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50 years ago, more than 400,000 people gathered on a dairy farm in upstate New York for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. 🕊️✌️🎸

📸Arnold Skolnick. Woodstock Music and Art Fair, 1969.

#Onthisday 50 years ago, more than 400,000 people gathered on a dairy farm in upstate New York for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. 🕊️✌️🎸 #Woodstock50

📸Arnold Skolnick. Woodstock Music and Art Fair, 1969. #MetRockandRoll
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because why not attract multi generations of music lovers with an extra cool exhibition of guitars played by John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, a piano Lady Gaga used, plus so much more. The Metropolitan Museum of Art so relevant!

#MetRockAndRoll because why not attract multi generations of music lovers with an extra cool exhibition of guitars played by John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, a piano Lady Gaga used, plus so much more. @metmuseum so relevant! #PlayItLoud
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The iconic Dan-Electro Vincent Bell Sitar used for Wild Mountain Honey to be featured in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll exhibit opening on April 8th!

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Celebrate 's birthday with a trip to his Mellotron synthesizer, on view now! 🎹🎶 With two sets of 35 keys, it uses prerecorded tapes to create orchestral sounds and effects—an atmospheric sound popular with 1960s psychedelic and progressive rock bands.

Celebrate #MickJagger's birthday with a trip to his Mellotron synthesizer, on view now! 🎹🎶 With two sets of 35 keys, it uses prerecorded tapes to create orchestral sounds and effects—an atmospheric sound popular with 1960s psychedelic and progressive rock bands. #MetRockandRoll
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Nope, not a summer sunset—that's ' Ray Manzarek's 1960s Vox Continental organ. 🌅🎹🎶 ⁣Its bright, punchy tones became an iconic part of The Doors' sound. ⁣⁣
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See it on view in 'Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll' through October 1.⁣ ⁣⁣⁣

Nope, not a summer sunset—that's #TheDoors' Ray Manzarek's 1960s Vox Continental organ. 🌅🎹🎶 ⁣Its bright, punchy tones became an iconic part of The Doors' sound. ⁣⁣
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See it on view in 'Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll' through October 1.⁣ #MetRockandRoll⁣⁣⁣
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Happy birthday, ! 🎸🐺 Because of its incredible tonal options, Garcia described 'Wolf'—his main guitar with the from 1973–79—as 'twelve guitars in one.' ⁣

See 'Wolf' in 'Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll' through October 1.

Happy birthday, #JerryGarcia!  🎸🐺 Because of its incredible tonal options, Garcia described 'Wolf'—his main guitar with the #GratefulDead from 1973–79—as 'twelve guitars in one.' ⁣

See 'Wolf' in 'Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll' through October 1. #MetRockandRoll⁣
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Love rock and roll? 🎸 Join us this weekend for Sunday at The Met as curators, music critics, and historians discuss the impact of one of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century.

Learn more: met.org/313n8SK

Love rock and roll? 🎸 Join us this weekend for Sunday at The Met as curators, music critics, and historians discuss the impact of one of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century. #MetRockandRoll

Learn more: met.org/313n8SK
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Happy birthday, Ringo Starr! 🥁See this drum head—the one he used during The Beatles’ famed Ed Sullivan Show appearances in February 1964!—on view in 'Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll' through October 1. met.org/rockandroll

Happy birthday, Ringo Starr! 🥁See this drum head—the one he used during The Beatles’ famed Ed Sullivan Show appearances in February 1964!—on view in 'Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll' through October 1. #MetRockandRoll met.org/rockandroll
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