Flutes, oboes and an exquisite skalmeja from Amsterdam. Chalumeau, clarinets and bassoons. A strange cello from Ängelholm and a half-eaten viola. An ivory sinka, a natural trumpet from Nuremberg and a French horn from Karlskrona. Småland cavalry timpani with 300 years on their necks. The chapel's first metronome, purchased in 1831. An oboe da caccia that Johann Sebastian Bach may have held in his hand and a musical innovation from 1940s Copenhagen. And more.
The instruments tell the story of ceremonial duties in the academic farming village, of concerts and chamber music from the 1700th century onwards, of music as a craft and a fine art, of tears that roll to the music of Johannes Brahms, of different dictates on how Baroque music should be played, and of a centuries-old gathering in the hidden.
In this exhibition, Odeum and the Historical Museum at Lund University present around thirty of the most interesting instruments. Not since the 1800th century have so many of the collection's rarities been shown publicly.