Vintage music box

This music box was an anniversary present to my grandmother and has been in the family for years. It looks like a miniature piano. It still works perfectly. Here I wind up the mechanism and then let it play until it stops on its own. Towards the end of the recording it gets so slow that you can hear each individual note. Key of E major.

Recording provided by f-r-a-g-i-l-e via Freesound.

This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds