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A Polyphon playing "Silent Night" (the music starts 68 seconds into the video) A 1905 PolyphonA Polyphon is a disc-playing music box.The machine was invented in 1870; it was first manufactured by the Polyphon Musikwerke, in Leipzig, Germany, full-scale production having started about 1896 and continuing into the early 20th century.
Musicbox broadcast a 24-hour program with video clips and music broadcasts. The station was located in Munich's Schellingstraße. Musicbox was the first German music station in the cable pilot project of Ludwigshafen to be launched on 1 January 1984 alongside Sat.1 (formerly PKS), the ZDF Musikkanal and other channels, and could only be received there.
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.
Regina Music Box – Regina's music boxes were their original product, and they had an 80–90% share of the market at the company's peak. Regina music boxes use a flat metal disc, as opposed to a cylinder. Sizes ranged from 8.5 to 27 inches. The boxes were renowned for the rich tone, and they used a double set of tuned teeth.
As a 24-hour television channel during the 1980s, Music Box was able to reach 60 million potential viewers in Europe and the Middle East thanks to satellite distribution. . At the time, a satellite dish and receiver were very expensive and for this reason had better viewing figures in countries where cable television was already used such as Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, Ireland ...
He describes how the comb is mass manufactured, details the spring, gears and governor that drive the box, and shares some history of early music boxes. Outtakes are included at the end of the video. Čeština: Jak funguje music box - krátký naučný film z roku 2015 natočený Billem Hammackem vysvětlující princip funkce hrací skříňky ...
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The numbers station got its nickname after listeners believed that the "Swedish Rhapsody No. 1" by Hugo Alfvén was being used as the interval signal.Documents subsequently released from Polish intelligence revealed that the signal was produced by a music box manufactured by Reuge (pitched to sound like an ice cream truck) playing the song.