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German music box, with disk in playing position, from Leipzig, c. 1900
(credit: Courtesy of the Musical Wonder House, Wiscasset, Maine; photograph, John Spinks)
Mechanical musical instrument in which projecting pins on a revolving brass cylinder or disk, encoding a piece of music, pluck tuned steel tongues. It was probably invented c. 1780 in Switzerland. With its modular cylinders or disks, it was a popular domestic instrument until displaced by the player piano and phonograph.



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