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Patent drawing showing two long perforated paper music sheets with numbered rows of rectangular holes labeled 1 through 14 and a section view of a reed-board with a row of U-shaped reed chambers and reeds labeled c, d, f, and g.

MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.William A. Webber · July 18, 1882

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