Music box

Music box (Fr.: boîte à musique; Ger.: Spieldose), automatic linguaphone consisting essentially of a comb of tuned metal teeth, their free ends pointed, and a pinned barrel actuated by clockwork, all contained in a box. The deeper the pitch required, the deeper the tooth was cut. Successors to the *musical clock, the first music boxes were made ca. 1770 in Switzerland, with a comb of from 15 to 25 teeth worked by a watch spring. They were called carillon à musique. Credit for producing the…