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Ninth Century Mechanical Music
By Fritz Gellerman 

The first documented mechanical musical instrument dates to the ninth
century in Baghdad, where the Banu Musa (sons of Musa) made a
cylinder-operated organ.  See "The Organ of the Ancients," by Henry
George Farmer, London, 1931.

Fritz Gellerman

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