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The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments summer entertaining He eventually defined a uniqueImagined instruments reveal how we shape musicand how music shapes us. The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments is a guided tour through centuries of instruments that never existed. From ancient myths to futuristic media, these imagined devices appear in literature, theory, video games, and art, at times echoing real instruments, other times pushing far beyond the bounds of technology. This book presents a wide ranging collection of such creations,