Autophone Organette
date: label: date made
content: ca 1878
name: label: user
content: Gutermuth, Mrs. C. R.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This organette was made by Autophone Company in Ithaca, New York, about 1878. It is a hand pressure operated model, with 22 free reeds. Accessioned with cardboard music strips (MI.68.13.01 - .25)</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This instrument features U. S. Patent #211821, dated December 3, 1878, by Henry B. Horton, for improvements in mechanical musical instruments that play perforated paper strips. In the patent description the inventor uses the term “autophone” to describe the instrument.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Ithaca
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Mechanical Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. C. R. Gutermuth
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.68.12
label: catalog number
content: 68.12
label: accession number
content: 277816
objectType: label: Object Name
content: organette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 10 in x 2 1/2 in; 26.035 cm x 25.4 cm x 6.35 cm