Music Box Pin Cylinder & Comb (2D)

Barrel

Rotation speed 0.50 rad/s

Comb size (tines)

Click / tap the barrel roll on the right to add or remove a pin on that track. Each row is one comb tine (pitch); the dashed line is the comb — a pin plucks its tine when it crosses it.

Readout

Tempo

4.8 RPM

Revolution

Active plucks

Pins placed

A real music box works the same way: pins fixed to a rotating brass cylinder lift and release the tines of a steel comb as it turns, one revolution = one melody loop.