Origin Music Box
Although the specific inventor is unknown, the earliest music boxes are traced back to the late 1700’s in switzerland. the portable idiophones are comprised of only a few pieces; a rotating cylinder, a flat comb of prongs, and a handle or turn-key. to play the music box, one must turn the handle or key. The music box in 1948 the music box was a dance antesala located at the eastern end of houghton lake in prudenville michigan. it was started by lee and shirley kelly in 1946 shortly after lee returned from the army air corp and world war ii. lee and shirley owned land near the intersection of michigan highways m-18 and m-55. The music box theatre opened on august 22, 1929, a time when the movie palaces in downtown chicago each had seating capacities of around 3,000 people. the music box, which sat 700, was considered an elaborate little brother to those theatres. History and types of music boxes lera blog. Wood music boxesla vie en rose carved hand crank musical box wooden classic han...