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False keys

Patent drawing of an upright organ or piano with an overhead frame holding a paper music-chart between two rollers, gears, and rows of pivoted false keys positioned above the instrument's keyboard.

IMPROVEMENT IN SELF-PLAYING ATTACHMENTS FOR KEY-BOARD INSTRUMENTS.Edward Forbes O'Neill · May 6, 1879

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