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Description: | Mélophone, bellows-blown free reed instrument invented in 1837. Body in the shape of a guitar with a short neck and deep ribs. A metal finger board at the neck has 91 ivory keys, arc-shaped in profile, arranged in seven rows. The wooden front face of the body section is a cover with two 'f' sound holes and lines of further sound holes around the edge on the top and side. This conceals a wooden palette plate with round brass palettes, each hinged at the neck end and with two helical springs positioned parallel to the palette plate and in a 'V'-shape to hold it closed. Thin wires attach each of the buttons to a palette. A free reed is positioned beneath each palette, the remainder of the cavity given over to the bellows. A bellows handle (archet) protrudes from the bottom of the instrument. This consists of two metal rods connected at an oblique angle by a turned wooden grip. Purfling around the top and side edges of the body and the lid. The top of the neck by a finial in the form of a small wooden scroll. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | mélophones 412.132-62 Sets of free reeds with flexible air reservoir wood ivory textile copper alloy | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-16847 |
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