The Mercer Museum in Doylestown is highlighting its musical instrument collection in a new exhibition that looks at how music connects us all.The exhibition, Everyday Rhythms: Music at the Mercer, presents an array of instruments.
"Henry Mercer, the museum's founder, was interested in collecting objects related to pre-industrial America, everyday life," says Cory Amsler, Vice President of Collections and Interpretation at the Mercer Museum.The exhibition explores how music can connect people across regions and cultures. "The human voice only carries so far," says Amsler. "Instruments could function to connect people across distances."Amsler says some instruments were used as tools of communication, while others were used to accompany ritual, or to send signals. He says bells, especially, have been used to signal timekeeping.Amsler says the Calithumpian Rattle is a noisemaker or music maker.
There's a section on instruments and the military, and another on the evolution of instruments, like the Pennsylvania German zither becoming the Appalachian dulcimer.Various sound stations can be found around the exhibition.Mercer, himself, played the fiddle.He says that Mercer often turned to music for comfort and refuge.Amsler says an exhibition like this is really about personal connections, and hopes that it expands the idea of "what music is" for museum visitors.
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