We welcome you at Juke-Boxes.net for information on Juke Box. A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that can play specially selected songs from self-contained media. The traditional jukebox is rather large with a rounded top and has colored lighting going up the front of the machine on its vertical sides. The classic jukebox has buttons with letters and numbers on them that, when combined, are used to indicate a specific song from a particular record. The first jukeboxes were simply wooden boxes with coin slots and a few buttons. Over time they became more and more decorated, using color lights, rotating lights, chrome, bubble tubes, ceiling lamps, and other visual gimmicks.

Coin-operated music boxes and player pianos engraved out a place for automatic pay-per-tune music in fairgrounds, amusement parks and other public places a few decades before the introduction of reliable coin-operated phonographs. Some of these mechanical musical instruments were tremendously well built and have survived to this day in the hands of collectors and museums. But commercially they could not compete with the jukebox in the long run since they were limited to the instrument used in their construction, and could not reproduce the human voice. For more information on juke boxes do visit us at Juke-Boxes.net.