musical box
musical box. Toy in which pins on a rotating barrel pluck the teeth of a comb. These teeth are graduated in length, thus providing a scale of notes from which tunes can be produced. (Multiple sets of pins produce several tunes.) Mechanism usually activated by lifting of lid.
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