so "London Bridge" will have a different comb than "This Old Man", due to repeated notes. Most combs are tuned specifically to a song. although it can have a non-diatonic tones in there if the song calls for it. the comb doesn't have notes that don't appear in the song and more than likely it'll be diatonic. Because people are mainly conditioned to hear major on bells (due to kids songs mainly), minor has a unique and mysterious tone to them.Īlso worth to note that your typical 18 tine music box movement doesn't "waste" any notes. One of the reasons why both Harry Potter and Sugar Plum Fairies have that "magical" feel to them is because they're minor on a celeste/bells instrument. That said, minor melodies and other modes can be very beautiful. So you see major is the most used if you want a traditional music box sound. An example of a mixed mode song is "and I love her" by The Beatles. I analyzed the 354 music box songs of the 18 note movements in the link above. Play close attention to the 18 note and 22 note music boxes. There's a big list of music box songs you can listen to. The majority of music box songs are very simple and are usually in a major scale as music boxes generally depict traditional songs or upbeat songs for children (think "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", "Happy Birthday", etc).
Not sure why everyone's bringing up modes. One of my main instruments is a celeste and I play hundreds of these types of songs. This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.Keep it simple. The music box is one of several idiophones (instruments whose sounding parts are resonant solids) that are plucked rather than vibrated by percussion. By 1910, however, music boxes had been largely replaced by the phonograph. The discs, which reached 2.5 feet (75 cm) in diameter, could be easily changed, and disc music boxes had displaced cylinder models in popularity by 1900. Changing and storing the cylinders proved cumbersome, however, and so in the 1890s they were replaced by a large-diameter metal disc (shaped and revolved somewhat like a phonograph record) with projections or slots on its surface to pluck the teeth. A typical large music box had a comb of 96 steel teeth plucked by pins on a brass cylinder 13 inches (330 mm) long, and the cylinder could be changed to allow different musical selections. The earliest music boxes were small enough to be enclosed in a pocket watch, but they were gradually built in larger sizes and housed in rectangular wooden boxes. The music box was probably invented about 1770 in Switzerland. Ronald Reagan began eating jelly beans to kick his pipe smoking habit he became so enamored with them, he ordered three and a half tons for his inauguration. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.
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