Curse you, historical accuracy!
I want to use a music box analogy in Spectacle, but I can't because such clockwork contraptions weren't invented for two more years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_box#History
D'oh!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
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Just edit the Wiki entry and the problem is solved. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!
Or, you can re-create history in your novel by having someone invent a prototype of the music box, which is then stolen by the evil count and hidden for two years until a poor but honest tradesman finds it and takes it to his friend Antoine Favre of Geneva in 1796. Fifteen years later, Antoine's cousin Etienne in Ste. Croix begins the commercial production phase. But it all began with that prototype, the secret history of which you can now reveal for the first time....
I did something similar in my latest novel (#4) in which the heroine discovers an unknown musical manuscript by Buxtehude (d. 1707) which was in the papers of an 18th-century American organist who had traveled to Lubeck. He bought a piece of fish for his dinner, and it came wrapped in the mss. (This actually used to happen, alas.) It turns out to be the first setting of a hymn tune that was published in 1741, the prior history of which was unknown, and causes great excitement in the musical world.
Well, why not? Who's to say these things didn't really happen after all?
AM: Lololol. This idea cracked me up.
BC: That would totally work, too! And you're right--you never know what might've happened.
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