| Inlaid music boxes, musical jewelry boxes, | | | | music boxes with combs and cylinders were |
| wooden keepsake boxes, and other types of | | | | created. David Tallis in "Music Boxes: A Guide for |
| mechanical collectibles are favorite items for some | | | | Collectors" states: "By definition, the musical box is |
| music box and antique collectors. Let's continue to | | | | a mechanical instrument in which tuned steel |
| discover the unique history of music boxes and | | | | tongues are set in vibration by means of pins set |
| other mechanical music.The barrel organ was the | | | | in a rotating cylinder or disc, and the invention |
| first form of mechanical music that was made in | | | | was made as a result of all the developments |
| 1502. Following this, the carillon was the next | | | | already mentioned. The method of setting up |
| mechanical music item that was made. This | | | | music on a barrel was well known and had been |
| musical instrument plays a musical scale on a set | | | | used for many years on barrel organs and |
| of bells. Initially, they automatically played chimes | | | | carillons, so it was only a short step from the |
| on the hour, but later when the advantages of | | | | gong in the repeater watch to the tuned steel |
| the barrel organ were recognized, barrels were | | | | tooth which could be plucked by a note. The man |
| pinned with melodies of increasing | | | | to whom the invention is attributed is Antoine |
| complexity.After carillons, attempts were made to | | | | Favre, and the date of the invention was 1796. |
| produce watches that chimed. Daniel Quare in | | | | The authenticity for this date is taken from the |
| 1686 made the first chiming watch. The watch | | | | records of the Society of Arts in Geneva for the |
| struck the hours and quarters or a bell when the | | | | 15th February, 1796, which reported that Monsieur |
| stem was pressed and released. Parisian, Juline | | | | Favre had found the means of producing a carillon |
| LeRoy, realized after Quare's invention, that it | | | | without bells or hammers." As a result of Favre's |
| would be necessary to make the watches thinner. | | | | invention, musical boxes as we know today came |
| He proceeded to do this by taking the bell out | | | | into being.There indeed is much history behind the |
| and allowing the hammer to strike the inside of a | | | | music box and antique collector collectibles. The |
| case. After this, sometime during the second half | | | | next time one looks at an inlaid music box, musical |
| of the 18th century, he was also credited for the | | | | jewelry box, wooden keepsake box, and other |
| invention of the spiral gong on which hammers | | | | types of mechanical music, their unique history |
| strike. It appears as if Breguet made a watch | | | | can be remembered and appreciated.Copyright |
| with repeating gongs in 1785.Soon after the | | | | 2006 Monique HawkinsMonique Hawkins is the |
| inventions of the carillons and chiming watches, | | | | owner of Monique's Music Box. |