Object Details
- Description
This music strip was made by Autophone Comapny in Ithaca, New York, about 1878. It is Autophone strip #101 - "Auld Lang Syne." This strip can be played in 22-key model autophones.
This instrument features U. S. Patent #211821, dated December 3, 1878, by Henry B. Horton, for improvements in mechanical musical instruments that play perforated paper strips. In the patent description the inventor uses the term “autophone” to describe the instrument.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. C. R. Gutermuth
- ca 1878
- ID Number
- MI.68.13.10
- accession number
- 277816
- catalog number
- 68.13.10
- Object Name
- music strip
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 16 1/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 41.275 cm x 13.335 cm
- place made
- United States: New York, Ithaca
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Mechanical Musical Instruments
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_609159
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-79aa-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
