A Music Box With A Very Modern Heart

A maker retrofitted a ballerina music box by replacing its metal comb with a microcontroller and audio system. Rather than simply playing back a recording, each original comb note was individually sampled, and the board recreates music box playback from a text-based score file. This allows the box to play extended and varied repertoires while preserving the authentic music box sound and the ballerina's mechanical movement.

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