Longer cylinders could be pinned for multiple tunes and adjusted laterally to switch between songs. A few years later, Francois Nicole, of the famous Nicole Frères firm, created a steel hairspring damper to soften the ring of each note, and the modern music box was born. However, it wasn’t until 1875 that the first music box factory was opened by the Paillard company in St. Croix, Switzerland. Previously, all music boxes were produced through smaller cottage-industry operations using the skills of different craftspeople to assemble a complete product. These early musical contraptions were an expensive luxury item favored by the aristocracy, primarily playing hymns and operatic songs. Later versions added mechanical automata to their complex musical tunes for increasingly magical effects. By the late 1800s, music boxes were built with removable cylinders whose tunes could be changed by replacing specially designed drawers. Finally, in 1885, Paul Lochmann created a music box called the “Symphonion” using a flat metal disc that rotated on a turntable. These metal discs could be easily swapped out, much like a vinyl record. Pop music was suddenly affordable and immediately accessible; within weeks of a Broadway show’s debut, its most memorable musical themes were available on music-box discs.
Selected Products
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Music Box Sets
Music Box Bluetooth
Music Box Crank
Music Box Mechanism Wind Up
Music Box Ornament
Music Boxes Made In Italy
Music Box Hedwig Theme
Music Boxes Antique
Music Box Frozen
Music Box You Are So Beautiful To Me
Music Box For Baby
Music Box Record Player
Music Box 1000 Years
Music Box Thorens
Cylinder Music Box
Music Box Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Music Box House
Music Box 72
Music Boxes Movement
Music Box Animated
Music Box Baby Boy
Cot Mobile Music Box
Music Box Ornament
Christmas Music Boxes
Happy Birthday Music Box
Ghibli Music Box
Music Box For Baby
Music Box Free Shipping
Music Box Electronic
Music Box Grandfather'S Clock
Music Box Love Song
Music Box Pink
Music Box Insert
Music Box Speaker
Music Box Pitty Party
Old Music Box