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28-426: Sally gets a surprise when her two favorite stuffed animals, Melody Mouse with lavender pink-colored body (dressed up as a purple and white ballerina) and Hum Bear with tan-colored body magically come to life and take her, along with her brother Jonathan and their dog Bingo to the magical Wee Sing Park for Sally's birthday party, where they meet a marching band. They sing and dance and learn how to conquer their fears when

56-739: A bell-like sound. The machines were often made in England, Italy, and the US, with additional disks made in Switzerland, Austria, and Prussia. Early "juke-box" pay versions of them existed in public places. Marsh's free Museum and curio shop in Long Beach, Washington (US) has several still-working versions of them on public display. The Musical Museum, Brentford , London has a number of machines. The Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey, USA has

84-401: A box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae ) of a steel comb . The popular device best known today as a "music box" developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and were originally called carillons à musique (French for "chimes of music"). Some of the more complex boxes also contain

112-416: A classic children's song with each of the intervals between them featuring an animated clip of Singaling (voiced by Mona Marshall) and Warbly (voiced by Penny Sweet). Anne Reeks of Entertainment Weekly reviewed the first six Wee Sing videos, giving them grades between A and C. Music box A music box ( American English ) or musical box ( British English ) is an automatic musical instrument in

140-530: A fuzzy baby sea otter with brown and tan -colored body. Along the way they encounter Weeber (also voiced by Patti Voglino), a lost penguin with black and light blue-colored body who misses his way back to the South Pole, take him back home, and help him be comfortable with his odd light blue color, which makes him different. This story also touches on the destructive effects of pollution. Wee Sing characters Punchinello, Sillywhim, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Weeber,

168-522: A journey through helping several very different locations. Along the route, their engineer friend, Tusky the Elephant (voiced by Adair Chappell), learns how to be careful and think things through. An ambitious young boy named Devin (played by Garrett Courtney) and his granny find an enchanted conch shell that takes them to the ocean floor where they encounter many undersea creatures, including an underwater jazz band and even Ottie (voiced by Patti Voglino),

196-609: A notable collection, including interactive exhibits. In addition to video and audio footage of each piece, the actual instruments are demonstrated for the public daily on a rotational basis. 9th century: In Baghdad , the Banū Mūsā brothers, a trio of Persian inventors , produced "the earliest known mechanical musical instrument", in this case a hydropowered organ which played interchangeable cylinders automatically, which they described in their Book of Ingenious Devices . According to Charles B. Fowler, this "cylinder with raised pins on

224-399: A pinned drum playing music not on bells but on tuned steel prongs arranged vertically. 1796: Antoine Favre-Salomon , a clockmaker from Geneva replaces the stack of bells by a comb with multiple pre-tuned metallic notes in order to reduce space. Together with a horizontally placed pinned barrel, this produces more varied and complex sounds. One of these first music boxes is now displayed at

252-526: A reward, they are invited to attend the Wee Sing Festival, and the singing rainbow is able to perform her special color song. This first video features 17 clips from different Wee Sing Videos that include an animal song with each of the intervals between them featuring an animated clip of Singaling (voiced by Mona Marshall ) and Warbly (voiced by Penny Sweet). This second and final video features 16 clips from different Wee Sing Videos that include

280-555: A set of twelve pieces on the signs of the zodiac , for twelve music boxes. Videos Tan (color) This is an accepted version of this page Tan is a pale tone of brown . The name is derived from tannum ( oak bark ) used in the tanning of leather . The first recorded use of tan as a color name in English was in the year 1590. Colors which are similar or may be considered synonymous to tan include: tawny , tenné , and fulvous . Displayed at right

308-409: A storm hits. Jack, Jill, Mary, and Little Boy Blue journey toward King Cole's palace to join him and his other subjects in celebrating 100 years of peace in the kingdom, bringing various gifts: a kitten, a pair of mittens, and a fuzzy blanket, among other things. The main message is that the best gifts come from the heart, but it also teaches the importance of helping others and using good manners. This

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336-407: A tiny drum and/or bells in addition to the metal comb. The Symphonium company started business in 1885 as the first manufacturers of disc-playing music boxes. Two of the founders of the company, Gustave Brachhausen and Paul Riessner, left to set up a new firm, Polyphon , in direct competition with their original business and their third partner, Oscar Paul Lochmann. Following the establishment of

364-614: Is that being different should never be a barrier to being friends. Just five days before Christmas , when Poofer the Elf tries to help his best friend Gusty the Elf, he gets lost and winds up in the home of the Smiths, a loving family, and meets their caroling neighbors as well. He and the Smiths journey to the North Pole in an effort to aid Gusty, who has grown unexceptionably clumsy. After the elves, and even Santa Claus himself wrestle with

392-558: Is the color Sandy tan . This color was formulated by Crayola in 2000 as a Crayola marker color. Displayed at right is the orangish tone of tan called tan since 1958 in Crayola crayons and 1990 in Crayola markers. Displayed at right is the color Windsor tan . The first recorded use of Windsor tan as a color name in English was in 1925. Displayed at right is the color Tuscan tan . The first recorded use of Tuscan tan as

420-587: The Shanghai Gallery of Antique Music Boxes and Automata in Pudong 's Oriental Art Center . 1877: Thomas Edison invents the phonograph , which has important consequences for the musical-box industry, especially around the end of the century. In 2010 American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny released the album Orchestrion on which he performed alongside a variety of custom-designed and built acoustic and electromechanical orchestrions which comprised

448-538: The Meecy Mice with light green , peach and light yellow -colored bodies arrive late because of their issues with Little Bunny Foo Foo with mauve -colored body who keeps bopping them on the head and making the Good Fairy so angry at him. How will they ever find out? Three children named Alex, Kelly, and Benji and their Auntie Annabella go to visit their Great Uncle Rubato in his Marvelous Musical Mansion where

476-675: The Original Musikwerke Paul Lochmann in 1900, the founding Symphonion business continued until 1909. According to the Victoria Museums in Australia, "The Symphonion is notable for the enormous diversity of types, styles, and models produced... No other disc-playing musical box exists in so many varieties. The company also pioneered the use of electric motors... the first model fitted with an electric motor being advertised in 1900. The company moved into

504-595: The Snoodle Doodles with red-orange -colored bodies, come to life, and they take her to a magical secret place called the Big Rock Candy Mountains with much food and fun, helping when her friends Debbie and Eric don't want to do what she wants to do. When they arrive there, Felicity Horse with light blue -colored body, Kaiso Cat with brown , dark red , and dark blue -colored body, Profster Owl with blue , purple , and pink -colored body, and

532-543: The Snoodle Doodles, and Trunky (originally Tusky) who are all seven from the earlier Wee Sing Videos, ride the Wee Sing Train to Singalingaland where Singaling the humanoid monster-like mascot with yellow-colored body (voiced by Mikey Moran) and Warbly the bird-like mascot with green-colored body (voiced by Maureen Robinson) are hosting a big musical party called "The Wee Sing Festival". Singalingaland also happens to be an extension of Tim and Annie's game board. However,

560-463: The issue, Susie realizes what's wrong - Gusty needs a new pair of glasses. This story encourages children to wear glasses (if they need them), but also has subtle messages about cultural diversity, helping others, the importance of working together, the importance of wearing a seat belt and helmet while traveling, and that an adoptive family can be as close and loving as any other. An imaginative young girl named Lisa waits until her two stuffed animals,

588-511: The main guest of honor (a singing rainbow , voiced by Diane Reynolds) is missing, so as each character performs his or her respective performance, Chugalong the Engine and Cubby the Caboose are sent to go look for her by asking a cirrus, stratus, cumulus cloud where she disappeared too. Eventually, she is found after Tim and Annie find her on their gameboard playing with their cat, Staccato, and as

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616-470: The music boxes come to life, the hat rack sings and dances, and the door knocker requires you to solve a riddle before you enter. However, in the darkness of the night, several small but important items vanish, requiring the children to locate the thief. Each segment teaches the viewer about musical theory or terminology. Two children named Casey and Carter are magically transported into the world of their red, orange , yellow, and green toy train set, and begin

644-474: The outside or what body type you have, you can always stay young at heart. Two children named Laurie and Scott, along with their dog Barney, magically enter their coloring book to help a woman named Sillywhim resolve the townspeople's differences. They encounter the four yellow Spurtlegurgles, the three blue Twirlypops, the two green Jingleheimers and three Fruggy Frogs, the family of red Bitty Booties and Purple Pasha and her menagerie. The primary message

672-594: The piano-orchestrion business and made both disc-operated and barrel-playing models, player-pianos, and phonographs." Meanwhile, Polyphon expanded to America, where Brachhausen established the Regina Company . Regina was a spectacular success. It eventually reinvented itself as a maker of vacuums and steam cleaners. In the heyday of the music box, some variations were as tall as a grandfather clock and all used interchangeable large disks to play different sets of tunes. These were spring-wound and driven and both had

700-630: The rest of the "band", playing music in real-time through the MIDI file format. In March 2016, the band Wintergatan released a video of their homemade Marble Machine which took 14 months to make and played in any key using a 3,000-piece wooden construction fueled by 2,000 marbles. Band member Martin Molin used a hand crank to mobilize the marbles, which then created various noises on a vibraphone and other installed musical elements. In 1974–1975, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen composed Tierkreis ,

728-476: The superstructure. The barrel can be programmed, as the pins can be separately placed in the holes provided on the surface of the barrel. 1665: Ahasuerus Fromanteel in London makes a table clock which has quarter striking and musical work on multiple bells operated by a pinned barrel. These barrels can be changed for those playing different tunes. 1772: A watch is made by one Ransonet at Nancy, France which has

756-415: The surface remained the basic device to produce and reproduce music mechanically until the second half of the nineteenth century." Early 13th century: In Flanders , an ingenious bell ringer invents a cylinder with pins which operates cams, which then hit the bells. 1598: Flemish clockmaker Nicholas Vallin produces a wall-mounted clock which has a pinned barrel playing on multiple tuned bells mounted in

784-472: Was the only Wee Sing video shot on film rather than videotape. A boy named Peter and his friends, David and Sara, visit his grandfather and discover his many toys (including Punchinello) and their secrets, all in the search of a missing music box key that he misplaced. When his grandfather leaves the room, David bumps into a music box which shrinks them, and the toys come to life. This story encourages children and adults alike that no matter how old you are on

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