This post is off-topic to MMD (I doubt that it's "Mechanical"),
but perhaps some interests overlap.

A few years back I was using a metal detector at an long-abandoned
Kentucky homestead.  That the former residents were musically inclined
I have no doubt, as I unearthed a couple of harmonica plates (no longer
containing reeds -- they had evidently wasted away).

But the puzzler is this: I also unearthed a metal reed plate as
follows: The metal plate measures (in inches) 1-3/4 wide by 2-1/2 tall
by 3/32 thick (describing with the reed rivets at the bottom and the
tongues extending upwards).  The plate contains 4 (broken) reeds, the
left two on front and the other two on back -- the shortest two on the
edges and the longest two near the center.

The openings are 1-1/4, 1-3/4, 1-3/4, 1-1/2 by 3/16 inch reed width.
The reeds are brass, the rivets steel, and the plate non-ferrous metal
(unknown).  There are no visible markings, nor mounting holes, but it's
pitted badly.

My question is simple:  What is (was) it?

Todd Augsburger, Kenton, OH
allmax@bright.net

 [ It could be the beginning of a Kleinbauer Player Organ!  :)
 [ -- Robbie