Outer case with painted decoration by Diego Díaz y Valle, Cascante, 1772. Psaltery (salterio) by Salvador Bofill, Barcelona, 1760. Plucked lamellaphone (thumb piano), Botswana, ca. Gift of Sarah Wood-Clark, Kansas City, Missouri. Melodeon by Bernard Shoninger and Company, Woodbridge, Connecticut, ca. Grow and the Hammond Organ Co., 1969-1972. Accompanied by technical schematics, owner's manual, music, and correspondence between Rev. Grow in various parsonages in South Dakota and Nebraska during the 1950s and 1960s. Solovox keyboard and tone cabinet by Hammond Instrument Co., Chicago, ca. Gift of Rawson and Arlene Pinkerton and Family, Quimby, Iowa.
Delivered by train and wagon to the family farmhouse in Quimby, Iowa, where it remained until coming to the NMM, this player piano filled family events with music and provided accompaniment for dancing. Purchased by Perry Fulton Pinkerton for his wife, Isadora, in 1918. Three pedals: half blow, "melo-harp" (tabs with staples for a jarring, "honky-tonk" tone), dampers. Upright piano with player mechanism (Hammond Melo-Harp) by the Straube Co., Hammond, Indiana, ca. Practice keyboard by Pratt, Read & Co., Inc., Ivoryton, Connecticut, ca. DeWayne & Theo Rayburn Wee, Northfield, Minnesota. Practice keyboard by The Virgil Piano School Company, Bergenfield, New Jersey and New York City, ca. (a division of Allen Organ Co., Macungie, Pennsylvania), Rocky Mount, North Carolina, ca. Electra-piano and harpsichord by Rocky Mount Instruments, Inc. Transfer from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. Gift of Loretta Loop Smith, Pebble Beach, California. Square piano by William Knabe and Co., Baltimore, ca. Gift of Richard Peterson and his sister, Patricia, in memory of their parents Chester and Inez Peterson, Gayville, South Dakota. Two 44-note manuals, 13-note pedal clavier. Electric organ by Gulbransen (a division of CBS Musical Instruments), Deerfield, Illinois, ca. Purchase funds from the William Selz Estate, Mr. Single manual, C/E-c 3 (4 octaves), originally 1 × 8' (altered to 2 × 8' in the 17th or 18th c.). Gift of Michael Walters, Laguna Woods, California. Kit also includes original box two, 78-RPM sound recordings a lesson book a "harmonica holster" to wear on a belt a "Herb Shriner's Harmonica Club" membership card autographed on the back by Shriner and, a Herb Shriner Club pin.
Included in the kit, Herb Shriner's TV Harmonica Jamboree, sold by Astranaut, Inc., New York, ca. Diatonic harmonica in C by Hohner, Trossingen, Germany, ca. Gift of Leo Coulson, Intermountain Guitar & Banjo, Salt Lake City. Winrow & Son, Nottingham, England and Broadbent Dry Goods, Lehi City, Utah. Diatonic accordion attributed to Busson, Paris, ca. Gift of Craig Anderson, Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Trombone slide by Frank Holton & Co., Chicago, ca. Trumpet mute attributed to Austria, 20th century.īA-99. Trumpet mute attributed to Austria, late 18th century.īA-98. Gift of Carol Lee Cole, Annawan, Illinois.īA-97. Trombone by Frank Holton & Company, Elkhorn, 1929. Reconstruction of basse des cornets (bass cornetto) described by Marin Mersenne in Harmonie Universelle (Paris: 1636). Bass cornetto by Roland Wilson, Cologne, April 2010. Stewart (1953-2009) by Darcy Kuronen, Boston. Trombone (LP) by Frank Holton & Co., Chicago, ca. Trumpet in B-flat/A (LP) by Frank Holton & Co., Elkhorn, ca.
Euphonium in B-flat (LP) by Frank Holton & Co., Elkhorn, ca. Mellophone by Frank Holton & Co., Elkhorn, Wisconsin, ca. Gift of Doug Lind, Rapid City, South Dakota. Lind and later to Doug Lind, both of whom played it in the Vermillion High School Band. Roland Lind in the original Dalesburg (South Dakota) Community Band, ca. Silverplated with gold-plated bell interior. André and Kay Marcum Larson Acquisitions Fund. Silverplate with gold-plated bell interior. Gift of Carol Lee Cole, Annawan, Illinois. Violoncello bow, possibly made in Vogtland, Saxony Egerland, Czechoslovakia or Mirecourt, France, ca. Violin and bow by Masakichi Suzuki, Nagoya, Japan, ca. Hardingfele by Knudt Eriksen Helland, Bø, Telemark, Norway, 1873. Violin bow by Leon Glasser, Bronx, New York, ca. Gift of Claire Givens and Andrew Dipper, Minneapolis. Saw duang (two-string fiddle), Thailand, ca. Ex coll.: Erich Lachmann Collection, UCLA. Purchase funds gift of Kevin Schieffer, Sioux Falls. Bukolt, Stevens Point, Wisconsin The Copernicus Cultural Foundation, Chicago. Ex colls.: King Henry IV, France François de Bassompierre and family, France King Louis XVIII, France Jean-Baptiste Cartier, Paris George Hart, London Royal de Forest Hawley, Hartford, Connecticut Albert Hastings Pitkin, Hartford Lyon & Healy, Chicago Edmund V. Violin, The King Henry IV, by Antonio and Girolamo Amati, Cremona, ca. At the National Music Museum July 1, 2009-JBowed Stringed Instruments