organ pipe section
Date: circa 1850
Inventory Number: 2000-1-0050
Classification: Organ Pipe
Subject:
Maker: Albert Marloye (1795 - 1874)
Cultural Region:
Place of Origin:
Dimensions:
18.4 x 6.2 x 2.8 cm (7 1/4 x 2 7/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Description:
Lowermost section of a wooden organ pipe, presumably used with a sliding wood section to control air flow. Most likely used to demonstrate the way in which an organ pipe produces sound.
There is an old location number stamped on the device: 22-36.
There is an old location number stamped on the device: 22-36.
Signedon front: MARLOYE ET CIE / A PARIS
Primary SourcesAlbert Marloye, Catalogue des principaux appareils d'acoustique et autres objets qui se fabriquent chez Marloye à Paris, rue Saint-Jacques, 161 et rue des Fossés-Saint-Jacques, 1, 3rd ed. (Paris: Impr. de Bonaventure et Ducessois, 1851).