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Music box
Box that produces musical notes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Music box (disambiguation).
"Symphonion" redirects here. For the historical musical instrument, see Charles Wheatstone.
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. The popular device best known today as a "music box" developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and were originally called carillons à musique (French for "chimes of music"). Some of the more complex boxes also contain a tiny drum and/or bells in addition to the metal comb.
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