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IFVIWASIX: Roots and Branches

SeattleHuge funnel-shaped sculpture of hundreds of acoustic and electric guitars, plus a banjo and an accordion, rising through a dark museum atrium
Trimpin, IF VI WAS IX: Roots and Branches, Museum of Pop Culture (then EMP), Seattle, 2010. Photograph: Patrick Swint · CC BY 2.0
Permanent collection

Trimpin’s permanent installation at MoPOP joins guitars into a single large instrument, played by robotic components in specially composed patterns.

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