From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment featuring a guitare performance by 17-year-old Kimani Griffin, who is also a talented speed skater. [3:24]

Met curator Jayson Kerr Dobney on war and music in Hermann Hauser's Guitar, 1937. [3:16]

Met curator Bradley Strauchen-Scherer on intuition in Bartolomeo Cristofori's Grand Piano, 1720. [2:35]