Austin & Dearborn Reed Organ (Melodeon)
date: label: date made
content: 1848 - 1852
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This reed organ was made Austin & Dearborn in Concord, New Hampshire, around 1848-1852. It is a piano style melodeon, serial #304, with a rosewood case, single keyboard, with a compass of FF - f3, and two pedals (one missing). The instrument is stenciled:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Austin & Dearborn<br>Manufacturers<br>Concord<br>N.H.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Charles Austin (1813-1884) and David M. Dearborn (1810-1865) were musical instrument makers in Concord, New Hampshire. David M. Dearborn and his brother Andrew were apprentices for piano and organ maker Abraham Prescott in Concord, New Hampshire, in the early 1830s. Austin and Dearborn formed their musical instrument company in 1848. Dearborn is listed as President of the company. In 1852, Dearborn left the company, and both went on to other musical instrument making enterprises.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Hampshire, Concord
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Organs
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hugo Worch
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.315723
label: catalog number
content: 315723
label: accession number
content: 58488
label: serial number
content: 304
objectType: label: Object Name
content: organ (melodeon)
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rosewood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)