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Flexatone.
Technical description: Flexible steel blade in metal frame sounded by shaking so that wooden balls strike the blade; pitch of note controlled by flexing the blade. Wire frame/handle has wooden clamp at the wide end to secure the spring metal blade. Striker balls are mounted on thin spring steel strip secured to the blade. Balls are wooden with inserts - possibly of leather - to strike the blade.
- Date:
Second quarter of the 20th century - Maker:
Playatone Co - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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New York/United States of America - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:154 Metal sheet shaken and indirectly struck
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:154 Metal sheet shaken and indirectly struck
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:325
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17516