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Title
Melodeon
Description
It was copyrighted 1862 by George A Prince & Co. Buffalo, N.Y. Rosewood. Small keyboard organ that produces sounds by drawing air through metal reeds by means of a bellow operated by pedals. The melodeon at Cherry Hill has two pedals and two bellows, not all melodeons had a second bellows. The right pedal pumps the bellows and the left serves as a swell pedal. Usually both pedals were pumped at the same time. Melodeons were most popular from 1850-1865. A lap melodeon (pumped by the elbow) was mad in the 1830's. The piano sized melodeon was rare in 1840.
Source
NATIONAL DAR
Publisher
Cherry Hill
Date
Copyright 1862
Language
English
Type
Physical Object