Summary
Music, as we know it today, is all around us, from talented buskers on the street corners to manufactured bands on television.
But in the 18th Century it was a different story, unless you had your own personal musician to hand night and day. The invention of the cylinder music box changed all this. Invented by the Swiss in the late 18th Century, it was a simple mechanism, produced as a novelty, and comprised a cylinder with strategically positioned pins which, when plucked by the teeth of a metal comb, produced music.See the full content of this document
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Cylinder Box Was Music to the Ears
These basic models grew in the early 19th Century from small novelties, to more elaborate...
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