Wind powered music machine

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1992-10-01

1994-08-02

Gellner, Michael L.

Music

Instruments

Automatic

84 86, G10F 106

Patent

active

053347978

ABSTRACT:
A wind driven music machine for the reproduction of a variety of musical compositions including a vertically positioned frame supported for pivotal movement about a vertical axis. The frame includes a plurality of tuned chime tubes vertically suspended top and bottom therein. A propeller is rotatably mounted on the frame and drives a hollow cylindrical drum about a horizontal axis. As the cylindrical drum rotates, a plurality of interchangeable pegs mounted thereon, engage, depress and release a plurality of corresponding pivotal hammers for striking the correct chime tubes in the correct sequence to produce a desired song. A wind vane is mounted on the frame to direct the propeller continuously into the prevailing wind.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1881299 (1931-06-01), Savidge
patent: 3651731 (1972-03-01), Horta
patent: 4872387 (1989-10-01), Melia

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