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music box

a mechanical musical instrument consisting of a case containing a bar with tuned steel teeth that are struck by pins or projections so arranged on a revolving cylinder or disc as to produce a certain tune or tunes

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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