Rocking Melodeon 1825

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"Rocking Melodeon" is a wooden, hand-pumped musical instrument created by Abraham Prescott in 1825. The instrument features a bellows and a set of ivory keys, the precursor to the modern accordion. It is currently housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This instrument represents an early form of the free-reed aerophone, a family of instruments which create sound by vibrating reeds within a resonating chamber. The "Rocking Melodeon" is a historically significant piece of musical history, and a testament to the ingenuity of its creator.