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By Associated Press Updated: 08:42 GMT, 16 January 2012 A massive cache of musical treasures that's grown to include a fragile harp-piano, the pioneering Moog synthesizer and the theremin used for 'The Green Hornet' radio show has been shuffled over the years from a theater to an unheated barn and now languish, rarely seen or heard, in a Michigan storage vault. Spanning centuries and continents, the instruments worth at least $25 million by their chief caretaker's estimate are packed and stacked in an out-of-the-way storage room with water-stained ceilings. It's hardly the environment envisioned for them when Detroit businessman Frederick Stearns gave the University of Michigan the base of the collection a century ago with instructions that the instruments be exhibited - not invisible. 'The only way I can characterize it is Tut's Tomb, because it's been so forgotten about for so many years,' said Steven Ball, director of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments.