The Talking Machine Patent Archive

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Player organ

Patent drawing of an upright organ or piano with an overhead frame holding a paper music-chart between two rollers, gears, and rows of pivoted false keys positioned above the instrument's keyboard.IMPROVEMENT IN SELF-PLAYING ATTACHMENTS FOR KEY-BOARD INSTRUMENTS.Edward Forbes O'Neill · May 6, 1879Patent 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 of a rectangular case fitted over a piano or organ keyboard, showing internal rollers, a crank wheel, a perforated metal sheet feeding through gears, and rows of pins aligned with keys.AUTOMATIC ORGAN-PLAYER.John August Brodin · July 31, 1894Patent drawing showing a player-organ mechanism with a tracker-board, rows of pneumatic bellows, exhaust chests, wind ducts, and electromagnetic switch contacts connecting to organ pipes.PNEUMATICALLY-ACTUATED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTEdwin S. Votey · March 6, 1906