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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.
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 ]
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.
This was an Edison Class M Electric Phonograph retrofitted with a device patented under the name of 'Coin Actuated Attachment for Phonograph'. The music was heard via one of four listening tubes. [4] In 1928, Justus P. Seeburg, who was manufacturing player pianos, combined an electrostatic loudspeaker with a record player that was coin-operated ...
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)
Music Box Brazil, a Brazilian music television channel; musicbox (German TV channel) Music Box Italia, an Italian music television channel; The Music Box, a 1957 United Kingdom music variety show produced by Associated-Rediffusion; Music Box, a 1981 Canadian educational television series produced by Heather Conkie
The Fonda Theatre (formerly Music Box Theatre, Guild Theatre, Fox Theatre, and Pix Theatre) is a concert venue located on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. Designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style , the 31,000-square-foot (2,900 m 2 ) theater has hosted live events, films, and radio broadcasts.