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Tune-change disc

Four patent drawings show a wooden box organette with a hand crank, an internal spindle and reed chambers, and a round perforated paper disc used to select the tune.

AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Ellis Parr · March 15, 1887

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