Patent Model - Melodeon
Maker and role
Gideon Spence, Patentee
Production date
Dec 23 1856
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood, leather, brass
Measurements
9 3/4 x 12 x 7 1/2" (24.8 x 30.5 x 19.1cm)
Description
Spence wrote in his patent: "It is well known that a great deficiency has heretofore existed in the melodeon, in its incapacity to admit of the performer producing a competent diminuendo at pleasure, or as the music may require. My improvement is designed to obviate this objection, by placing the instrument completely under the control of the performer." (Patent Number 16,296)
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Object number
2015.14.183a,b
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