Concertina
notes: label: Description
content: Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) was born into a family of musical instrument makers and dealers, and became interested in acoustics at an early age. His 1844 a British patent for “Concertinas and other Musical Instruments” (#10041) described a hand organ with a set of free reeds. This example came to the Smithsonian from King’s College, London, where Wheatstone served as Professor of Experimental Physics. The inscription reads “BY HER MAJESTY’S LETTERS PATENT / WHEATSTONE & CO. INVENTORS / 20 Conduit St. / LONDON.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Neil Wayne, “The Wheatstone English Concertina,” <i>The Galpin Society Journal</i> 44 (1991): 117-149.
label: Description
content: Neil Wayne, “The Invention and Evolution of the Wheatstone Concertina,” <i>The Galpin Society Journal</i> 62 (2009): 235-262.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0539.46
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0539.46
label: accession number
content: 1990.0539
objectType: label: Object Name
content: concertina
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
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content: fabric (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 7 3/8 in x 6 5/8 in x 5 3/8 in; 18.7325 cm x 16.8275 cm x 13.6525 cm