If you had no idea what “music” was, and you came upon “Treasures: Legendary Musical Instruments,” this special exhibition at the Musical Instrument Museum here, you would still know that something ...

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Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

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