Music Box

A music box or musical box is an automated musical instrument in a box that creates musical notes by utilizing a collection of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to tweeze the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb. They were developed from music snuff boxes of the 18th century and called carillons à musique (French for “chimes of music”). Some of the much more complicated boxes also have a little drum and/or bells along with the steel comb.