Gulangyu Piano Museum

The piano museum displays more than 70 clavichords collected by Hu Youyi, who was transported back to Gulangyu from Australia. The pianos here not only have a long history and various kinds, but also are peculiar. Many pianos in Gulangyu piano museum have gone through the two world wars. Candlestick lighting, as an ornament, has a history of more than 100 years. A visit to the piano museum is a visit to the history of piano development in the world.

Gulangyu Piano Museum

The Gulangyu Piano Museum, completed in January 2000, is located in the "Tingtao Pavilion" of Shuzhuang garden, Gulangyu scenic spot, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, covering an area of 450 square meters.

The Gulangyu Piano Museum has two floors and two management buildings. The museum displays more than 40 clavichords collected by Hu Youyi, a patriotic overseas Chinese. Among them, there are rare gold-plated pianos, the world's earliest quadrangle piano and the largest vertical piano, the ancient hand-held steel piano, the pedal automatic piano and the eight pedal clavichord produced 100 years ago.

historical origin

Hu Youyi's lifelong love for Qin is his hometown. Hu Youyi's infatuation for Piano Art and his unforgettable love for his hometown seem to be the two main strings of Hu Youyi's life. The two interweave, so he has the complex of repaying his hometown with art. When Hu Youyi and Huang Yulian learned that the Gulangyu district government took the development and construction of music culture as a major measure for urban construction and tourism development, they particularly agreed. Therefore, Hu Youyi and Huang Yulian decided to send their world-famous piano collection back to their motherland and transport it to their hometown to establish a piano museum. During the period of September 8, 1998, Hu Youyi and his wife contacted with the Gulangyu district government and signed a contract.

In 1999, the piano began to be shipped. Hu Youyi and his wife also experienced the psychological journey of old Mrs. Schmidt, and they had never been better. Hu Youyi and his wife personally supervised the procession when the piano was transported from Xiamen to Gulangyu wharf. They were relieved when they saw that the babies arrived at their new home safely. On January 8, 2000, China's first and rare Gulangyu piano museum opened in the beautiful Shuzhuang garden "tingtaoxuan".

Related allusions

On January 8, 2001, the first anniversary of the establishment of Gulangyu Piano Museum, Hu Youyi and his wife flew back from Australia. They also brought three boxes, more than 50 pairs of piano candlesticks and four oil lamps.

On April 20, 2001, Hu Youyi signed the second phase contract with the Gulangyu Garden Management Institute for the piano museum, and donated another 30 world-famous pianos of different ages, including the 3-meter-long luttner that he usually plays. Shuzhuang garden connects Sheling garden with tingtaoxuan with a construction area of 500 square meters, expanding the exhibition area to nearly 1000 square meters. In November 2001, Hu Youyi transported 40 valuable pianos and 4 Piano stringboards (pronunciation boards) from Australia to Gulangyu as exhibits of the second phase of the new Gulangyu piano museum. On December 22, 2001, the second phase of the new Gulangyu piano museum opened on the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Xiamen Special Economic Zone.

At the beginning of 2003, Hu Youyi brought more than 100 clavichord handles of different shapes collected at home to Gulangyu piano museum.

Collection

The Gulangyu piano museum displays more than 70 clavichords collected by Mr. Hu Youyi who was transported back to Gulangyu from Australia. The pianos here not only have a long history and various kinds, but also are peculiar.

Clementi made the quadrangle piano in the early 19th century, which is the world's largest and most sonorous. The double keyboard clavichord made by piano maker Shu Nan in 1906 has four sets of strings, eight pedals, two layers of keys, and the black and white keys are reversed. In addition, there is a royal piano with three crowns in it in the museum. It was made in 1878 by bode, and its legs are "s" shaped. It is a street art The handcranked Street piano and the most complicated organ in the world. Many pianos have gone through the two world wars, and the candlestick lighting as a decoration has a history of more than 100 years. A visit to the piano museum is equivalent to a tour of the world piano development history.

An expensive and fully automatic "hinas" musical instrument made in the United States in 1928 plays works of Beethoven, Chopin and Brahms realistically with rolls of perforated Guqin scores. It becomes the background music of the museum and accompanies the surf of Gulangyu. There is also a piano, which was burned into two pieces by a big fire, and then linked up, becoming a piano that can't be played in the piano museum.

On October 31, 2003, Gulangyu ushered in its first pipe organ. The 1872 giant pipe organ has 80 sound plugs, nearly 3000 sound pipes and four layers of keys. It takes four containers to transport all the components. The installation of this organ is huge. It takes one and a half years to make every sound tube produce beautiful music. We can also go to Gulangyu to listen to the wonderful music.

Visit information

1.116, about 40 minutes / 6.1km

Xiamen medical station 420 meters walk to shuanghan intersection station

Take bus No.116 at station 11 and get off at ferry station

Walk to the ferry terminal to buy tickets, take a boat to Gulangyu, walk about 1.5 km south to Shuzhuang garden, and buy tickets to enter,

Climb up the hill to the piano museum

2.127, about 40 minutes / 6.1km

470 meters walk from Xiamen medical station to shuanghan intersection station

Take bus 127 at 10 stops and get off at the ferry station

60 meters walk to Piano Museum

3.950, about 40 minutes / 6.3km

Xiamen medical station 530 meters walk to Lianban international trade station

Take bus No. 950 (or 952) at station 9 and get off at the ferry station

Walk to the ferry terminal to buy tickets, take a boat to Gulangyu, walk about 1.5 km south to Shuzhuang garden, and buy tickets to enter,

Climb up the hill to the piano museum

4.657, about 40 minutes / 6.0km

Xiamen medical station 400 meters walk to shuanghan intersection station

Take bus no.657 at station 11 and get off at Shengping intersection

200m walk to Piano Museum

5.30a Road

The whole journey is about 40 minutes / 6.6km

470 meters walk from Xiamen medical station to lianbanwai Library City Station

Take No. 30A (or no. 30b, No. 23, No. 656, No. 10) at No. 11 station and get off at the ferry station

Walk to the ferry terminal to buy tickets, take a boat to Gulangyu, walk about 1.5 km south to Shuzhuang garden, and buy tickets to enter,

Climb up the hill to the piano museum

Address: Shuzhuang garden, No.7, gangzai back road, Gulangyu, Xiamen

Longitude: 118.06903836442

Latitude: 24.43947427329

Tel: 0592-2060238

Tour time: 1-2 hours

Transportation information: the piano museum is located on Gulangyu Island. After arriving at Gulangyu Island by boat from XiaGu wharf, the international cruise center, you can walk there.

Ticket information: no ticket required

It's included in the Shuzhuang garden admission. Admission is free at 7 p.m.

Opening hours: 8:15-17:45;

Lecture time: 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 13:30, 14:30, 15:30, 16:30;

Lecture time: 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00;

There will be a piano performance after each presentation.