Word: winternitz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opened new exhibition galleries, and 800 items from one of the world's most impressive collections of musical instruments are on view at last. Many have been restored to playability. The Met plans to tape-record their sounds-"truthful witnesses of early musical culture," Curator Emanuel Winternitz calls them-and pipe them into headphones for visitors. To start a series of recitals in the museum's auditorium in which professional musicians will demonstrate the capacities of rare items in the collection, Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski has already played the oldest piano in existence, a 1721 creation by the Florentine...