Connecticut, a state in New England just a few hours' drive from New York City, is the home of some of the finest colleges in the country. Education calls for artifacts to illustrate history, and Connecticut has a few museums of note, including one devoted entirely to locks and locking mechanisms. The Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments in New Haven is even more interesting than the lock museum; it features instruments from many different time periods, countries and materials. Music students at college in Connecticut will drool over the harpsichords, pianos and keyboards from three centuries. Famous names in college music courses like Stradivari and Chickering appear on the instruments in this museum, which vary from stringed instruments to flutes and woodwinds, to the many kinds of folk instruments developed in cultures around the world. Digeridoos, drums and whistles from native tribes illustrate the role of music in our culture's spirituality and history.