music box
noun
: a container enclosing an apparatus that reproduces music mechanically when activated by a clockwork
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A couple renovating a 130-year-old home was delighted to discover a music box in the attic, although numerous commenters—drawing from various horror movies—joked that the couple was about to have bigger problems.
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Thomas Westerholm, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Finding new homes for these museum treasures, including diaries from Civil War soldiers, an 1821 Gutenberg printing press and a symphonion music box and cabinet from 1890 that still plays, is now the job of Executive Director Diane Gora and some eight volunteers.
—Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
At one point, the crew found a music box in a room that played one of the songs DeMonaco had been playing on set, which added to the place’s eerie quality — as did the short, gray winter days on which the movie shot.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 25 July 2025
Courtesy of Lionsgate The heartbroken little girl with the ballerina music box will grow up to be Ana de Armas’ Eve Macarro, a young woman bent on—what else?—avenging her father’s murder.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 June 2025
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Thomas Westerholm, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Finding new homes for these museum treasures, including diaries from Civil War soldiers, an 1821 Gutenberg printing press and a symphonion music box and cabinet from 1890 that still plays, is now the job of Executive Director Diane Gora and some eight volunteers.
—Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
At one point, the crew found a music box in a room that played one of the songs DeMonaco had been playing on set, which added to the place’s eerie quality — as did the short, gray winter days on which the movie shot.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 25 July 2025
Courtesy of Lionsgate The heartbroken little girl with the ballerina music box will grow up to be Ana de Armas’ Eve Macarro, a young woman bent on—what else?—avenging her father’s murder.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 June 2025
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“Music box.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/music%20box. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.
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