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Player mechanism

Mechanical drawing of a Victorian musical instrument mechanism showing a plan view of an air chest with rows of pivoted finger-levers, valves, and rails (Fig. 1), and below it a side sectional view (Fig. 2) showing a perforated paper strip looping around two drum rollers connected by a belt-driven pulley system, with a diaphragm chamber and key linkage.IMPROVEMENT IN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.George W. Van Dusen · December 10, 1867Patent 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, 1878Patent drawing showing four figures of a mechanical reed and pipe organ mechanism, including a wind-chest with a perforated paper roll traveling over an action-board with air passages leading to reeds and pipes, plus a plan view of the roll compartment with hinged lid and screws.IMPROVEMENT IN MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.Elias P. Needham · March 18, 1879Patent drawing showing a mechanical reed organ with a treadle-driven fly-wheel shaft, bellows and wind-chest, and a perforated paper music-sheet passing over an action board between a music-roller and take-up roller, with detailed side and sectional views of the internal gearing and pawl mechanism.Mechanical Musical Instrument.Elias P. Needham · November 4, 1879Patent drawing showing a piano's internal mechanism including key-levers, hammers, dampers, a large pin-barrel cylinder N with crank y, wind-chest H, small piston cylinders K, and connecting rods and levers labeled B through R, with inset figures 2 and 3 detailing the cylinder and piston arrangement.MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTCesare Donadoni · January 6, 1885Cross-sectional mechanical drawing of an automatic banjo-playing device showing a circular banjo head surrounded by valve casings, tubing, pickers, and fret-actuating fingers connected to pneumatic bellows.AUTOMATIC STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTFrederich W. Wood and Edward H. Stiles, Jr. · June 17, 1902