The Red Room, decorated to represent the gift of the performing arts, includes brass instruments hanging from the mantel. Ballet slippers, tap shoes and musical notes are strung around the tree.

The exhibition also includes sculptures, video, and other art with the Disarm instruments hanging when they're not in use, cutting a distinctive silhouette into the white wall behind them.

“I ship all over the world,” says the jovial Bersis. “Even Greece! The instruments hanging throughout his shop look like museum pieces, with their inrtricate inlays. One shows a gathering of ...