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Patent drawing of a trumpet-shaped mechanical musical instrument with internal reed scale-plate, rotating air tube, and perforated paper tune drum, shown in six labeled cross-sectional and end views.

MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Marshall Arthur Wier · October 27, 1885

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