Lutèce Créations Hand-Cranked Music Box/Musical Box Made Of Illustrated Cardboard In The Shape Of A Book With 18-Note Musical Mechanism - Habanera - Carmen - Love Is A Rebellious Bird (Georges Bizet)

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Hand-cranked music box / musical box made of cardboard and metal in the shape of a book. By turning the crank of this music box continuously and in the right rhythm, the melody sounds. Hand-cranked music box / musical box with traditional 18-note musical mechanism. By opening the book of this hand-cranked music box, we can see the musical mechanism working. Dimensions of this hand-cranked music box / musical box: 5 X 6 X 3 cm. Weight of this hand-cranked music box / musical box : 55 g. The musical cycle of the mechanism of this music box is approximately 15 seconds (everything depends on the rythm used to turn the crank). Melody of this hand-cranked music box / musical box in the shape of a book : Habanera - Carmen - Love is a rebellious bird (Georges Bizet). We also offer on Amazon a wide range of book-shaped hand-cranked music boxes / musical boxes with very diverse musics: film musics, children's musics, French song musics, etc. Encyclopedia: A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb. The popular device best known today as a "music box" developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and were originally called carillons à musique (French for "chimes of music"). Some of the more complex music boxes also contain a tiny drum and/or bells in addition to the metal comb.