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Bayernhof Music Museum features a major collection of automated musical instruments from the 19th and 20th centuries. Located six miles (10 km) northeast of downtown
Bayernhof Museum Opening: story by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Retrieved May 9, 2006.
Bayernhof Music Museum website
Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association (AMICA) website
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Bayernhof Music Museum features a major collection of automated musical instruments from the 19th and 20th centuries. Located six miles (10 km) northeast of downtown Pittsburgh
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in the suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania
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, it is housed in a German
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-style mansion sited on an dramatic overlook some above the Allegheny River Valley.
Bayernhof is the name of the mansion itself, a $4.2 million project completed in 1982 as a private residence by Charles Brown III (1935–1999), founder and CEO of Gas-Lite Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh. The house includes a rooftop observatory, an indoor cave, a swimming pool with a waterfall, ten fireplaces, eight full baths, three powder rooms, three full-size kitchens as well as a completely restored copper still.
The museum was a directive of Mr. Brown's will, and it opened to the public in 2004.
See also
*List of music museums
This worldwide list of music museums encompasses past and present museums that focus on musicians, musical instruments or other musical subjects.
Argentina
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* Academia Nacional del Tango de la República Argentina – Buenos ...
References
External links
*Pro, Johnna A. (2004)Bayernhof Museum Opening: story by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Retrieved May 9, 2006.
Bayernhof Music Museum website
Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association (AMICA) website
{{authority control Museums in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Music museums in Pennsylvania Musical instrument museums in the United States Historic house museums in Pennsylvania Houses in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Museums established in 2004 2004 establishments in Pennsylvania