Autophone

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The Autophone was an early type of organette, invented in 1878 by Henry Bishop Horton.{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/504965|title=Autophone {{!}} "Autophone" Organette {{!}} American {{!}} The Met|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum|date=1878 |access-date=2017-11-30}} One of the first table-top organettes to be mass-produced, it played music using punched cards to activate 22 reeds.{{cite book|title=A Checklist of American Musical Instruments|date=1989|publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|location=New York|page=8}}

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See also

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