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A musical clock is a clock that marks the hours of the day with a musical tune played from a spiked cylinder either on bells, organ pipes, bellows, and for quartz clocks, using an electronic sound module.^[1]

One of the earliest known domestic musical clocks was constructed by Nicholas Vallin in 1598, and it currently resides in the British Museum in London.^[2]

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^ Laurie Penman (13 December 2013). The Clock Repairer's Handbook. Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated. pp. 313–. ISBN 978-1-62873-070-8. A clock that plays a melody at the hour is called a musical clock. Popular songs of the day often feature in musical clocks, and these may be used to date at least part of the mechanism.
^ Clerizo, Michael (27 November 2013), "Keeping Time", The Wall Street Journal, retrieved 20 July 2016

Ord-Hume, Arthur W. J. G. (1995). The Musical Clock: Musical & Automation Clocks and Watches. Ashbourne: Mayfield Books. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

v t e Mechanical musical instruments
Organs	Barrel organ Book music Dance organ Fairground organ
Brands	American Piano Company Disklavier Duo-Art Polyphon Regina Company Welte-Mignon
Pianos	Barrel piano Player piano Piano roll
Clocks	Automaton clock Cuckoo clock Musical clock
Other	AMICA Belloneon Book music Componium Music box CPE Bach works MBSI Polyphon Music roll Orchestrion Berry-Wood A.O.W. Panharmonicon Photoplayer

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