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Sound, technology and mechanics
Restoration workshop for musical instruments
The restoration workshop for musical instruments keeps keyboard instruments in an original and functional condition and builds models and demonstrations.
Musical instruments are subject to the laws of physics and utilise the technical achievements of their time. This is why the Deutsches Museum, as a museum for masterpieces of science and technology, also has a valuable collection of musical instruments.
The Deutsches Museum has its own restoration workshop for musical instruments in order to keep the keyboard instruments in their original and functional condition. It specialises in the restoration of harpsichords, clavichords, organs and fortepianos. Brass and woodwind instruments, violins etc. are passed on to external specialised restorers.
The technical equipment of the restoration workshop corresponds to that of a woodworking workshop. In addition to the actual workshop room with the workbench, there is an archive room where plans, drawings, etc. are stored.
In order to be played in the exhibition, the instruments are regularly tuned and checked to ensure that they are fit for use without being damaged.