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Endless belt cam knobs

Patent drawing showing a rectangular wooden frame with inclined side standards holding two parallel rollers wrapped in an endless knobbed belt, a hand crank and pulley system on one end, and a row of spring tappet-levers beneath the rollers aligned over piano keys.

KEY-BOARD ATTACHMENT FOR PIANOSCasper De Vilbiss · August 12, 1890

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