A music box was a mechanical device that played a tune[1] via a winding mechanism or a turning handle.[5]
Description[]
When activated, a music box produced sound through the vibration of tiny metal pegs plucked by a mechanism.[1] In addition to their mechanical function, some music boxes were decorative works of art made from precious materials.[4][6]
Availability[]
A music box offered by the merchant, Galentha
Music boxes were sold throughout the Eastern Heartlands by Firestorm House of Ravens Bluff.[7] They also occasionally saw trade at the Menzoberranzan bazaar.[8]
In the Karsus Enclave of Netheril, House Implement Wholesalers produced enchanted music boxes that were sold throughout the empire.[9] The Behir's Nest in Khaerbaal was known for producing Halruaan music boxes.[10]
Notable Music Boxes[]
- Enchanted music boxes from House Implement Wholesalers contained 40 songs and could record additional songs played nearby.[9]
- An enchanted jewel-encrusted music box was displayed within the chamber of the wizard Julius at the abbey of Deneir near Myth Drannor.[11]
- Wythyndle's Round Book briefly saw use as a music box after the wizard, Noustlas Mnarrath, defenestrated the tome.[12]
- Halruaan music boxes were made from the teeth, bones, and entrails of behirs.[10]
- A pixie music box appeared to be an ordinary acorn shell. Once opened, the sound of pixies singing would keep wild beasts at bay for six hours.[13]
- A music box of sobriety played a tune that could relieve intoxication in just one minute.[14]
- A music box within Shagambi's coffin was rigged to activate nearby terracotta warriors if the coffin was opened.[15]
- An enchanted pentagonal music box possessed by an arcanaloth, Ygga Raxyg, played with the sound of five different instruments, each corresponding to a side of the box.[16]
- A music box was attached to the book called Shemshime's Bedtime Rhyme and could implant a cursed rhyme in the listener's mind.[17]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ari Levitch, Michele Carter (March 2021). “Shemshime's Bedtime Rhyme”. In Michele Carter ed. Candlekeep Mysteries (Wizards of the Coast), p. 68. ISBN 978-0-7869-6722-3.
- ↑ Eric Cagle, Jesse Decker, Jeff Quick, and James Wyatt (March 2003). Arms and Equipment Guide 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 22. ISBN 978-0-7869-2649-7.
- ↑ Christopher Perkins, et al. (September 2016). Storm King's Thunder. Edited by Kim Mohan, Michele Carter. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 171. ISBN 978-0-7869-6600-4.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Christopher Perkins, et al. (August 2013). Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 216. ISBN 978-0786965311.
- ↑ Larian Studios (October 2020). Designed by Swen Vincke, et al. Baldur's Gate III. Larian Studios.
- ↑ Christopher Perkins (November 2018). Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage. Edited by Jeremy Crawford. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 169. ISBN 978-0-7869-6626-4.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood (October 1998). The City of Ravens Bluff. Edited by John D. Rateliff. (TSR, Inc.), p. 77. ISBN 0-7869-1195-6.
- ↑ DreamForge Intertainment, Inc. (1994). Designed by John McGirk. Menzoberranzan. Strategic Simulations, Inc.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 slade, Jim Butler (October 1996). “The Winds of Netheril”. In Jim Butler ed. Netheril: Empire of Magic (TSR, Inc.), p. 101. ISBN 0-7869-0437-2.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Elaine Cunningham (April 2000). The Magehound. (Wizards of the Coast), chap. 7, p. 94. ISBN 978-0-7869-1561-3.
- ↑ J. Mark Bicking (May/June 1991). “'Til Death Do Us Part”. In Barbara G. Young ed. Dungeon #29 (TSR, Inc.) (29)., p. 57.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood and Doug Stewart (1997). Prayers from the Faithful. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 114–115. ISBN 0-7869-0682-0.
- ↑ Rodney Thompson, Claudio Pozas, Steve Townshend (2011). Player's Option: Heroes of the Feywild. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 134. ISBN 978-0786958368.
- ↑ Christopher Perkins, et al. (August 2013). Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 102. ISBN 978-0786965311.
- ↑ Christopher Perkins, Will Doyle, Steve Winter (September 19, 2017). Tomb of Annihilation. Edited by Michele Carter, Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 161. ISBN 978-0-7869-6610-3.
- ↑ Christopher Perkins, Will Doyle, Steve Winter (September 19, 2017). Tomb of Annihilation. Edited by Michele Carter, Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 188. ISBN 978-0-7869-6610-3.
- ↑ Ari Levitch, Michele Carter (March 2021). “Shemshime's Bedtime Rhyme”. In Michele Carter ed. Candlekeep Mysteries (Wizards of the Coast), p. 62. ISBN 978-0-7869-6722-3.