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general cancel

· January 15, 2016 ·

Mechanism in an automatic musical instrument which turns off several (or all) pipe ranks, instruments, or functions, simultaneously. In some examples, including certain fairground and street organs, the general cancel turns one or more ranks on at the same time it cancels the others. See cancel.

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