The development history of mechanical music boxes can be traced back to1early 4th century. The clock device hung on the church bell tower was invented. This kind of musical instrument, played with clockwork, can emit crystal clear music, which was once popular in Holland, Belgium and northern France. Switzerland has been the center of this technology since 18 1 1 years ago. Just like the Swiss watch industry, the two complement each other and dominate the world for some time.
After World War II, American soldiers brought the exquisite music box to Japan, which gave great comfort to this nation that groaned in pain after the war. Japanese technicians learned from Swiss manufacturing technology and made further updates, which reduced the cost of music boxes at that time and increased the output. Just as Japan's watch industry rose rapidly after the war, the exquisite music box made in Japan defeated many manufacturers located in Jura Mountain area of Switzerland on a global scale.
This situation continued until the 1990s. With China's reform and opening up, China's economy has gradually integrated into the international community, and the global machinery processing industry has begun to tilt towards China, and music box manufacturing is no exception.
1992, China's first musical instrument with independent intellectual property rights was born in Yun Sheng, Ningbo, China, marking China's all-round participation in the global market competition of the giant cake of music box. After more than ten years' efforts, Yun Sheng has made more technical updates in musical instrument manufacturing technology and obtained more than 50 invention patents from many countries and regions. This has greatly improved the sound quality, volume, composition and design of the music box. At present, Yun Sheng Bayinqin has occupied the global market share of Bayinqin14, ranking second in the world, second only to Japanese Sangong.
The product development of music box for more than 300 years is also the historical verification of the development of human civilization for more than 300 years. The shapes of music boxes in different periods can reflect the different social mentality and the present situation of civilization development at that time, and also become a mirror of the times.
Nowadays, the manufacture of music boxes, continuing the tradition and combining with modernity, is becoming the pursuit of many tasters, either for a period of time, for an emotion, for pursuing music, for nostalgia, or for beautifying the room, and so on.