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RETRO VINTAGE TILSO
BAR SET
MUSIC BOX DECANTER BOTTLE
AND ICE BUCKET
BLACK LEATHER OVER CHROME METAL BASE
PLAYS "HOW DRY I AM"
BOTTLE TAG IS SCOTCH ON ONE SIDE & GIN ON OTHER
WHOLE UNIT IS ABOUT 12" X 7" 9"
GLASS BOTTLE IS 8" X 3"
SMALL BUCKET IS 5.5" X 6"
TWO HANDLES & RED LINER
USED WITH MINIMAL AGE WEAR
CIRCA 1965
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FYI
A musical box (UK usage; music box in US English) is a 19th century automatic musical instrument that produces sounds by the use of a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc so as to pluck the tuned teeth of a steel comb. They were developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and called carillons à musique. Some of the more complex boxes also have a tiny drum and small bells, in addition to the metal comb. Note that the tone of a musical box is unlike that of any other musical instrument (although it is best described as somewhere between the timbres of an mbira).
The original snuff boxes were tiny containers which could fit into a gentleman's waistcoat pocket. The musical boxes could have any size from that of a hat box to a large piece of furniture. Most of them were tabletop specimens though. They were usually powered by clockwork and originally produced by artisan watchmakers. For most of the 19th century, the bulk of musical box production was concentrated in Switzerland, building upon a strong watchmaking tradition. The first musical box factory was opened there in 1815 by Jérémie Recordon and Samuel Junod. There were also a few manufacturers in Bohemia and Germany. By the end of the 19th century, some of the European makers had opened factories in the United States.
The cylinders were normally made of metal and powered by a spring. In some of the costlier models, the cylinders could be removed to change melodies, thanks to an invention by Paillard in 1862, which was perfected by Metert of Geneva in 1879. In some exceptional models, there were four springs, to provide continuous play for up to three hours.
The very first boxes at the end of the 18th century made use of metal disks. The switchover to cylinders seems to have been complete after the Napoleonic wars. In the last decades of the 19th century, however, mass-produced models such as the Polyphon and others all made use of interchangeable metal disks instead of cylinders. The cylinder-based machines rapidly became a minority.
Orchestrion
The term "musical box" is also applied to clockwork devices where a removable metal disk or cylinder was used only in a "programming" function without producing the sounds directly by means of pins and a comb. Instead, the cylinder (or disk) worked by actuating bellows and levers which fed and opened pneumatic valves which activated a modified wind instrument or plucked the chords on a modified string instrument. Some devices could do both at the same time and were often combinations of player pianos and musical boxes, such as the Orchestrion.
There were many variations of large music machines, usually built for the affluent of the pre-phonograph 19th century. Some were called the Symphonium, others were called the Concert Regina Music Box machine. Both variations were as tall as a grandfather clock and both used interchangeable large disks to play different sets of tunes. Both were spring-wound and driven and both had a bell-like sound. The machines were often made in England, Italy, and America, with additional disks made in Switzerland, Austria, and Prussia. Early "juke-box" pay versions of them existed in public places also. Marsh's free Museum and curio shop in Long Beach, Washington State (USA) has several still-working versions of them on public display.
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, most musical boxes were gradually replaced by player pianos, which were louder and more versatile and melodious, when kept tuned, and by the smaller gramophones which had the advantage of playing back voices. Escalating labour costs increased the price and further reduced volume. Now modern automation is helping bring music box prices back down.
Collectors prize surviving musical boxes from the 19th century and the early 20th century as well as new music boxes being made today in several countries (see "Evolving Box Production", below). The cheap, small windup music box movements (including the cylinder and comb and the spring) to add a bit of music to mass-produced jewelry boxes and novelty items are now produced in countries with low labour costs.
Many kinds of musical box movements are available to the home craft person, locally or through online retailers.
Small musical boxes or lockets are sometimes featured in animated films, like Anastasia. Musical lockets are commonly used in Japanese anime and manga to convey romantic feelings. In Japan, the word "orgel" (, orugru?) is used for a musical box. 'Orgel' is adopted from the Dutch/German word originally meaning 'organ'. Also widely available are CDs containing popular and classic songs in music box tone. These CDs are often categorized as relaxation music.
Musical boxes have also played a role in a number of classic video games. For example, in Mother (video game) the main character receives a musical box at the beginning of the game, throughout the story it becomes of considerable importance. In Super Mario Bros. 3 the hero commonly gains a musical box as an item.
Musical boxes in the form of solvable puzzles feature heavily in the mythos of Hellraiser.
In the film, Music Box (1989), a musical box is used to hide incriminating photographs that depict atrocities during the Holocaust.
The song The Musical Box by the band Genesis tells a story of a girl called Cynthia who finds a Music Box that plays "Old King Cole" and causes the soul of her deceased friend Henry to return in a restored body.
In the manga series Pandora Hearts, Oz falls down a hole and discovers a pocket watch that plays a strange, nostalgic melody (one of the many references to Alice in Wonderland). For the anime series, the melody was composed by Yuki Kajiura.
In the Xbox 360 game Fable II (2008) a mysterious object called the relic is discovered to be the Music Box bought by the Hero of Bowerstone as a child. It helps you stop Lucien from using the Tattered Spire's power.
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