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Mech. Music Terms: Keyframe Pressure Device
By Hans van Oost

Dear fellow mechanical music lovers,  All mechanical musical
instruments have some kind of key frame.  In those controlled by
negative air pressure this key frame has only one side: the tracker
bar.  In all keyed instruments, and the keyless types working on
positive air pressure, the key frame has a device which presses the
music sheet onto the surface of the key frame in order to prevent
the music sheet from rising.

My question: How is such a device called in several languages?
For the Dutch language I can only think of the term "hemeltje"
(little heaven, because it is on top).

Hans van Oost, Netherlands

 [ Ref.: http://www.onlinewoerterbuecher.de/entry_12400.html
 [       http://www.onlinewoerterbuecher.de/entry_12500.html
 [   Drückblech {n}	pressure sheet
 [   Druckrolle {f}	thrust roller [pressure roller]
 [   Druckstange {f}	pressure rod
 [   Druckscheibe {f}	pressure disc
 [ -- Robbie



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