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Mechanical musical instrument

Patent drawing showing the open wooden case of a mechanical musical instrument with paper-roll mechanism, geared rollers, and a sectional diagram of the pneumatic key and duct system with a large paper roll H.Mechanical Musical-Instrument.Merritt Gally · May 7, 1878Technical patent drawing showing a complex pneumatic player-piano mechanism with labeled keys, ducts, a large flywheel, crank handle, and perforated music-sheet chamber, alongside smaller detail figures of valve components.IMPROVEMENT IN MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTSMerritt Gally · November 26, 1878Patent drawing of a wooden orguinette-style mechanical organ mounted on a stand, showing two large paper-strip rollers at either end, a central reed box labeled with mechanism letters, a hand crank, and internal cross-section views of the bellows and shaft linkages.IMPROVEMENT IN MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.George B. Kelly and Mason J. Matthews · July 22, 1879Patent drawing showing a plan view and cross-section of a mechanical reed organ with a perforated paper music-sheet running over rollers, a dome-shaped reed-board chamber, and bellows connected by cranks and pitmen.Mechanical Musical InstrumentMason J. Matthews · February 22, 1881A cutaway perspective drawing of a small piano-shaped case showing a row of keys, a ratcheted roller, gears, and a music-box mechanism housed inside on curved cabriole legs.APPLICATION OF KEY-BOARD MECHANISM TO MUSIC-BOXESGeorge M. Patten · October 4, 1881Patent drawing of a cabinet-style mechanical reed organ showing internal rollers, a driving shaft with crank, bellows, and a wind-chest with valve mechanisms in cross-section and plan views.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Andrew H. Hammond · March 7, 1882Patent drawing showing a cutaway mechanical musical instrument with a bellows, wind-chest, perforated music sheet feeding between rollers, and rows of organ pipes mounted above a movable sound-board.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTHenry S. Taylor · June 6, 1882Patent drawing of a wooden cabinet mechanical musical instrument showing a cross-section with bellows, reed cells, feed rollers, and a hinged air-chamber above a perforated music sheet rest, plus a plan view and an exploded perspective view of the same components.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Edwin H. Brown · June 5, 1883Patent drawing of a mechanical harmonica with a hand-crank, geared rollers feeding a perforated paper band across a row of reed cells, plus detail views of the connecting card ends and a large disc-shaped roller assembly.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Otto Zabekow · December 25, 1883Patent drawing showing a hand-cranked mechanical musical instrument with a circular reed holder and handle in Fig. 1, its cross-section in Fig. 1A, and a rectangular two-row reed variant with scroll-decorated chest in Figs. 2 and 2A.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTMarshall Arthur Wier · October 27, 1885Patent 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, 1885Patent drawing of a cabinet-style mechanical organ showing internal bellows, reed board, driving shaft with cranks, and paper music-sheet rollers, with a hinged cover above.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.J. Herbert Chase · May 24, 1887Patent drawing of a mechanical musical instrument showing a boxed frame with a perforated music-sheet stretched between two rollers, side gear wheels, a hand crank, and pivoted levers used to lift the take-up roller and stop the sheet's motion.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.James E. Treat · September 6, 1887Patent drawing of a mechanical musical instrument showing a box with a perforated paper roll fed over rows of spring-loaded hammers that strike tuned metal tongues, with cross-section and detail views of the hammer and damper mechanism in various positions.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Theodor Zöllner · April 4, 1893Patent 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, 1895Technical patent drawing showing a mechanical music player's feed wheels, perforated music sheet with driving holes, fly-wheel governor mechanism, and a cabinet console housing the instrument.AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Adolf Richter · May 19, 1896Patent drawing showing a spring-metal damper arm pressing against a toothed star-wheel that vibrates a metal music-tongue, with several detail views of the forked damper blank and its bent damping-finger.DAMPING DEVICE FOR MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.Friedrich Adolf Richter · April 20, 1897Patent drawing of a rectangular musical instrument case showing rows of tuned strings, a pinned rotating cylinder, gear train, hammer-carriage with individual hammers, and a hand crank winding lever, all mounted on a wooden base-block.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Louis Stocker · September 28, 1897