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-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: 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.
Keyed cittern, ca. 1798 Longman & Broderip (London, England)
-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: Body: Tortoise shell • Parts: Ivory -Strings: 4 [gut] -Other Notes: This violin, that likely shouldn’t ethically exist, was crafted purely as a means to show off artistry - not for playing. All parts of the violin and bow, aside from the body, strings, and bowhair, are made from ivory. The purfling is of gold wire.
Glasglockenklavier, ca. pre-1596 Anonymous (Austria)
-Materials: Body: Softwoods • Keys: Beech, ebonised Hardwood -Length: 96 cm -Range: ~3 octaves -Other Notes: Found in the estate of Archduke Ferdinand II, whose crest is displayed. Translating to ‘glass bell piano’, the sound was produced by small glass bowls struck by felt-tipped bobbins. None of the glass pieces survive today.
![Fiddle, ca. 1700sGermany- Materials: Back/Sides: Maple • Top: Pine- Length: 62 cm- Strings: 3 [gut]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/a20ed87267504df19dd82439311ffd8b/bcd4d60aa28ab05b-31/s1280x1920/a5e4773d4b78561b3599b26a22d18266b3c15f6d.jpg "Fiddle, ca. 1700sGermany- Materials: Back/Sides: Maple • Top: Pine- Length: 62 cm- Strings: 3 [gut]")
