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Plain-chant automaton

A multi-view mechanical patent drawing showing a wooden case with levers, rods, and a perforated paper card threading through a keyboard-actuating mechanism mounted atop an organ's keys.

MECHANISM FOR ACTUATING KEYBOARDS BY MEANS OF PERFORATED CARDSClaude Gavioli · December 25, 1894

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