Apollo Lyre
1848–53
American
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 681

"This instrument, the only known example of its kind, was probably inspired by the melophone, which a French player presented in a concert in New York in 1841. The upward-pointing handles produce pressure and suction to sound a diatonic scale, as in an accordion or harmonica."
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/502678