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Belt-shifter

Cutaway perspective drawing of a piano corner exposing internal gears, pulleys, belts, a motor, and an electric switch mechanism beneath the keyboard and leg.

ELECTRIC PIANOGeorge Schrade and Harold W. Shonnard · May 2, 1899

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