Please Help Me Identify This Tool

[user40324]

Hello

I found this in a waste pile outside of an automotive clinic. Anyone know what it may be?
Thanks

 

[Fly YX]

Looks like a player, piano part. The few I’ve worked on had something similar, but not 100% sure.

 

[user40324]

Looks like a player, piano part. The few I’ve worked on had something similar, but not 100% sure.

Nice ID, I believe you are right.
Thank you

 

[TailGunner3000]

Edited

 

[Fly YX]

I have worked on a bunch of weird stuff from nuclear reactors (not anything crazy just the Control side of it) to animatronics and aircraft. I like working on some of the older stuff to and trying to figure out how it works especially trying to restore old Nickelodeon’s. Worked on animatronics for the this guy a few years ago now he wants to see if I can work some automated music machines for him. Should be fun never did it before.

 

[GrantCee]

Looks like a player, piano part. The few I’ve worked on had something similar, but not 100% sure.

You're in the general neighborhood. It's been a long time since I've seen the inside of one, but I'm pretty sure it's part of a mechanical organ (aka band organ) from a carousel.

 

[four.cycle]

roller thingie looks just right... gears and chains and such...

 

[Walkers]

It would make one hell of a paper towel dispenser!

 

[neophyte]

It looks like the pneumatic switches or other parts you find on wood pipe organs.
I can’t say for certain that that is what it is, but the construction methods are exactly what you see in older organs.

 

[Toolmaker51]

It would make one hell of a paper towel dispenser!

But what music could it play? Aside from the perforations, that is.

 

[Walkers]

But what music could it play? Aside from the perforations, that is.

Maybe it should be a toilet paper dispenser, then the perforations would act as accompaniment to the other music.