The history of the development of mechanical music boxes can be traced back to the invention of the bells hung on church bell towers in the early 14th century. This musical instrument is played with a clockwork device and can emit a crystal-clear sound. The music was once popular in the Netherlands, Belgium and northern France. Since 1811, Switzerland has been the center of this craft. Like the Swiss watch industry, the two complement each other and have been famous and dominant in the world for a period of time.
After World War II, American soldiers brought exquisite music boxes to Japan, which greatly comforted a nation that was groaning in pain after the war. Japanese technicians learned from Swiss manufacturing technology. , and further updates were made, which reduced the cost of the music box a lot at that time and increased the output. Just as the Japanese watch industry rose rapidly after the war, the exquisite music boxes made in Japan beat the world. It has joined many manufacturers located in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland, and gradually formed a two-legged pattern with Switzerland's Regue and Japan's Sankyo dominating the global music box market.
This situation lasted until the 1990s. With China's reform and opening up, China's economy gradually integrated into the international society, and the global machining industry began to tilt toward China. The manufacturing of music boxes No exception.
In 1992, the birth of China's first musical instrument with independent intellectual property rights in Ningbo Yunsheng, China, marked China's all-round participation in the market competition of the huge cake of global music boxes. After more than ten years of hard work, Yunsheng has made more technical updates in the manufacturing technology of music instruments and obtained more than 50 invention patents in many countries and regions. This makes the music box have greater improvements in terms of sound quality, volume, composition, and appearance design. At present, Yunsheng Music Piano has occupied 1/4 of the global music piano market share, ranking second in the world after Japan's Sankyo.
The product development of music boxes for more than 300 years is also a historical testimony of the development of human civilization for more than 300 years. The shape of the music box in each different period can reflect the different social mentality and civilization development status of the time. It has also become a mirror of the times.
Nowadays, the manufacturing of music boxes follows tradition and combines modernity. It is increasingly becoming a way for people to collect a period of time, to collect a piece of emotion, or for the pursuit of music, or for the old times. For nostalgia, or for the beautification of the room, etc., it is pursued by many tasteful people.