Ethnic Music Museum of Busot

What this museum lacks in size, it makes up for in quality. The Ethnic Music Museum in the small municipality of Busot is based on a private collection donated by Carlos Blanco Fadol, a long-time resident of Busot originally from Uruguay.

Fadol's collection consists mainly of musical instruments acquired during his trips to five continents. However, several non-instrument exhibits are also worthy of note, like a machine that was used to imitate the sound of wind and storms in a Valencian theater, and a sound-generating tribal sculpture of a pregnant woman used to announce the birth of a child.

Among the instruments themselves are two examples of a kirar or kar, a lyre-like Ethiopian stringed instrument, with a sound box constructed from a human skull. As this instrument would normally have a bowl-shaped wooden sound box, it has been suggested that the skull versions are 19th-century tourist pieces made as bizarre souvenirs. 

Aside from the artifacts, displays include high-quality photographs of the instruments in use in their traditional environment. Many exhibits have QR codes that can be scanned by phone to generate a short sound file of the instrument being played.