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  2. File:How a Wind Up Music Box Works.webm - Wikipedia

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    English: Bill reveals the engineering inside a toy music box. He describes how the comb is mass manufactured, details the spring, gears and governor that drive the box, and shares some history of early music boxes. Outtakes are included at the end of the video.

  3. Music box - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Music Box (film) - Wikipedia

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    Music Box is a 1989 film by Costa-Gavras that tells the story of a Hungarian-American immigrant who is accused of having been a war criminal. The plot revolves around his daughter, an attorney, who defends him, and her struggle to uncover the truth. The film was written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Costa-Gavras.

  5. The Music Box - Wikipedia

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    The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.The film, which depicts the pair attempting to move a piano up a long flight of steps, won the first Academy Award for Best Live Action Short (Comedy) in 1932.

  6. Siphon - Wikipedia

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    The flush is triggered by a lever or handle that operates a simple diaphragm-like piston pump that lifts enough water to the crest of the siphon to start the flow of water which then completely empties the contents of the cistern into the toilet bowl.

  7. Jack-in-the-box - Wikipedia

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    A jack-in-the-box is a children's toy that outwardly consists of a music box with a crank. [1] When the crank is turned, a music box mechanism in the toy plays a melody . After the crank has been turned a sufficient number of times (such as at the end of the melody), the lid pops open and a figure, usually a clown or jester , pops out of the box.

  8. Talk about a throwback -- Wait until you see what the cast of ...

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    "Holes" of course told the story of Shia's character Stanley who was wrongly convicted of a crime and is forced to a desert detention camp where they dig, you guessed it, holes. For a quick ...

  9. Violin construction and mechanics - Wikipedia

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    A violin consists of a body or corpus, a neck, a finger board, a bridge, a soundpost, four strings, and various fittings.The fittings are the tuning pegs, tailpiece and tailgut, endpin, possibly one or more fine tuners on the tailpiece, and in the modern style of playing, usually a chinrest, either attached with the cup directly over the tailpiece or to the left of it.