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  2. Music box - Wikipedia

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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 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.

  3. Jack-in-the-box - Wikipedia

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    A jack-in-the-box is a children's toy that outwardly consists of a music box with a crank. [1] When the crank is turned, a music box mechanism in the toy plays a melody . After the crank has been turned a sufficient number of times (such as at the end of the melody), the lid pops open and a figure, usually a clown or jester , pops out of the box.

  4. The Magical Music Box - Wikipedia

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    The Magical Music Box, more commonly known as The Music Box was a British children's magazine.It ran from 1994 to 1996 in a series of 52 fortnightly serialisations. The aim of the magazine was to introduce children into classical music and to popularise this form of music among the younger generations.

  5. Music box (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Music Box Brazil, a Brazilian music television channel; musicbox (German TV channel) Music Box Italia, an Italian music television channel; The Music Box, a 1957 United Kingdom music variety show produced by Associated-Rediffusion; Music Box, a 1981 Canadian educational television series produced by Heather Conkie

  6. The Musical Box (song) - Wikipedia

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    The lyrics are based on a Victorian-style fairy tale written by Gabriel, about two children in a country house. The girl, Cynthia, kills the boy, Henry, by cleaving his head off with a croquet mallet. She later discovers Henry's musical box. When she opens it, "Old King Cole" plays, and Henry returns as a spirit, but starts aging very quickly ...

  7. Music of Minecraft - Wikipedia

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    The music of the 2011 video game Minecraft, developed by Mojang Studios, primarily consists of two soundtrack albums by German musician Daniel Rosenfeld, better known as C418. American composer Lena Raine has also contributed music for four major updates to the game since 2020, alongside Aaron Cherof and Kumi Tanioka who worked on the most ...

  8. The Music Box - Wikipedia

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    The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.The film, which depicts the pair attempting to move a piano up a long flight of steps, won the first Academy Award for Best Live Action Short (Comedy) in 1932.

  9. Elizabethan era - Wikipedia

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    The walls of Tudor houses were often made from timber and wattle and daub, or brick; stone and tiles were more common in the wealthier homes. The daub was usually then painted with limewash, making it white, and the wood was painted with black tar to prevent rotting, but not in Tudor times; the Victorians did this afterwards. The bricks were ...