Leabarjan Music Roll Perforator: Museum Object and Cultural History
Leabarjan Music Roll Perforator: date made: after 1911. maker: Leabarjan Manufacturing Company. Object Name: music roll perforator.
The object in the museum catalogue
This music roll perforator was made by Leabarjan Mfg. Co., Hamilton, Ohio, after 1911. It is a hand- operated perforator for making 65 or 88 note piano rolls.
This perforator features U.S. Patent number Pat.1005562, dated October 10, 1911 issued to John Curtis Lease for a music roll punch.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: after 1911
- maker: Leabarjan Manufacturing Company
- Object Name: music roll perforator
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: wood (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: largest part: 14 in x 16 1/2 in x 21 1/4 in; 35.56 cm x 41.91 cm x 53.975 cm
- Measurements: overall: smallest part: 1/4 in x 3/4 in; .635 cm x 1.905 cm
- place made: United States: Ohio, Hamilton
- ID Number: MI.391893
- accession number: 194656
- catalog number: 391893
- patent number: 1005562
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Carroll W. Hughes and Mrs. Guy W. Starling
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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