"My Grandfather's Clock"
"My Grandfather's Clock"
- Description (Brief)
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This music strip was made by an unknown maker in the United States, around 1880-1890. It is a music strip (6 feet long) - "My Grandfather’s Clock,” by Henry Clay Work. This strip can be played in 14-note organettes.
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As indicated in an 1885 Catalog of Music for the Orguinette, the price of music was 4 cents per foot. The length of the music strip indicated above, is from the catalog.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- music strip
- date made
- 1880-1890
- place made
- United States
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: rolled: 9 3/4 in x 3 in; 24.765 cm x 7.62 cm
- ID Number
- 1991.0132.10
- accession number
- 1991.0132
- catalog number
- 1991.0132.10
- Credit Line
- Gift of May Flewellen McMillan, Ph.D., in memory of Charles Edward McMillan and Eugene Charlton McMillan, Jr., M.D.
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- Mechanical Musical Instruments
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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