In 1796, the Geneva watchmaker Antoine Favre-Salomon invented a pocket watch with a mechanism to music.
Since then, he is considered the inventor of the music box, and the
village of Holy Cross became the world capital of mechanical music. It still produced the musical automata.
Welcome to the Land of Mechanical Dreams. With these words on a sign that Holy Cross welcomes its visitors. At the end of the 19th century, up to 600 workers and 40 companies produced mechanical singing birds and musical automata. Vaud town has become the capital of music boxes and mechanical music.
CIMA Museum, International Centre for Art Mechanics, is dedicated to this topic. It presents the history of mechanical music since the birds singing and music boxes to the cylinder phonograph invented by Thomas Edison. The museum is housed in the old buildings of the factory Paillard, most of the exhibits come from.
source: http://www.myswitzerland.com/fr/decouvrir_la_suisse/top_attractions.html
CIMA Museum, International Centre for Art Mechanics, is dedicated to this topic. It presents the history of mechanical music since the birds singing and music boxes to the cylinder phonograph invented by Thomas Edison. The museum is housed in the old buildings of the factory Paillard, most of the exhibits come from.
source: http://www.myswitzerland.com/fr/decouvrir_la_suisse/top_attractions.html
