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American automatic organ company

Patent drawing of a mechanical organ showing a cabinet with bellows, a hinged reed-block with air chambers, and feed rollers guiding a perforated paper strip.

Mechanical Musical Instrument.Oliver H. Arno · June 14, 1881

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