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              <text>Double reed box single tracker bar&#13;
(incomplete)&#13;
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              <text>Wood, plastic, string, tape, metal, masonite&#13;
&#13;
This ‘reed box’ is designed somewhat like a giant&#13;
mechanically-operated mouth organ. A large strip of&#13;
paper (not present), like a pianola roll with holes cut at&#13;
calculated points, was to be rolled steadily over the&#13;
multi-coloured plastic fins, below which sit an array of&#13;
accordion reeds tuned micro-tonally to approximate the&#13;
effect of gliding tones when adjacent reeds are played.&#13;
The machine was to be operated with a vacuum cleaner&#13;
providing the necessary suction to draw air through the&#13;
holes in the paper roll and then through the reeds.&#13;
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              <text>Percy Aldridge Grainger and Burnett Cross</text>
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              <text>1954</text>
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