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Symphonium - Image 4
c. 1829
National Music Museum, University of South Dakota
Vermillion, United States
View of the interior of the symphonium (seen from the bottom). When depressed, eleven of the twelve ivory buttons open a valve that activates a nickel-silver reed inside the body. The twelfth button opens a valve on the outside of the body, to the player's left.
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- Title: Symphonium - Image 4
- Creator: Charles W. Wheatstone (1802-1875)
- Date Created: c. 1829
- Location Created: London, England
- Type: free reed musical instrument
- Rights: © National Music Museum
- Photo Credit: Bill Willroth, Sr.
- Credit: Acquisition Funding Gift of Alan G. Bates, 2005
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