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A cutaway perspective drawing of a small piano-shaped case showing a row of keys, a ratcheted roller, gears, and a music-box mechanism housed inside on curved cabriole legs.

APPLICATION OF KEY-BOARD MECHANISM TO MUSIC-BOXESGeorge M. Patten · October 4, 1881

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