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Leaf-Turner.

Description: Patent for a new and improved leaf turner which allows the piano player to turn the pages of their sheet music without taking their hands off the keyboard. This leaf turner is "noiseless and efficient in operation and...will respond instantly to the actuating impulse" (lines 21-23). It is not expensive to make, and securely holds music and releases it without effort.
Date: January 11, 1921
Creator: Holcom, Jarret C.
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Music-Leaf Turner.

Description: Patent for "...an improvement in music-leaf turners...by which the leaves may be readily turned from side to side as desired..." (lines 9-12) including illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1902
Creator: Dascomb, Charles Henry
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Music-Indicator.

Description: Patent for a music indicator, which shows sheet music notations and the name of the note and major and minor chords on a device, which is placed over the keyboard of a piano to show where the different notes are for use in teaching music.
Date: January 21, 1908
Creator: Thrash, William E.
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Music Holder and Turner.

Description: Patent for a devise that turns the leaves of books or music books, which "may be supported upon the music-rack of a piano, organ, or similar instrument." (lines 13-14)
Date: November 11, 1902
Creator: Black, John F.
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Music-Leaf Turner.

Description: Patent for an automatic page turner for an organ or piano. The pages can be turned right or left, and the mechanism is operated using foot pressure.
Date: February 27, 1894
Creator: Stinson, James C.
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Music-Holder.

Description: Patent for an adjustable, simple, inexpensive, and light music-holder that does not let the music slip and does not damage the music. The clamps will not get in the way of the music, and holds a book as easily as a sheet of music. Springs are not used, the staff is telescopic, and should be made from aluminum.
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Gross, Frederick D.
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Sound-Producing Maching

Description: Patent for "sound producing instruments and sound imitators and comprises an assemble of a plurality of sound producing instruments all unified through a central control for us in connection with theaters and particularly moving pictures."
Date: September 10, 1918
Creator: Illo, Frank
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Reed-Organ.

Description: Patent for a cheap and simple reed-board that provides a uniform tone that is produced through the register or registers and allows the freedom of communication between the reed-cells and pipe or resonance cells.
Date: January 30, 1906
Creator: Preston, Percy C.
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Reed-Organ.

Description: Patent for "a removable attachment for a reed organ or harmonium, to be placed upon the wind chest either the tremble or bass end of the keyboard, or at both ends..." (lines 8-12) including illustrations and instructions.
Date: December 30, 1913
Creator: Rue, Oliver H.
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Needle for Graphophones and the Like.

Description: Patent for a gramophone needle that produces better sound due to allowing for vibrations and can be used longer by producing a a sharpened point on one side while playing that can be used the next time by turning over the needle.
Date: April 9, 1907
Creator: Petmecky, Fred
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Piano-Action

Description: Patent for a "piano-action," which is used to control the rebound of the hammer and also includes a back stop, back check, bridle check and other supporting members.
Date: April 13, 1915
Creator: Mayor, Enoch A.
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Device for Teaching Music

Description: Patent for a music education device aimed toward children and basic music building blocks. It is designed to teach the positions of piano keyboard notes through the use of differently dressed and named puppets. These puppets can be adjusted to also introduce basic musical concepts like rests, rhythm, and time.
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: Maxwell, Annie L.
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Player Piano

Description: Patent for a new form of valve for mechanical piano operated by pneumatic mechanisms in which the value is self-centering and does away with the guide pin usually employed, and an amplification of the wippen so that the striker rod is placed at the front of the pneumatic mechanism where it is accessible. The change in leverage permits the use of a smaller pneumatic.
Date: January 31, 1922
Creator: Pace, Vara L.
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Cabinet

Description: Patent for a phonograph cabinet which has specialized storage for records with a built in cataloging and record finding system composed of letters running horizontally across the cabinet and numbers on a sliding strip which when put together with a letter will indicate the position of the record.
Date: March 23, 1909
Creator: Keltz, Eugene
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Bell-Holder

Description: Patent for a bell holder that attaches to the neck of an animal, prevents loss of the bell, and is easy to use and cheap.
Date: December 9, 1919
Creator: Pappas, Peter G.
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