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German patent music box

Patent drawing of a mechanical musical instrument showing a comb-and-pin-wheel mechanism, a rotary disk carrying a perforated music sheet with concentric slot tracks, a cam and spring-loaded sliding block for shifting the sheet's center, and a spur wheel and shaft assembly for rotating the sheet.

MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Max Hauschild · January 1, 1895

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