{"id":21543,"date":"2024-01-03T11:54:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T17:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=21543"},"modified":"2024-01-03T11:54:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T17:54:34","slug":"the-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/new-york-2023\/the-met\/","title":{"rendered":"The Met"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thursday Dec. 14th, we took the subway to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’d bought tickets online at the last minute in our hotel room and was glad we didn’t have to wait in that line. The coat check line was long enough. So many people there, always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are so very many wonderful things to see at the Met and you need at least a full day there, and preferably a few more leisurely days. But we didn’t have that kind of time, and headed straight to the Impressionists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mom says that this piece, by Toulouse-Lautrec, is her favorite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After spending some time with the Impressionists, a good amount of time but never enough, I wanted to see the instruments. The last two times I was there the instrument rooms were under construction, and I was eager to see the new layout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This marvel was outside the first room in a case. It’s a Bellaphone, a double tuba and baritone, which was “made to the specifications of tuba performer and teacher William Bell, who set modern standards for tuba playing in America. One mouthpiece receiver serves both instruments and leads to the rotary change valve; the other allows the tuba to be played independently. Two players can thus play the instrument simultaneously. ” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very cool, but it seems kind of a shame that it’s in a museum, though; I feel like somebody should be playing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We heard music coming from the other end of the hall and turned to see that somebody had started playing the giant organ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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