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The first model of the Classique 7800 'La Musicale' was released in 2010 and features a patented mechanism which plays a discreet and magical melody. Comparative to a music box the sound comes from a pinned disc playing on a tyne-d musical comb. The sound is also amplified by an innovation made of a hand-engraved metallic glass membrane placed under the movement.
The model presented here plays a melody composed by Giochino Rossini in 1817 - La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie).