The Music Box
Many years ago while rummaging through my great uncle’s attic in Lubbock I came across an advertisement championing the ultimate music machine….The Music Box, the common man’s instrument for those who love music. “Can’t play an instrument, but you can play a mean radio….The Music Box is your key to home entertainment.” Using 1880 pump organ stops on the front of an interactive workman's tool box, it plays 78 records through an early Victor reproducer running through 1920’s player piano tubing into a 1923 Atwater-Kent metal radio horn. All sound is through air, no electronic schematics.
Photo by Jendi Coursey
In a Private Collection
24” x 72” x 18”
