"Nearer My Home"
"Nearer My Home"
- Description
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This music strip was made by Autophone Comapny in Ithaca, New York, about 1878. It is Autophone strip #4 - "Nearer My Home." This strip can be played in 22-key model autophones.
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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
- Object Name
- music strip
- date made
- ca 1878
- place made
- United States: New York, Ithaca
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22 in x 5 1/4 in; 55.88 cm x 13.335 cm
- ID Number
- MI.68.13.02
- accession number
- 277816
- catalog number
- 68.13.02
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. C. R. Gutermuth
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Mechanical Musical Instruments
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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