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To explain the term "music box", we must first understand what "music box" is. There is such a record in the ancient Chinese "Three Character Classics": "Hey, earth leather, wood, stone and gold. Silk and bamboo are eight tones. " From this, we can know the classification of ancient musical instruments in China, that is, points
There are eight categories: cheng, earth, leather, wood, stone, gold, silk and bamboo. Sheng and cymbals in ancient musical instruments belong to the category of Shu; Equivalent soil types; Drum belongs to leather; Wood such as wood fish; Qingdeng. Belonging to rocks; Bells, bells, etc. Belonging to gold; Qin, Qin belongs to silk; Pipe, flute and flute all belong to bamboo. It is not difficult to see that clay, leather, wood, stone, gold, silk and bamboo all refer to the raw materials used to make musical instruments. These eight raw materials can be said to be the raw materials for making all musical instruments. The word "music box" is a vivid and colorful definition. In other words, this box contains the sounds of all musical instruments, including the sounds of all musical expressions. Later, the use of perforated paper as a "music score" and the emergence of compressed air speakers prompted the advent of the phonograph. Then it once led to the decline of the music box. Until the 1960s, the Swiss couple Quito Rajk, the birthplace of music boxes, rediscovered their traditional family business. The Rajk company they founded is still the only company in the world that makes music boxes by hand ... The first 400-square-meter Shanghai Music Box Treasures Exhibition Hall (specific address: Shanghai Oriental Art Center) in China opened, displaying more than 200 classic music boxes of different ages and types carefully selected by Lanshan Music Box Museum in Kyoto.