May 2, 2008

Claremont Faculty Protests Sale of Musical Instruments

By ANDREW MYTELKA

The Claremont Colleges have sold their 1,200-item collection of rare musical instruments that has languished for years for lack of money and has not been displayed since 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported. But the sale, to organizers of a new Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, is drawing criticism from music-faculty members at colleges in the Claremont consortium, a group of seven higher-education institutions. The purchase price was not disclosed, but was estimated at less than