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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.
It focuses on music boxes of all sizes, from small, hand-held wind-up boxes, to fairground organs or room sized orchestrions, including musical clocks and snuff boxes, singing bird boxes, player pianos (reproducing pianos, nickelodeons), and automatic musical instruments of any kind.
Diatonic button accordion (German make, early 20th century) The term squeezebox (also squeeze box, squeeze-box) is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophones such as the accordion and the concertina.
The company name was a combination of the three partner's first initials (V.A.L.) plus the common abbreviation for company (Co.) Valco manufactured and sold electric (since the 1950s), [3] resonator, [3] lap steel [3] and classical [4] guitars and vacuum tube amplifiers under a variety of brand names including Supro, Airline, National and Oahu. [1]
L. D. Heater Music Company; Larrivée (guitar company) Latin Percussion; A. Laubin; Leblanc (musical instrument manufacturer) Leedy Manufacturing Company; Levsen Organ Company; William Lewis & Son Co. Link Piano and Organ Company; Lollar Pickups; Lowrey organ; Ludwig Drums; Luis and Clark
The celesta (/ s ɪ ˈ l ɛ s t ə /) or celeste (/ s ɪ ˈ l ɛ s t /), also called a bell-piano, is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. It looks similar to an upright piano (four- or five-octave), albeit with smaller keys and a much smaller cabinet, or a large wooden music box (three-octave).
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E.G. Wright and Company, a Boston Massachusetts firm that built tenor brass from 1841 to 1869; Boston Musical Instrument Company, incorporated as the Boston Musical Instrument Manufactury as a merger of Graves & Co. and E.G. Wright, built tenor brass from 1869 to 1928; Hall Instrument Company, established 1862, merged with Quinby Brothers to form