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Cross-sectional mechanical drawing of an automatic banjo-playing device showing a circular banjo head surrounded by valve casings, tubing, pickers, and fret-actuating fingers connected to pneumatic bellows.

AUTOMATIC STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTFrederich W. Wood and Edward H. Stiles, Jr. · June 17, 1902

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