You've got it easy. I watched a recent BBC4 doc on the automata makers of
the 1700s and 1800s. The one that played a standard flute, with full
fingering and embouchure. Then the animated whole town with was it 700
separate movements sequenced by an addressable, ie not sequentially stepped,
complex stacked multicam system like a very complex Strowger mechanism.

Some of this is shown in the film "Hugo".

I used to have a packet of drawings made by an automaton in the Franklin
Institute. It was on display churning them out, and used a Parker T-ball
Jotter.