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The Music room gets its name to the presence of pianos. At Kees's time this room had a different utilization. This room was called Red Room. The ceiling had been painted with flowers bunches ornaments all over the nineteenth century. An imposing twenty-four lights chandelier hangs from the ceiling; it is made in golden bronze and opaline glass and dates back to the eighteenth century, like probably the floor.
The two square pianos are of German and Austrian manufacture. Near them stays a music shaft stand with alternating inlays and vegetable ornaments, and a lyre on the shaped support.
The important looking-glass is made in carved golden wood and decorated with a rich profusion of shells, floral festoons and fruit, angel heads, curls, broken lines patterns and interlacing ornaments. It leans on the contemporary white marble console supported by trunk-pyramidal legs. It is the work of skilful nineteenth century workmen, who seemed to have drawn inspiration from the monumental and exuberant Louis XIVth style dressing table with double looking-glass realized by Jules Auguste Fossey. Togheter with the also well-known Jeanselme, he was one of the most famous French carvers and started his career working with Alexandre Georges Fourdinois, supplier of the Royal Family, whose works were known all over the world. It is interesting to notice that this furniture cyma bends down near the ceiling. The complicated structure was probably ordered by Mr. Kees (to whom it belongs, as stated in the contemporary inventories) and was perhaps designed specially for this room.
On the console top stays a porcelain vase with golden bronze ornaments, feminine figures and small putti. It is of French manufacture. On the black Varenna marble fireplace lays a clock of French manufacture, as stated by the inscription "Gille Lainé/Mer du Roi". It is placed in a rich shelf shaped frame, that is made in golden bronze and is decored with flowery shoots, curls, shells and flowers. At both sides stay two putti respectively holding a shield showing a balance and a crown with a palm branch, the symbols of justice. The wall arrangement rests on a red marble base.
The elegant little Empire small table has crossed legs joined by a shapely slat, two lateral height adjustable supports, it is venereed with golden mohogany feathers and was manufactured in the beginning of the nineteenth century.   
A rich series of various shapes armchairs, all dating back to the 19th century and belonging to Mr.Kees is placed along the walls. Among them stand out the borne oval in the middle and two chairs with backs of English taste.
With such a quantity of decorations, furnishings and objects it sometimes seems astonishing how people dressed with the wide clothes of the time could move in these rooms with agility and without breaking something.At the beginning of the century the room furniture was completed by two paintings showing a Marina and a view of Venice. There were also majolica amphorae and, according to the custom of the nineteenth century Seventies of decoring the walls with porcelain, a plate hung on the wall.
Actually stay here two "Ottocento" prints and a end "Ottocento" loocking-glass" with golden wood frame hangs on the opposite wall.