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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.
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.
Antoine Favre-Salomon (30 November 1734 – 17 August 1820) was a Swiss watchmaker.In 1796, he invented a pocket watch with an embedded musical mechanism. [1] which was later recognised as the first "comb" music box.
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.
Early Thorens grammaphone (Musée d'automates et de boîtes à musique) Thorens Tube Amplifier AZ25Thorens is a formerly Swiss manufacturer of high-end audio equipment. . Thorens is historically renowned for the range of phonographs (turntables) the manufacturer p
Composer Kris Bowers calls the score to Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” “one of the most meaningful” of his career, but there’s one music cue, “Leaves,” which he says “stands out as one ...
Music Box Theatre, a Broadway theater in New York City; Music Box Theatre (Chicago), Chicago, Illinois Music Box Theater (Los Angeles), Los Angeles, California Musical Box, a British Medium Mark A Whippet tank that achieved fame for actions during the Battle of Amiens
According to a 1987 article in The New York Times, the Music Box Society International first formed in the early 1900s to preserve and conserve existing examples of music boxes. [ 1 ] According to the MBSI's own website, the organization was founded in 1949. [ 2 ]