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bitripper
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Trptbenge
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With the rolls it looks a little like the trumpet version of a player piano. I don't think I have ever seen anything like that before.
Mike
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LaserBoy
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It looks to me like some kind of "music box" made to look like a trumpet.
The usual mechanism, like those embedded in a jewelry box, is spring wound
and has a rotating metal drum that strikes or plucks a metal comb (one-ended
xylophone bars). This one has a paper mechanism. I don't know anything about
antique music boxes ... maybe someone else can chime in?
Looking at the conical kink where the bell was soldered, I don't think this
is a playable instrument in the usual sense of buzzing your lips to make a
sound.
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vlbcw1
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Guys,
I think it's an antique toilet paper roller-upper....with genuine antique toilet paper! 
Regards,
Lori
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