An electrically powered, hand played music box comprising:
- musical tone producing means including, 88 reed and plectrum shuttle mechanism assemblies, each assembly having a reed, a plectrum carrying shuttle body, and two electromagnets, each said electromagnet having a directionally opposite attracting effect on said shuttle body;
- means for accessing chromatic assembly tone circuits in groups of 29,
- said means comprising, an 88 chromatic assembly tone circuit plate having 88 electrical contacts, and a track supported slideable body having a leaf with 29 tone circuit electrical contacts;
- a stationary plate having 29 tone circuit contacts for connecting said 29 accessed circuits electrically to a tune network base that is built into the instrument face;
- tune network base means comprising, a set of parallel instrument face mounted tone circuit electrical contact plates, each said plate having 29 tone circuit electrical contacts, 29 semicircular horizontal and parallel grooves, said grooves cut into the surface of said instrument face, and 29 solid bare wire tone circuit electrical conductors, said conductors connecting corresponding electrical contacts on said parallel contact plates,
- each bare conducting wire is installed in said instrument's face surface so that its length is conductively exposed across said instrument's face surface;
- a structurally framed tune board for supporting a plurality of pre-set line bearing contacts to said tune network base;
- a structurally framed composing tune board for supporting a plurality of slideable contacts that serve as conductors between a composing board's conducting rods, and the instrument face bare conducting wires;
- a primary conductor line extension sheet for connecting each said tune board contact line electrically to a corresponding stationary hex shaped tone circuit switch contact;
- composing, tone verifying means, comprising, a 29 chromatic tone keyboard, said board having 29 identical white keys, said keys being numbered 1 to 29, said keys each being in circuit with and capable of actuating, on depression, a corresponding tone producing assembly among the said 29 accessed assemblies;
- assembly tone circuit switching means comprising a tune circuit switching mechanism, said mechanism having an electromagnetically actuated pendulum paddle propeller, a unitized mechanism trackway, a vertically reciprocating wedge stabelizer, and a tone circuit electrical extension conductor line;
- a secondary conductor line extension sheet for electrically connecting each said hex shaped tone circuit switch contact's corresponding stationary hex shaped tone circuit switch contact extension line, to a line end, common wire connected, copper connector;
- hand controlled switching mechanism track disengaging means, comprising, a pendulum diverter bracket, a sliding, moveable lever, a stationary lever, a pair of lever lines, and a set of pullies, for lifting a reciprocating wedge out of said track, and diverting a pendulum to a near horizontal attitude, to facilitate relocation or removal of said switching mechanism on or from said trackway;
- a tap key for electrically actuating said tone producing assemblies by rythmically tapping said key;
- electrical means comprising a microphone, a speaker, a speaker volume control, a keyboard on-off switch, an amplifying system on-off switch, a potentiometer, a battery, and an instrument on-off switch.