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Metallic sheet

Cross-sectional patent drawing of a music box showing an upright comb of tuned teeth, a pivoted picker-disk and lever mechanism, and a perforated metal sheet traveling along a bed plate driven by a pinion gear, with two additional perspective views of the sheet's projection pattern below.

MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.George B. Hakins · April 14, 1885

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