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1880s mechanical musical instrument

Patent drawing of a mechanical musical instrument case with two perforated paper music sheets wound on rollers on either side of a central reed-board, connected to a hand crank, gears, bellows, and reversing levers.

MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTGeorge H. Chinnock · May 6, 1884

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