It's true! And if you've ever been in the same room as one of these music boxes, the actual acoustics haven't been replicated by digital versions either. You can "feel" these songs playing, which one more reason I love these things.

@@BenChurchill76 Playing on real vibraphone or glockenspiel is really really pleasant. Playing on electronic keyboard with numbering the voice of glockenspiel or vibraphone imitates the same sound but it can't beat the real vibraphone nor real vibraphone. Music-boxes helps to listen and practice to play melody on vibraphone or glockenspiel. In electronic keyboard built in demonstration songs helps us to listen and practice to play but it can't beat the real musical instruments.

Robert planquette is Norman of origin, like Walt Disney (his ancestors find their origins in Isigny-sur-Mer, Normandy. The Disney name comes from the title of "lords of Isigny"/"seigneurs D'Isigny" awarded in 1066 by William the Conqueror to Robert and Hugh Suhard, to thank them for helping him to conquer England that year. "Isigny" becomes definitely "Disney" in England). "We find the two lions (leopards/cats) of the Norman crest on the first amusement park open near Los Angeles" The castle of Sleeping Beauty Disneyland Paris is inspired by the silhouette of Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy. French and Norman greetings.

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