, and it was called "Boccen" in Catalan. (??) Three, there was like a long horn in a snake shape, made in the 17th century. It was also made of a sort of copper. And four, a sample of the first “CD’s”… My Papa explained to me how they worked. The disk is perforated in certain places, and the holes are of certain length or width. It is placed on a sort of piano, with the top up, like a grand piano. Then, you set the disk turning. As it turns around, little handles fall in the holes, and as they hammered the strings, they made the piano sound.
It was really something amazing. I did enjoy it! 'Cause you know, I LOVE MUSIC!!!!!