QRS Playasax Harmonica
date: label: date made
content: after 1929
name: label: maker
content: QRS DeVry Corp.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This instrument was made by the QRS-De Vry Corporation in Chicago, Illinois, after 1929. It is a Playasax model made of bronze plastic with harmonica-style reeds, 2 sprockets, and a metal hand crank. This instrument plays perforated paper rolls. It is marked:</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Q-R-S<br>PLAYASAX<br>Q-R-S-DeVry<br> Corp.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This instrument features U.S. Patent 1752978, dated April 12, 1929 by Henry O. Drotning for a musical toy.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Harmonicas
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Peter Kassan Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0783.545
label: accession number
content: 1988.0783
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0783.545
objectType: label: Object Name
content: harmonica
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 5 1/2 in x 4 in; 30.48 cm x 13.97 cm x 10.16 cm