Definition of Musical box

1. Noun. Produces music by means of pins on a revolving cylinder that strike the tuned teeth of a comb-like metal plate.

Exact synonyms: Music Box
Generic synonyms: Instrument, Musical Instrument

Definition of Musical box

1. Noun. (musical instruments) Any of various devices that play tunes by means of pins, on a rotating disk or revolving drum, that strike or pluck metal teeth ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Musical Box

music stool
music teacher
music theory
music therapies
music therapy
music to someone's ears
music video
music videos
musica ficta
musical
musical accompaniment
musical agraphia
musical alexia
musical arrangement
musical bow
musical box
musical boxes
musical chairs
musical comedy
musical composition
musical drama
musical genre
musical group
musical harmony
musical instrument
musical instrument digital interface
musical instruments
musical interval
musical intervals
musical mode

Literary usage of Musical box

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1875)
"I, Dawkins' " Cave Hunting ;", Hartwig's "Sea and its Living Wonders;" 3, Colgate's Soaps for Travelers ; 4, musical box, " a present for a sleepless ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"MUSICAL-BOX, an instrument for producing by mechanical means tunes or pieces of ... The modern musical-box is an elaboration of the elegant toy musical ..."

3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1856)
"a continued sound, but short and crisp, like a musical-box, and capable of being mixed with the ordinary tone. It has been played upon at a concert and much ..."

4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"musical box, a case enclosing mechanism so constructed as to play tunes automatically. The principle of the mechanism is the same as that of the barrel or ..."

5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1856)
"a continued sound, but short and crisp, like a musical-box, and capable of being mixed with the ordinary tone. It has been played upon at a concert and much ..."

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