A melodeon, a unique musical instrument from the early 1800s, is on display at the Lake County Historical Museum. The melodeon, also known as a reed or American organ, is a small keyboard that looks ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This reed organ was made by Abraham ...

It is a lyre-leg style melodeon, single keyboard, with a compass of C - c3. The instrument arrived in the museum without pedals. The instrument has a printed label: MANUFACTURED BY C. H. PACKARD North ...

Melodeons were popular musical instruments from the 1840s to the late 19th century, among other reasons because of their portability. One foot pedal forced air across brass reeds to produce sounds.

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Via Trad Connect: After a seventeen-year hiatus, Connemara melodeon player Mícheál Darby Ó Fátharta is back on the music scene with a new album, An Rithim Réidh. The title, roughly translated as ‘the ...

A hundred years or more of consumer-level recorded music have moved us to a position in which most of us unconsciously consider music to be a recorded rather than live experience. Over a century ago ...