David Le Coultre first created the cylinder music box in Switzerland. around 1870, whereas Mermod Fre'res was the largest manufacturer of the cylinder musical instruments in St Crox. Years later the highly collectible disc driven music boxes were additionally made in France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and other countries.
While there were numerous firms making music boxes, Mermod Fre'res, active throughout the 1800's was one of the few who manufactured both a cylinder music box and a disc driven automatic musical instrument. 2 of the most fashionable ones by the corporate were the "Stella" and "Mira", created during the late 1890's, were made of ok in furniture styles standard in the states throughout that time.
What makes the cylinder music box, inlaid music boxes , and musical snuffboxes, and other types unique is that music results when the teeth of a tuned, steel comb vibrate when plucked by small pins protruding from the cylinder. Many collectors nowadays highly price these music boxes and love to feature then to their collections. Favorites embrace those manufactured throughout the 18th century by Lecoultre, Nicole Fre'res, and Ducommon- Girod.
Making cylinder music boxes was quite the art till 1875. Several craftsmen worked in their homes assembling numerous parts and then took them to factories to complete.
Up till the Civil War, cylinder music boxes were rather plain. Then, manufacturers began creating more elaborate cases with brass, wood inlays, tortoise shell, and mother of pearl.
The years 1890-1914 marked the end of time for giant cylinder automatic musical instruments. In his "Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments", Q. David Bowers states, "The disc-type box, as created by Polyphon, Symphonion, Regina, and others, drove cylinder instruments from the marketplace. Mermod Freres made fine, large cylinder instruments in the 1890's, but by 1900, World War I ended what was left of the cylinder music box industry.
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