Puti's and Keiko's journey to Prague and Vienna
APRIL 08: VIENNA
Hofburg Palace: The Silver Museum
This part of the Hofburg Palace displays the tableware the Habsburgs were using.
One of the interests of Empress Elisabeth was Japanese porcelain, to which a section of the museum has been dedicated.
Hofburg Palace: Other museums, the corridor area
Hofburg Palace: The Collection of Arms and Armor
Hofburg Palace: The Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
The instrument below is called a rackett. In spite of its small size it plays quite low in the scale, as the route of the air inside the instrument is very long.
The below instrument is called a giraffe piano.
A three-timbre cembalo.
The two below instruments were built to negotiate problems between tuning systems. In principle they are cembalos, but they have a multiple sets of strings.
During historic times the modern scale of equal temperament was not used. The musical intervals were based on the quotients of integer numbers. This resulted in the scales favoring certain keys on the expense of the others; transposing the melody to another key often required retuning of the instruments to make the music play harmoniously again. To avoid the problem these multiple cembalos were invented so that for each key there was a fingering that let the artist play in tune.
The modern scale of equal temperament is a compromise where the errors of the tones are spread evenly over the scale in the hope that they do not hurt too much the listeners' ears. Thus only one scale is used nowadays for string instruments.
A fish-shaped harp.
The Museum of Art History, hall and hall cafeteria
The Museum of Art History, the exhibition
The names of special importance here are Rubens, Dürer, Rembrandt, Brueghel, Velázquez. The hall exhibition is from Gustav Klimt.
St. Charles's Church (Karlskirche)
The music museum "Haus der Musik"
Exhibitions about historic composers and acoustics as a science. The second image is one of the exhibition listening rooms.
A typical Viennese cafeteria
