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  2. Singing bird box - Wikipedia

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    An unusual singing bird box by Frères Rochat, ca. 1810. The bird is shown in a tiny cage, not concealed inside the box as usual. A singing bird box (boîte à oiseau chanteur in French) is a box, usually rectangular-shaped, which contains within a miniature automaton singing bird concealed below an oval lid and activated by means of an operating lever.

  3. Automaton - Wikipedia

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    Mechanical coin-operated fortune tellers were introduced to boardwalks in Britain and America. [64] In Paris during this period, many small family based companies of automata makers thrived. From their workshops they exported thousands of clockwork automata and mechanical singing birds around the world.

  4. Blaise Bontems - Wikipedia

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    Blaise Bontems (15 March 1814 Le Ménil - 1893) was a French specialist in the manufacture of automaton singing birds and the first of a dynasty of automaton manufacturers, which included his son Charles Jules and his grandson Lucien. [1] Bontems' birds were famous for the realism of their song. [2] [3] [4]

  5. Music box - Wikipedia

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    Mechanical Music Box – Auld Lang Syne Mechanical Music from Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences LP vinyl record: "The Concert Regina Music Box and the Symphonium" (1977, Nostalgia Repertoire Records – Sonic Arts Corporation, 665 Harrison Street, San Francisco Ca. 94107, Curator: Leo de Gar Kulka , Record No. RR 4771 Stereo.)

  6. Woman Gets the Rudest Wake up Call From Her Cockatiel ... - AOL

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    Being a bird owner isn't all bird seed and pretty wings you know. There are some less glamorous parts of the job, like the singing. Oh, the singing.Sure, it can be pretty cute to hear them chirp ...

  7. Talk:Music box - Wikipedia

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    1780: The mechanical singing bird is invented by the Jaquet-Droz brothers, clockmakers from La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1848, the manufacturing of the singing birds is improved by Blaise Bontems in his Parisian workshop, to the point where it has remained unchanged to this day. Barrel organs become more popular.