Boston's Logan International Airport, Terminal E

NYC's Times Square

NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met (Part 1) - Musical Instruments

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art contains over 2 million works of art, including a unique collection of over 5000 musical instruments from around the world. The Met is worth every cent of the $20 entrance fee, even though I managed to wangle half-price as a student despite the fact my ID had expired last month! The audio guide is an essential companion for $7.50. You can get there by taking the green-coloured (Lexington Avenue/IRT East Side) subway lines served by the "4, 5 and 6 trains" and getting off at 86th Street station. It's about a 5-10 minute walk from there. The museum is located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile with its entrance on 82nd Street. It's very hard to miss once you're walking towards it along Fifth Avenue. There's also free Wi-Fi inside.


The world's oldest piano. Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano in 1698 but the one pictured is the oldest of three surviving items from 1720, 1722 and 1726. Cristofori called it "gravecembalo col piano e forte" (large harpsichord with soft and loud [sound]).

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