ABSTRACT
The Handel House Foundation has three permanent exhibitions: the first and most important one is the Handel exhibition, which occupies 550 square metres and is located inside the historic birthplace of George Frideric Handel. The second, entitled Historic Musical Instruments, occupies 350 square metres in an adjoining modern building accessible directly from the historic Handel House. The ideal tour in a music museum involves an element of live, interactive music. A good audio guide requires artistic quality, as well as particular vocal parameters to aid the listener. The audio guide itself, then, is an artistic product that reflects the artefacts and narratives of the museum. The historical development of the keyboard compass is illustrated by another educational device that relies on tactile and audible experience rather than verbal explanation: on a digital piano, visitors can reproduce sampled sounds recorded on 21 instruments in the collection.
