MFA Highlights: Musical Instruments

$19.95 at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Musical instruments are among the most meaningful artifacts produced by humankind, a marriage of technology, artistry, symbolism, religion, and entertainment. Musical Instruments presents over 100 examples from the MFA’s world-renowned collection, spanning centuries and cultures, offering a brilliant array of instruments as producers of aural and visual delight. The pieces shown here – which range from an ancient Greek trumpet to a modern lap steel guitar, and from earthenware panpipes to the complex…