The music typewriter was created (in a first 14-key version) in 1936 by Robert H. Keaton, in San Francisco, California, and later on in another 36-key version patented in 1953 (in the image below).
The operation is similar to traditional typewriter, where a mechanism prints a spelling, in this case musical notes on paper. Apparently, it began to be marketed in the 50s at a price of around $225 and were mainly acquired by the music chairs of schools and small publishers dedicated to the publication of scores (although for reasons of tradition and due to its complicated operation was rejected by most musicians of the time who preferred manual writing), however there are still a few of these machines distributed by various museums and private collections.
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