music box

English - Turkish

Definition of music box in English Turkish dictionary

laterna

müzik kutusu

Doğum günüm için bir müzik kutusu aldım. - I got a music box for my birthday.

Halam benim ona İtalya'dan bir müzik kutusu almamı istedi. - My aunt asked me to buy her a music box from Italy.

latarna

English - English

Definition of music box in English English dictionary

A box that generates or plays music, particularly one using mechanical means rather than electronic, generally using a cylinder or disk containing the music

produces music by means of pins on a revolving cylinder that strike the tuned teeth of a comb-like metal plate

A music box is a box that plays a tune when you open the lid. = musical box. A music-making device consisting of a housing or box enclosing a sounding mechanism, especially one in which a row of tuned steel teeth are plucked by pins set in a revolving cylinder to produce a melody. a box that plays a musical tune when you open it. Mechanical musical instrument in which projecting pins on a revolving brass cylinder or disk, encoding a piece of music, pluck tuned steel tongues. It was probably invented 1780 in Switzerland. With its modular cylinders or disks, it was a popular domestic instrument until displaced by the player piano and phonograph

box that plays a melody when its lid is raised

Hyphenation

mu·sic box

Turkish pronunciation

myuzîk bäks

Pronunciation

/ˈmyo͞ozək ˈbäks/ /ˈmjuːzɪk ˈbɑːks/

Etymology

() From music plus box.