I've got a little side table that when you open the lid plays a tune. The musical movement has stopped working and I can't remember what it should play.
So my question is, do you know the name of the tune that your music box plays?
2007-09-02 05:50:15 · 26 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
When I married the love of my life, my son bought me an wooden, inlaid music box that plays "The Rose". We danced to that song at my wedding (he gave me away). I have a few things in there like a lock of his hair, his navy pin, a high school football photo, the earring I took him to buy to drive his father crazy, a loving note, and his baby picture in a bracelet. I love to hear the music and look at bits and pieces of him.
I have another one that's twice the size, also received at our wedding, that is green wood inlaid with mandolins and flowers. It plays something Russian. I keep a hand drawn map to this town (by my husband for my fist trip here) and a love note from my husband.
I adore music boxes.
2007-09-02 07:26:22 · answer #1 · answered by Granny 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have a small musical box in a walnut wood case. It has a cylinder with pins on it which, as it revolves, activates the teeth on a comb like strip of metal, and this produces the sound which is very appealing. It plays about five different tunes but I don't know the name of any of them as the writing on the label inside the lid is so faded.We think it is mid Victorian therefore about 160 years old.
2007-09-02 06:13:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
When my Dad retired, he took up the hobby of restoring old musical boxes - the large antique ones from the 1800's. He'd buy a decrepit old thing with half of the pieces missing, and painstakingly restore it over time, often making the necessary parts from scratch. Then when the "works" were complete, he'd french polish the wooden box. He ended up with about a dozen of them, and when I took the kids to visit, he'd play them all for us. Lovely memories ! When he passed away, all the family got one each - mine is large, about 2 feet long and 1 foot wide, with an inlay of musical instruments on the top. Inside, as well as the usual teeth and drum, there are a row of bells, each decorated with either a butterfly or a bee. As the music plays, little hammers hit the bells in time with the music. Its a joy to own, and a little bit of my Dad to remember him by.
2007-09-03 04:57:24 · answer #3 · answered by Stella 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have about fifteen musical figurines, many are The Lion King characters that play songs from the play. I also have a lot of musical carousel horses. I can't even remember all the names of those songs. I also have a little musical figurine made out of tin. It's a little man sitting at an upright piano holding a cup in his hand for donations. It plays The Entertainer, and I have it sitting on my antique upright piano.
2007-09-02 13:56:36 · answer #4 · answered by Starscape 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sylvia, you were conspicuous by your absence yesterday. Hope you had a good day.
Yes I have a music box. My Mother brought it back with her when she went to Italy in 1958 so it's not far short of 50 years old. It still plays the Isle of Capri and has a lovely floral inlaid top.
2007-09-03 05:10:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We have a curious little musical box made in Japan with a fiddler playing a highly recognisable tune: "when the smoke gets in your eyes".
2007-09-02 10:54:03 · answer #6 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've just dashed over to check mine, lifted the lid and nothing happened. I thought you'd put a jinx on it until I noticed that little wind up key on the back. Anyway, mine plays Fur Elise, and not very well, which is probably why it wasn't wound up
2007-09-02 07:52:01 · answer #7 · answered by Florence-Anna 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeh, I had a pink one with a number of small cubicles in while i replaced into like 7 or 8. It performed 'Swan Lake' and a ballerina twirled around in the midsection on a stand that raised up once you opened it. i think of I placed chocolates in it although! I nevertheless have it now... not that i exploit it although, that is now greater of a memorabilia merchandise.
2016-10-17 12:00:59 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. When I was a teen, my mother gave me a musical box with Heaven Scent perfume. It plays Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago. I also have another that plays Cabaret.
2007-09-02 06:57:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2015-01-26 00:15:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋