Object Details
- Description (Brief)
This music strip was made by an unknown maker in the United States, around 1880-1890. It is a music strip (5 ¼ feet long) - "Money Musk.” This strip can be played in 14-note organettes.
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
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1880-1890
- Credit Line
- Gift of May Flewellen McMillan, Ph.D., in memory of Charles Edward McMillan and Eugene Charlton McMillan, Jr., M.D.
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: rolled: 9 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 6.35 cm
- Object Name
- music strip
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