Pitch Pipe

Unknown

19th century · Cherry?, cork · Musical Instruments

Rectangular wooden box in the shape of a small leather-bound book. It is open at one small end where it is fitted with an open-centered, corktipped, rectangular plunger, graduated diatonically by pitch letters with scratched-in marks for recalibrating the pitch.

Artist

Unknown

Date

19th century

Medium

Cherry?, cork

Culture

American

Department

Musical Instruments

Credit line

The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889