Museo della Canzone Italiana
The Museo della Canzone Italiana stands in Sanremo, Italy, inside restored railway carriages at Parco delle Sette Note. A 1910 locomotive, Cirilla, and two 1927 centoporte carriages frame the visit.
Erio Tripodi founded the museum in the early 1980s, and Luciano Pavarotti inaugurated it in 1987. One carriage explores sound imitation, while the other follows voice recording and reproduction. Working music boxes, barrel organs, mechanical pianos, perforated paper rolls, radios, jukeboxes, microphones and instruments reveal each stage. The collection moves from nineteenth-century cardboard records and nail-studded cylinders to Edison’s phonograph, tape recorders and modern recording equipment. Its Sanremo Festival archive brings together scores, photographs, autographs, posters, stage-design sketches and festival microphones.
Historic personal objects include Gorni Kramer’s accordion, Fausto Papetti’s saxophone and Adriano Celentano’s guitar. Letters from Lina Cavalieri, Giacomo Puccini’s passport and an unpublished romance by Ruggero Leoncavallo add intimate glimpses of Italian musical life. A small chapel dedicated to Saint Cecilia stands near the train, giving this journey through sound a memorable setting.
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