Editing Music box (section)

{{Short description|Automatic musical instrument}}
{{Redirects|Symphonion|the historical musical instrument|Charles Wheatstone|other uses|music box (disambiguation)}}
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[[File:Polyphon_Spieldose_(1).jpg|thumb|Music box by [[Polyphon-Musikwerke]] in Leipzig, Germany]]
[[File:Baud museum mg 8548.jpg|thumb|A music box]]
[[File:Orgue de maneta de Diego Evans, MDMB 65.jpg|thumb|Interior of a large music box at the [[Museu de la Música de Barcelona]] in Catalonia]]
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| description  = Polyphon metal disc (1890)
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A '''music box''' ([[American English]]) or '''musical box''' ([[British English]]) is an automatic [[musical instrument]] in a box that produces [[Musical note|musical notes]] by using a set of [[pin]]s placed on a revolving [[cylinder (geometry)|cylinder]] or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or [[lamellophone|''lamellae'']]) of a steel [[comb#Making music|comb]]. The popular device best known today as a "music box" developed from musical [[decorative boxes#Snuff box|snuff box]]es of the 18th century and were originally called {{lang|fr|carillons à musique}} (French for "chimes of music"). Some of the more complex boxes also contain a tiny [[drum]] and/or [[bell]]s in addition to the metal comb.