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Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina with six violins.

Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany

Siegfried's Mechanical Music Cabinet

This marvelous array is one of the largest collections of mechanical instruments in Europe.

Kerrytown Chime.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Kerrytown Chime

Everyone's invited to put on a miniature concert with this world-class musical wonder.

Joel Walker Sweeney gravemarker.

Appomattox, Virginia

Joel Sweeney's Grave

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

Glenn Miller Memorial

Peterborough, England

Glenn Miller Memorial at King's Cliffe

This World War II airfield is the last place the bandleader performed before he disappeared.

The locust (soprano Cristin Colvin) and the scientist (tenor Todd Teske) onstage in <em>Locust: The Opera</em>.

How to Write an Opera About Locusts

In Wyoming, a buzzworthy bug mystery hits the stage.

Cara Giaimo October 3, 2018

The small concert room.

Liverpool, England

St George's Hall

Charles Dickens described the concert room in this amazing Victorian hall as "the most perfect room in the world."

Orange County ska punk band Reel Big Fish, performing live in 2013.

Tracing Ska Music’s Great Migration

A journey from Jamaica to California, via England.

Evan Nicole Brown September 18, 2018

The Charles de Gaulle Saxophone Bridge

Dinant, Belgium

The Charles de Gaulle Saxophone Bridge

A whimsical bridge uses saxophones to pay tribute to two great men and the European Union.

The carillon.

Berlin, Germany

Carillon Berlin-Tiergarten

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Asheville's weekly drum circle in Pritchard Park.

Asheville, North Carolina

Pritchard Park Drum Circle

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Times They Are A-Changin'

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

Chalice/grigson #2

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Museum of Sound

An unusual collection of self-made musical instruments and unique noises.

View of the "Castle of Light" from across the Daugava.

Castle of Light

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

Tomb of Nie Er.

Tomb of Nie Er

The memorial gravesite of the young composer of China's national anthem.

Jimmy Shand Statue.

Auchtermuchty, Scotland

Jimmy Shand Statue

A small Scottish town's larger-than-life tribute to the celebrated accordion player.

The Watford Hornet.

Watford, England

The Watford Hornet

Flying high, this unusual hornet statue celebrates the local soccer team formerly owned by Elton John.

The interior of Van Gelder Studio, where dozens of classic jazz albums were made.

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Van Gelder Studio

Hundreds of iconic jazz records were made in this church-like space.

A visitor admires the mural on the ramp where punk was born.

Queens, New York

'The Ramp'

Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.