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Dresden has been called many things, but "fishing village?" Take a close look at bottom...

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An open-air market for food and crafts on Saturday morning, watched over by Our Lady in...

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View of one corner of the Residenz-Schloss (Palace Castle). Lovingly restored to prewar condiiton, including the interior Green Vault.

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A young woman (fraulein?) walks toward the Frauenkirche and Neumarkt square. Note the ongoing...

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Another shot taken at intermission during an evening concert, showing how balconies stacked five...

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Excavations at the edge of Neumarkt, uncovering foundations of buildings from before World War II,...

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Dresden's fame could rest on its fleet of the oldest surving steam-driven paddlewheel boats in the...

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A total view of the sprawling Residenz-Schloss Castle complex. See this vista while you can...

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The Hayden clavichord with its permanent tension wires to let the hinged lid hang open.

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Uploaded on Feb 17, 2009

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My home-built clavichord using button keyboard layout of a Hayden Duet concertina. Designed and...

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Treble reed banks in the Bastari Hayden. Everything screws together for easy maintenance.

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Aluminum key action levers and wooden pads of the Bastari Hayden Duet Bandoneon

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Bastari Hayden bandoneon (square) next to a Stagi Hayden Duet concertina. Not museum pieces; I play them daily!

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Bastari Hayden Duet bandoneon (square) next to a Stagi Hayden Duet concertina. Button layouts are...

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Soccer fans? No, one sees the honeycomb pattern in grille work all over Prague, so this probably represents the busy bees.

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This statue in Prague's Tyn Church shows a woman carrying a bishop's mitre and a communion wafer...

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How many bands feature a crank organ, as on this Prague poster? And that beer is tops, too.

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Prague has even more towers than Dresden, and it's fun lining them up visually. St. Vitus Cathedral...

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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2008

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