photoplayer
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thumb|Ben Turpin and a type of photoplayer instrument, June–August 1922
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thumb|Ben Turpin and a type of photoplayer instrument, June–August 1922
The photoplayer is an automatic mechanical orchestra used by movie theatres to produce photoplay music to accompany silent films.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “photoplayer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.