Hi members,  My friend, the music box builder, has a new item
to build: a "Guitarophone".

He had seen an example dated as the Menzenhauer Guitar Zither nr 2 1/2,
patented 29th May 1894.  Menzenhauer by Oscar Schmidt American Guitar
Zither.  The notation: U.S. Company Oscar Schmidt patented nbr's
147,341 and 147,342.

He wants to know more about this guitar.  A zither built into this
guitar, he will buy today in Delft (The Netherlands).  But the
playing-mechanism is not known to him; he has to build his own.

Who can help him with a drawing, picture or something else?

   On behalf of my friend, Piet Leemans from Leiden,

Gerard Arkenbout from Leidschendam (Holland)


 [ Editor's note:
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 [ See the Chordphone replicas which Mr. Leemans built at
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 [     http://mmd.foxtail.com/pub/mechanical-music/misc/Chordephon
 [
 [ Gerard helped with the player mechanism, I believe.  They built
 [ a beautiful pair of disc-operated player zithers which can be
 [ synchronized for greater volume, or operated separately.
 [
 [ -- Robbie