National Museum of American History (music)

Photo by Charlotte R. Bowman 2006

The Hall of Musical Instruments presents dozens of artifacts relating to the history, performance styles, and techniques of European and American music and the development of musical instruments. A video kiosk offers favorite works of Duke Ellington.

The hall features:

instruments made by four of the finest craftsman of stringed instruments, Gasparo de Salo de Brescia, Nicolo Amati, Guiseppe Guarneri, and, most famous of all, Antonio Stradivari
a 1710 spinet from London
a square piano made in Philadelphia in 1798
a Steinway grand piano used by the renowned Polish pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski on his 1892–93 concert tour of the United States.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibition.cfm?key=38&exkey=80