Melodeon
Credit LineCollection of Museum London, 2024
Object number2024.001.006
Label TextThis is a portable or lyre-leg melodeon. Melodeons are a type of pump organ and are much smaller than traditional, full-sized organs. They operate by generating sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of metal, called a reed, in a frame.
NameMelodeon
c. 1870
1892
c. 1950
