A room off the gallery, however, does have musical instruments that can be touched. This is called the "Hands on space" and it contains a hammered dulcimer, singing bowls, a dumbek, a West African xylophone, a mbira, a bodhran, paddle panpipes and croaking toads...and today, twelve very small children running at high speed from one instrument to another as if contact with each one was giving them a mild electric shock. Frankly I suspected that most of them had little idea what they were doing or why they were there and may as well have been in their kitchen bashing a kettle with a small spoon.
July 13th - Day 86
The Horniman Museum in Forest Hill has a collection of 1,600 musical instruments from around the world, including an extensive array of brass and woodwind instruments, a fine selection of early English keyboards, an abundant squeeze of concertinas, a 1937 Carlton jazz drum kit and 3,500 year old Egyptian clappers. Which is all very impressive, but sadly all these instruments are displayed out of musicians' reach in glass cabinets. The only music in the gallery comes from the fun sound stations where you can click on a picture of, for example, a cor anglais and listen to it.
A room off the gallery, however, does have musical instruments that can be touched. This is called the "Hands on space" and it contains a hammered dulcimer, singing bowls, a dumbek, a West African xylophone, a mbira, a bodhran, paddle panpipes and croaking toads...and today, twelve very small children running at high speed from one instrument to another as if contact with each one was giving them a mild electric shock. Frankly I suspected that most of them had little idea what they were doing or why they were there and may as well have been in their kitchen bashing a kettle with a small spoon.
A room off the gallery, however, does have musical instruments that can be touched. This is called the "Hands on space" and it contains a hammered dulcimer, singing bowls, a dumbek, a West African xylophone, a mbira, a bodhran, paddle panpipes and croaking toads...and today, twelve very small children running at high speed from one instrument to another as if contact with each one was giving them a mild electric shock. Frankly I suspected that most of them had little idea what they were doing or why they were there and may as well have been in their kitchen bashing a kettle with a small spoon.
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