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Author Ch. F. Pietschmann & Söhne

Date of creation 1880

Herophon Disc

A square punched cardboard disc for the Herophon, a hand-cranked organette introduced in Germany in the 1880s. Unlike most organettes, the disc stays stationary while the 24-note reed mechanism revolves beneath it, reading the pattern of holes as pre-programmed tunes.

Herophon Disc

Museum of Obsolete Media, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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