The Craft of Musical Instruments

Other Notes: Combination valve and slide model.

- Materials: Maple, Brass - Notes: Melophones are mechanically similar to accordions, categorized as a free reed instrument and uses double-bellows. The player pushes and pulls the lever at the bottom, and uses the buttons along the fingerboard for individual and simultaneous notes.

- Materials: Back/Sides: Maple • Top: Pine - Length: 62 cm - Strings: 3 [gut]

- Materials: Leather, ebony, oak, ivory, brass - Other Notes: A type of bagpipes that use a bellows rather than a mouthpiece.

- Materials: Silver, vellum - Weight: 13.8 kg - Other Notes: Commissioned by William IV of Great Britain. 

- Materials: Mahogany, Glass - Height: 81 cm

- Materials: Apricot wood - Length: 29 cm - Other Notes: Oboe

- Materials: Wood, Iron - Length: 36 cm - Range: 33 nails - Other Notes: “Played with a box” that is missing. Patterned after piano keys, naturals are straight nails and sharps/flats are bent.

- Materials: Body: Walnut • Parts: Brass - Length: 133.1 cm [without bocal] - Other Notes: In C

- Materials: Bamboo - Length: 64.8 cm - Other Notes: Nose flute

- Materials: Body: Maple/Spruce • Fingerboard/Parts: Ivory • Keys: Mother-of-pearl - Length: 69.5 cm - Strings: 12 - 2 single, 2 double, 2 triple courses - Other Notes: The key actions are inside the body, hammers hitting the strings through holes in the ivory rosette.

- Materials: Unlisted - Length: 96 cm - Strings: 20 - 5 double courses each [gut] - Other Notes: Don’t play me or my son ever again

- Materials: Unlisted - Length: 121 cm - Other Notes: Portable harp/piano hybrid. 

- Materials: Wood - Length: 54.6 cm -Other Notes: Xylophone

Source: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wein

Source: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Source: NY-MetMA