Sound Box with bells and butterfly hammers.

Sound Box with holed disk in cardboard.

Sound box with automatic token disk.

Singing Birds Sound Box – Late 1800s The invention of singing birds traces back to 1780, when the Swiss brothers Jaquet-Droz built the first Musical Cages with mechanical birds that seemed to fly while singing. Musical cages were an alternative to the “serinette”, the sound box used until the 17th century to teach melodies to canaries (serins in...

Phonograph around 1880.

Gem phonograph T. A. Edison early 1900.

Phonograph late 1800.

Phonograph early 1900.

Phonographs accessories. The Dictaphone differs from normal recorders for certain features that make it easier to use, for example, when dictating the recording can be remotely started and stopped from the microphone, it can be wound back and listened to. It is the forerunner of the modern tape recorder.

Dictaphone - late 1800.

Dictaphone late 1800.

Gramophone with wax cylinder.

Gramophone 1925 / 1930.

Gramophone 1925 - 1930.

Pathè Clock around 1910. The “Reproducing” model even managed to reproduce the exact touch of a pianist. Greatest success was found in the USA where around 4 million examples were produced.