Mellophone and case by Brown & Cleric, France
Object No. H7202
Mellophone and case, wood / metal, made by Brown & Cleric, Paris,France, c. 1840
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Summary
Physical Description
Melophone with 84 keys that are connected by fine wires to circular brass-leather stops. Operated by pumping double bellows. Finely finished in blonde fiddle-back pine & burr pine.
PRODUCTION
Notes
Original design possibly by a clock maker, Lecler of Paris and invented about 1837 according to Sibyl Marcuse in A Survey of Musical Instruments (David & Charles, London, 1975, p.743)
SOURCE
Credit Line
Purchased 1963
Acquisition Date
25 January 1963
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