Music Box

The Music Box is a minor character in Disney's 1991 film Beauty and the Beast. Instead of a voice, he speaks through chiming musical notes. He makes a cameo in the film before the fight between the enchanted objects and the villagers. The Music Box was originally to appear in the film as Belle's best friend.

The character survived storyboard (alternate version of Human Again) and pencil animation (the deleted Be Our Guest number).

The original "cute" character of the movie was a music box, which was supposed to be a musical version of Dopey from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. But when the character Chip's role was expanded, the music box idea was scrapped. However the music box can be seen for a brief moment on a table next to Lumiere just before the fight between the enchanted objects and the villagers in the Beast's castle.