PlaRola Organ Player Harmonica
date: label: date made
content: ca 1931
name: label: maker
content: Plarola Corp.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This player harmonica was made by the PlaRola Corporation in Easton, Maryland, around 1931. It is a player harmonica with a painted metal body with picture of organ pipes and keyboard, 16 single holes and 32 reeds, metal sprocket, metal handle, and a metal mouth piece. The instruments is marked:</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>PlaRola<br>ORGAN<br>If you can breathe, you can Pla Rola</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This instrument features U. S. Patent #1813337, dated July 7, 1931 by Martin D. Zimmerman and Henry Pullen.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Easton
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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: 1988.0783.562
label: accession number
content: 1988.0783
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0783.562
objectType: label: Object Name
content: harmonica
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 6 9/16 in x 4 1/8 in; 5.08 cm x 16.66875 cm x 10.4775 cm