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Electromagnetic musical instrument

Patent drawing showing a rectangular music-board with rows of holes and movable type sliding beneath a keyboard of curved elastic levers connected by wires to electromagnets, with a side sectional view showing the type pins and lever mechanism.

IMPROVEMENT IN ELECTRO-MAGNETIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTSLorenzo Wesson · April 4, 1865

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