Hello hivers, an happy Monday to you all! I hope you spent a nice weekend and a good start of a new working week. ❤️
Today I'm here to talk you about a wonderful museum in my city (Pistoia, Italy): the Museum of Music and Percussion Instruments "Luigi Tronci Foundation"!
I have to premise that Luigi Tronci is one of the uncles of my hubby. Now he is a 90 years old man full of stories about music (especially percussions) to tell. His family started to work on the music instrument a long time ago, in the middle of the 1700 with the organs built for the churches. As you can understand, cause the historical circumstances along the centuries, some of them were destroyed, but a large number remain housed in the churches all around the world. The last organ built was in the 1912 and that one is still in a church in my city. Since that moment, the Tronci's family started to focus itself to built percussions, especially cimbals! From that long long time experience and with the collaboration of other 3 cymbal artisans, was born the Ufip (that you can see here).
Coming back to the Museum of Music and Percussion Instruments, it started the activity in the 2008 thanks the creation of the Luigi Tronci Foundation.
The Foundation houses a collection of around 1,000 musical instruments from all the world (for the most part percussions) and an archive with documents, books, and recordings.
The museum was born to share musical culture with people through interaction with the instruments in the collection and as a place for small music event and music classes.
The museum is housed within the ancient beautiful building of the S. Giovanni Battista Conservatory Foundation in Pistoia, where a small portion of the collection is on display and where there is a wonderful courtyard too.
I went there on Saturday, in the late afternoon, because there was an event where Luigi received an award for his dedication to the music field.
During the event I took some pics to share with you about that beautiful places, starting from the part of the collection placed in the courtyard:
About the collection inside I could't take decent pics because there was the event and, fortunately, there was many people to celebrate Luigi, but I want to share with you also this special moment! At first, a pic of Luigi Tronci:
A moment of the event when the musician Gennaro Scarpato, in the center of the room, was playing a xylophone made using stones:
See ya soon and stay safe, Silvia
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