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This rare 1950s typewriter hammers out musical notations, not letters and numbers
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a typewriter that hammers out musical notations. Made for use with music staff paper, the Keaton Music Typewriter was first patented in 1936 by San Francisco’s Robert H. Keaton for use by composers, arrangers, teachers and students.
The original model had just 13 keys but Keaton’s second patent for this “music typing machine” was granted in 1953 and included 33 keys.
If you’ve got a spare $12K, you can pick one of these little beauties up from Etsy shop WorkingTypewriters (back in the 1950s they sold for $225).
