The History of Music Boxes
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The History of Music BoxesGinger Bellisario
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prequel Mechanical Music
Bell towers
when bells need to be rung
-Instigator of mechanical music
-Bell towers
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-Bell ringer
-Shake the rope
-Strike the hammer inside the bell
-Pulleys
-Pull the rope
-inconvenient
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-Earliest Modern Clocks
-Cam attached to a shaft that rotated once an hour
cam raises and lets fall a hammer that strikes the bell
-struck the hours had no dials to read the time
-striking feature more important than the clock faces
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-More complicated systems
-Sometime 14th century
-Carillons- A set of stationary bells hung in a tower and sounded by manual/pedal action/machinery
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-Dials
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-Town Clock Shrunk to become the pocket watch(16th century)
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-German watchmakers
-Tiny Hammers strike smaller bells
-Presented Emperor Rudolf II first truly automatic
musical clock 1601
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-Englishman Edward Barlow
-First Repeater WATCH in 1687
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-1730 German Anton Ketterer
-First Cuckoo Clock
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-Louis Favre
-Watchmaker from Geneva, Switzerland
-Believed to be inventor of the first
music box
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-1815“Key Wind”
- Four to Six Tunes
-Craftsmen more concerned with tonal quality
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-1840 “Rachet Wind”
-Played six to twelve tunes per cylinder
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- Typically, metal cylinders powered my a spring
-Paillard 1862
-Changeable cylinders for different tunes
-More springs =continuous play
-Swiss were making small music boxes
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-1875 St. Croix, District of Geneva, Switzerland
-First music box production line
-Pins given to transposer
-Sent to Swiss homes and Orphanages
-Swiss craftsman took metal and formed it into the cylinder
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-1876 Gem Organette Production Germany and
the United States
-Combination of the cylinder type workings and
reed organ housing
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-1878 Edison’s Talking Machine
-Turmoil for music boxes
-Produced Voices
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-1886 Symphonion
-Revolving DISCS struck with goose quills
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1870-1890
-Cylinder music box production at is height
-Most technically challenging period
-Zithers, Bells,Castanets,Drums and Cymbals
-Price became prohibitive
-Going out of business
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-First music box factory had opened in Switzerland 1815
-Manufacturers in Bohemia and Germany
-End of the 19th century European makers opened factories in the United States
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-1899 Polyphon Music Works sent
workers and equipment to
America
-Continued to prosper after being
transplanted
-Inexpensive
-Disc-type prospered
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-Polyohon Music Works
-Surpassed the Symphonion Corporation
-Nursery boxes,Clocks, Coin-in-the-slot machines
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-1901 Melville Clark -First full 88-key player piano
-End of the 19th century beginning 20th -player pianos
gradually replaced Music boxes
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-“Music box” clockwork devices
-Not only cylinder -Modified wind
instruments -Modified String
instruments -Combinations of player pianos and music boxes
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1905-1922-Phonograph began production
-Stole home audiences
-Production of music boxes dwindled
-Bankruptcy in main manufacturing companies
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-Current music box production has not differed from the original designs much
-Sill in production all over the world
- Swiss still famous for their music boxes
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