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Symphonium
Symphonium. Mouth blown, button operated free reed instrument. Brass body with gold reeds and ivory button heads. Twenty button arrangement of which only four buttons remain. Front plate is also missing. Each button is stamped with a white note indicator.
- Date:
circa 1835 - Maker:
Wheatstone [Corporation] - Collection:
Horniman Museum and Gardens - Inventory number:
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London (Timezone: Europe/London) - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:412.132 Sets of free reeds
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- Materials:unknown white alloy, ivory, gold, nickel
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:412.132 Sets of free reeds
- Repository:Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Measurements:overall: 1.4961 x 3.2283 x 2.9528 in.; 38 x 82 x 75 mm