Ross Churchley

Ice cream music

One company makes the iconic music boxes

Most ice cream trucks in Canada and the United States use music boxes made by a single mom-and-pop company that can play 32 songs (two of which are The Entertainer).

Historically, ice cream truck music boxes were a sonic callback to late 19th-century ice cream parlors and soda fountains, which had coin-operated music boxes before phonographs were invented and jukeboxes could become a thing.