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John McTammany, Mechanical Music Pioneer
By Anita Zimcosky 

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I am a descendent of John McTammany.  I currently have two of his books
autographed to his nephew, John McTammany of Akron, Ohio.  We are also
in possession of his letters to my great-grandfather.  Just thought
you might want to know.

Anita Zimcosky
Stow, Ohio
anita@fwonline.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

 [ John McTammany was granted a patent on the Encore Automatic Banjo
 [ (U.S. patent 705,952), privately published a book, "History of the
 [ Player", and later developed a punched-card voting machine.
 [ -- Robbie

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