MUSIc HAPPENS to BE an ART FORM New Jersey Youth Njys

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[Music] it's a melody you usually hear when opening a music box the looping spellbinding sounds are being created by pianist and composer Phyllis Chen the toy piano it looks like a piano but on the inside instead of strings that are inside of a piano they're metal tines but it's all activated through a keyboard and so the keyboard is a little bit smaller than a full-size piano but it sounds like bells so the sound itself and it's out of tune and it's sort of made out of plastic all has this kind of unrefined quality and I think that's just part of the charm Chen is hoping others will also discover the unique charm through drawings as part of the music box workshop at the Bickford Theatre at the Morse Museum these little music box trips are a little bit like the player piano rolls where you have the holes that punch out and each hole that punches out becomes a note in music if you want to be very meticulous in exactly place notes by all means there's you can do that but also another way