Diacarl:
 
At Newtonia we recovered four types of 'Personal Musical
Instruments':
1)    Brass harmonica scales;  complete ones measure about 1" by 4",
with about ten little brass reeds.  We found one complete and a dozen or
more broken pieces.
2)    White metal harmonica scales;  a few broken pieces,  slightly smaller
than the brass type, much thinner and the metal (some zinc/pewter type
alloy?) is more corroded, with the same thin reeds as the brass type.
3)    Heavy lead 2-slot scales, real heavy, about 1 1/4" high by 1" long or
wide by about 1/8" thick. These are complete (not broken) 2-slot scales
and have the same thin reeds.  I've never seen these before.  I suppose
they are for a real short harmonica????
4)    Jew's Harp scales, found eight,  measuring 1 1/4" to 3" long by
about 3/8" wide (longer ones are a little wider),  with a thin reed almost
full length of the piece.  These are complete in themselves, but of course
they would have been inserted in the iron or steel harp frame.  This is
what is called the 'steel tongue' in the Websters New Universal
Dictionary.  With so many sizes, I wonder if they could be easily taken
out and interchanged.
 
Jim Moore