Photo Essay: Sound and Vision
Updated: Feb. 08, 2017Ever been inside a guitar? A team of German art directors and photographers commissioned to make an advertising campaign for the Berlin Philharmonic captured these striking pictures of musical instruments by taking them apart and mounting a camera inside each one.
Pipe organ
The Berlin Philharmonic’s organ consists of more than 6,000 pipes.
Guitar
Braces inside the smoke-filled shell resemble wooden beams.
Soprano saxophone
This woodwind’s straight body allows a clear view from one end to the other.
Contrabass
Light pours through the sound holes of this stand-up bass.
You’ve seen inside, now take a look—and listen—at the rest:
Originally Published:May 09, 2012
Originally Published in Reader's Digest