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Taliesin West vs Musical Instrument Museum
Musical Instrument Museum and Taliesin West are both rated highly by professional reviewers. On balance, Musical Instrument Museum ranks slightly higher than Taliesin West. Musical Instrument Museum comes in at 87 with praise from 8 reviewers like Travel + Leisure, Lonely Planet and Afar Magazine.
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12621 North Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd., Scottsdale, AZ 85259
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"Wright and apprentices constructed a desert camp here using organic architecture to integrate the buildings with their natural surroundings."
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"Even people who are not interested in architecture or Wright's style should walk around the buildings just to see how one of this country's most influential style-makers lived and worked."
Frommer's
"Wright believed in using local materials in his designs, and this is much in evidence at Taliesin West, where local stone was used for building foundations."
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Lonely Planet
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"Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the seminal American architects of the 20th century."
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Travel + Leisure
"Known as one of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpieces, Taliesin West was built in 1937 as Wright's winter home."
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Musical Instrument Museum
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4725 East Mayo Boulevard, Phoenix, AZ 85050
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"A fun destination for even casual music fans... among the museum's dazzling array of instruments are the piano on which John Lennon composed "Imagine," and the first Steinway."
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Lonely Planet
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"From Uganda thumb pianos to Hawaiian ukuleles to Indonesian boat lutes, the ears have it at this lively museum."
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Afar Magazine
"Even passionate music lovers will be likely to see an instrument they've never heard of before, and... might hear some of them played by visiting artists."
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Travel + Leisure
"Music lovers of all ages enjoy the MIM, a sweeping multimedia tour that spans continents and centuries, from primitive African drums and Highland pipes to Johnny Cash’s guitar and hip-hop turntables."
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Afar Magazine
"Don a headset, approach an exhibit, and wirelessly listen to African thumb piano or Mongolian throat singing at the vast Musical Instrument Museum."
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