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Pawl-and-ratchet winding

Patent drawing of a McTammany automatic reed organ showing the internal gearing, bellows treadles, winding rolls, and a perforated music-sheet feeding over a reed-board inside a wooden case.

MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.John McTammany · July 7, 1885

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