Music Room

The Music Room, as one might expect from one so musically prolific and enthusiastic as the Professor, is a large and well-packed hall, though not as large as the Library. Racks upon racks of musical recordings and sheet music fill every alcove, nook and cranny. Gramophones, magnetic wire recorders, wax cylinders, phonautographs - you name a cutting-edge recording technology, the Music Room has it.

The walls and shelves are covered with framed photographs, bronze busts and mementos of the many, many artistes with whom the Professor has worked. And at the centre of them all sits the symbol of one of the Prof's greatest achievements - a gold gramophone disc of "The Indifference Engine", presented to him to mark the sale of a really quite large number of copies of the album.

The far end of the room is filled by a sizeable sound stage containing microphones and loudspeakers. Rumours of the involvement of Nikola Tesla and Oliver Heaviside in the construction of its sound system are not to be believed as the Professor assures us that his wiring is far superior and his amplifiers capable of a much wider range of frequencies than anything those silly sausages could devise.

Visitors are advised not to touch any bare wires or metal surfaces in the stage area.