Pitch Pipe
date: label: date made
content: 17th century
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This pitch pipe was made by an unknown maker in England, 17th century. It is made of wood with a sliding plunger with a knob, engraved with scale of pitches from D diatonically an octave to D. As indicated in the accession paperwork:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>”The Pitch Pipe was used in the Parish Church<br>St. Mary’s, Dedham, Essex England to give<br>the choir the key note before there<br>was any organ in that church. And<br>I believe is about 300 years old! it<br>may be even more!<br>It has been retained in the Sherman<br>family all that time.”</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of C. D. Sherman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.373000
label: catalog number
content: 373000
label: accession number
content: 135980
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitch pipe
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 1 7/16 in x 14 in; 4.1275 cm x 3.65125 cm x 35.56 cm