1796, Antoine Fabres, a Swiss, developed a cylindrical music box, which is the oldest music box in the world. It is reported that the world's oldest music box is collected by Japan's "Lanshan Music Box Museum in Kyoto" and only publicly displayed in Shanghai for 1 year. The music box born in 1796 is so small, only about 10 cm high. Invented and produced by watchmaker Anto Fabres, it is actually a very practical and luxurious pure gold stamp, but there is a music box hidden at the bottom. When people turn the ring in the upper part of the stamp to wind it up, the switch on the base starts to play. Antoine Fabres' invention is to play music by plucking metal pieces with "cylinder device and adjusted metal comb teeth".

Music boxes were very expensive in the 18 and 19 centuries because of their exquisite craftsmanship. It is only circulated among nobles, and ordinary people look at the ocean and sigh.

Classification:

Disc music box: the disc rotates, and the protruding part behind the disc makes the claw wheel rotate. The claw wheel moves the comb teeth to play music, and the music can be changed just by changing the film.

Cylindrical music box: the cylinder rotates, and the comb teeth are played by needles installed on the cylinder. The oldest music box in the world is made according to this principle.