1. The History of Music Boxes
Ginger Bellisario
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-Instigator of mechanical
music
-Bell towers
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3. -Bell ringer
-Shake the rope
-Strike the hammer inside
the bell
-Pulleys
-Pull the rope
-inconvenient
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4. -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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5. -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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8. -Dials
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9. -Town Clock Shrunk to
become the pocket
watch(16th century)
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10. -German watchmakers
-Tiny Hammers strike
smaller bells
-Presented Emperor Rudolf
II first truly automatic
musical clock 1601
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11. -Englishman Edward
Barlow
-First Repeater WATCH in
1687
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12. -1730 German Anton Ketterer
-First Cuckoo Clock
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13. -Louis Favre
-Watchmaker from
Geneva, Switzerland
-Believed to be
inventor of the first
music box
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17. -1815“Key Wind”
- Four to Six Tunes
-Craftsmen more concerned with tonal quality
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18. -1840 “Rachet Wind”
-Played six to twelve tunes per cylinder
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19. - 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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20. -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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21. -1876 Gem Organette
Production Germany and
the United States
-Combination of the
cylinder type workings and
reed organ housing
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22. -1878 Edison’s Talking
Machine
-Turmoil for music boxes
-Produced Voices
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23. -1886 Symphonion
-Revolving DISCS struck with
goose quills
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24. 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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25. -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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26. -1899 Polyphon
Music Works sent
workers and
equipment to
America
-Continued to
prosper after being
transplanted
-Inexpensive
-Disc-type
prospered
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27. -Polyohon Music
Works
-Surpassed the
Symphonion
Corporation
-Nursery
boxes,Clocks, Coin-
in-the-slot machines
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28. -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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29. -“Music box” clockwork
devices
-Not only cylinder
-Modified wind
instruments
-Modified String
instruments
-Combinations of player
pianos and music boxes
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30. 1905-1922
-Phonograph began production
-Stole home audiences
-Production of music boxes dwindled
-Bankruptcy in main manufacturing
companies
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31. -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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