Object Details
- Description
This music strip was made by Autophone Comapny in Ithaca, New York, about 1878. It is Autophone strip #126 - "Ah! So Pure" from Martha. This strip can be played in 22-key model autophones.
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
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1878
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. C. R. Gutermuth
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 24 1/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 61.595 cm x 13.335 cm
- Object Name
- music strip
