18 Note Music Box Soundbites

Music box Sound Bites of 18 note movements (mechanisms)

Soundbites of the most popular 18 note movements

Many of our customers have asked to hear some of the tunes that are placed in our music boxes. We have recorded the most popular melodies from our inventory of many hundreds. It may take a little while to download and was created without the aid of a professional sound person so please understand there maybe extraneous sounds or variances in the volume control; but, at least you will get a basic idea of what the music sounds like.

Some of the later additions are from the Nidec-Sankyo Tune List and they are note for note simulations (not the actual tonality) of the mechanisms themselves. In any case, we can assure you that any and all of the actual mechanisms installed in music boxes sound truly lovely in real life.

The size of the comb describes the mechanism. in this case, 18 prongs or 18 musical tones are available to play during the course of a melody. Contrary to what might come to the mind of a novice, these mechanisms do not just play 18 notes and then stop.
A 30 note movement with 30 prongs (or available tones) enables more musical embellishment and plays a bit longer. ....likewise a 36, 50 or 72 note movement would have a comb with 36, 50 or 72 prongs. A 2.50 note mechanism has 2 tunes and 50 notes. The 3.72 note movements have 3 separate tunes or 3 parts of the particular music and 72 notes.

Several of the following tunes were recorded from actual 1.18 note movements. ( 1 tune, 18 notes) Some new 1.22 note movements are available. Please let us know if you are interested. We stock 30 and 36 note mechanisms, 50 and 72 note mechanisms ( sometimes referred to as movements, tunes or melodies) and we have soundbite libraries (or pages on our website) for each category. The Orpheus tunes by Sankyo are not recorded from actual mechanisms but rather are computerized simulations of the exact notation.

TO HEAR the melodies, click on pink buttons * TO RETURN to main music box page, click HERE * TO ORDER from our complete movement page, click HERE


	18th Variation on a Theme of Paganini, (played in movie, Somewhere in Time)
	A Whole New World, (from the movie, Aladin)
	Adeste Fideles ( Oh Come All Ye Faithful)
	All I Ask of You (Phantom of the Opera)
	Aloha Oe
	Alouette
	Amazing Grace
	American Dream
	Anniversary Song ( begins...Oh how we danced)
	Anniversary Waltz (Sung by Connie Francis)
	Around the World in 80 Days
	As Time Goes By, from the movie, Casa Blanca
	Ave Maria by Schubert
	Battle Hymn of The Republic, (Glory Glory Hallelujah)
	Beautiful in My Eyes
	Beautiful Kahana
	Beauty And The Beast
	Beyond the Sea
	Blowing in the Wind
	Blue Danube part 1, Strauss
	Blue Danube Waltz part 2, Strauss
	Blue Hawaii
	Butterfly Kisses
	Candle in the Wind
	Canon in D
	Cantata 147 Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring
	Carmen Toreador Song
	Carolina on My Mind
	Carousel Waltz
	Clair de Lune, Debussy
	Climb Every Mountain (from Sound of Music, Rogers and Hammerstein)
	Crazy
	Danny Boy
	Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
	Desperado (The Eagles)
	Down by the Riverside
	Edelweiss, (from Sound of Music, Rogers and Hammerstein)
	Eine Kleine Nacht Music
	Favorite Things
	For He's A Jolly Good Fellow
	Four Seasons, Spring (Vivaldi)
	Frere Jacques
	From This Moment On (Shania Twain)
	Frosty The Snowman
	Fur Elise
	God Bless America
	Greensleeves, My Lady
	Harbor Lights
	Harry Potter Prologue
	Hatikvah (Die Moldau, Smetana) Israeli National Anthem
	Hava Nagila
	Hawaiian Wedding Song (There Is Love)
	Heart of My Heart
	Hedwig's Theme
	Holidays in Switzerland
	Humpty Dumpty
	Impossible Dream
	Irish Lullaby (Too Ra Loo Ra Loora)
	It's A Small World
	I Will Always Love You
	Jack and Jill
	Jingle Bells
	King of the Road
	Lara's Theme (from Dr. Zivago)
	Little Bo Peep
	Lord's Prayer
	Love Story
	Lullaby (Brahms)
	Lullaby (Mozart)
	Mademoiselle De Paris
	The Magic flute (Mozart)
	Ma'oz Tzur (Rock of Ages)
	Masquerade (from Phantom of the Opera)
	Memory (from Cats)
	Mountains of Mourne
	Music Box Dancer
	Music of the Night
	My Funny Valentine
	My Heart Will Go On
	My One True Friend
	Nocturne Op 9 No 2 Chopin
	O Christmas Tree
	Ode To Joy (Theme from Beethoven's 9th Symphony)
	O Du Froehliche (O Thou Joyful Day)
	Old Spinning Wheel
	One Moment in Time
	On the Street Where You Live
	Paddington Bear's Lullaby
	Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (opening segment)
	Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (middle segment)
	Pas De Deux (from Giselle)
	Pas De Deux (from Swan Lake)
	Polonaise (Til the End of Time - Chopin)
	Putting on the Ritz
	Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin)
	Rock a Bye Baby
	Rock of Ages (Christian Hymn)
	Russian Lullaby (Berlin)
	Shadow of your Smile
	Silent Night
	Silver Bells
	Someone to Watch over Me
	Somewhere Out There
	Somewhere over the Rainbow (Wizard of Oz)
	Somewhere (from West Side Story)
	Sound of Music
	Speak Softly Love (Theme from the Godfather)
	Spring Song (Mendelsohn)
	Swan Lake
	Take Me Home Country Roads
	That's What Friends Are For
	There is a Tavern in the Town
	Theme from the Thornbirds
	Tiny Bubbles
	To Life, To Life, L'Chaim
	Toy Symphony (Hadyn)
	Try to Remember
	Tulips in Amsterdam
	Unchained Melody
	Under The Sea
	Waltz of the Flowers (Nutcracker Suite)
	Wedding March ( Not... Here Comes the Bride)
	What a Wonderful World
	When You Wish Upon a Star
	Whistle While You Work
	Wind Beneath My Wings
	You Are My Sunshine
	You Are the Sunshine of My Life
	You Light Up My Life
	You've Got a Friend