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Regina Music Box – Regina's music boxes were their original product, and they had an 80–90% share of the market at the company's peak. Regina music boxes use a flat metal disc, as opposed to a cylinder. Sizes ranged from 8.5 to 27 inches. The boxes were renowned for the rich tone, and they used a double set of tuned teeth.
A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.
An initial producer of musical boxes and clock movements (which they were still producing in the 1950s), as well a cigarette lighters, they started producing Edison-type phonographs in 1903. Thorens TD190-1 (first 190 since 1999)
The Music Box hosted a revival of Hay Fever in 1985, [172] [173] followed the next year by a revival of Loot, [169] [174] which was Alec Baldwin's first Broadway appearance. [175] In 1987, the Music Box staged Sweet Sue with Mary Tyler Moore, [169] [176] as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company's hit production Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
A Polyphon playing "Silent Night" (the music starts 68 seconds into the video) A 1905 PolyphonA Polyphon is a disc-playing music box.The machine was invented in 1870; it was first manufactured by the Polyphon Musikwerke, in Leipzig, Germany, full-scale production having started about 1896 and continuing into the early 20th century.
Founded in 2019, Music Box School on Stage serves about 250 students at its Germantown location. Now, it's adding a Collierville music school.
Music Box Films [1] is a distributor of foreign and independent film in theatrical, DVD/Blu-ray, and video-on-demand markets in the United States. Based in Chicago, Music Box Films is independently owned and operated by the Southport Music Box Corporation, which also owns and operates the Music Box Theatre .
Seeburg was an American design and manufacturing company of automated musical equipment, such as orchestrions, jukeboxes, and vending equipment. Founded in 1902, its first products were Orchestrions and automatic pianos but after the arrival of gramophone records, the company developed a series of "coin-operated phonographs."