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Star-wheel damper

Patent drawing showing a spring-metal damper arm pressing against a toothed star-wheel that vibrates a metal music-tongue, with several detail views of the forked damper blank and its bent damping-finger.

DAMPING DEVICE FOR MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.Friedrich Adolf Richter · April 20, 1897

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