Paillard & Cie Orchestra Cylinder Music Box
Paillard & Cie Orchestra Cylinder Music Box
- Description
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This music box was made by Charles Paillard & Cie. in St. Croix, Switzerland, 1885. It is an Orchestra cylinder music box, serial #4830, with 10 tunes. This music box has a two-piece comb with 63 teeth (28 & 35), and 9 bells, a drum with 8 beaters, and a 36 note organ. The cylinder is 21-9/16" long. The music box is activated by 2 crank wound springs. Accessioned with a matching table (disassembled)
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This music box was donated by E. F. Droop & Sons Co., a Washington, DC. piano, organ, musical instrument, sheet music, and music book dealer.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- music box
- music box and table
- date made
- 1885
- maker
- Charles Paillard & Cie.
- place made
- Switzerland
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: music box: 16 1/2 in x 42 in x 25 in; 41.91 cm x 106.68 cm x 63.5 cm
- overall: table top: 1 1/4 in x 27 in x 44 in; 3.175 cm x 68.58 cm x 111.76 cm
- ID Number
- MI.378894
- accession number
- 145956
- catalog number
- 378894
- Credit Line
- Gift of E. F. Droop & Sons Co.
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- Mechanical Musical Instruments
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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