Walker Reed Organ
date: label: date made
content: 1837-1843
name: label: maker
content: Walker
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This reed organ was made by Walker in Norwich, Connecticut, around 1837-1843. It is a small reed organ made of rosewood on a trestle stand. It has a single keyboard, with a compass of C – c3. Bellows suspended below the instrument are activated with a foot pedal. There is an engraved metal plate above the keyboard:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Walker’s Patent<br>Swell Seraphine<br>Norwich, Conn.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Norwich
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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.315722
label: catalog number
content: 315722
label: accession number
content: 58488
objectType: label: Object Name
content: organ
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rosewood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: organ without base: 9 1/2 in x 29 3/4 in x 17 in; 24.13 cm x 75.565 cm x 43.18 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: side base section: 26 in x 17 in x 1 1/2 in; 66.04 cm x 43.18 cm x 3.81 cm