slap stick
notes: label: Description
content: Wooden clapper or slap stick. The device is made of two wooden slats joined at one end used to produce a sound. It can be used as a percussive instrument in music or in theater to produce sound effects. The genre of “slapstick” humor gets its name from the mechanism, as the instrument has been used to emphasize loud slaps or blows in exaggerated physical comedies dating back to 16th Century Italian <i>commedia dell’arte </i>.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Vaudeville
label: Subject
content: Comedy
label: web subject
content: Entertainment
label: Subject
content: Theater
label: Subject
content: Humor
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ellen Roney Hughes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.1006.01
label: accession number
content: 1977.1006
label: catalog number
content: 1977.1006.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Slapstick
label: Object Name
content: slap stick
label: Object Name
content: slapstick
label: Object Name
content: clapper
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pine (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint, varnish (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: adhesive (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/2 in x 1 7/8 in x 1 in; 49.53 cm x 4.7625 cm x 2.54 cm