Music Boxes

I have built a couple of music boxes around two different styles of works.  One was built around a worksmusicbox.gif (47950 bytes) made by Thorens in which you can insert various disks which are about 5 inches in diameter. This is nice because the variety of music is dependent on the number of disks you purchase.  Each disk is reasonable in cost or very cheap when compared to the purchase of a quality music box works which plays one or two tunes.  But, the quality of the sound from this works is not a crisp or a beautiful as a stand alone works.

The other box I made was built to house a 50 note works which plays two tunes.  The box, both open and closed, is shown to the right.  As it was for a gift, the inner part of the lid was inscribed with information about the woods used and the floral design on the top of the box. 

Movements of this type are available through Klockit at 1-800-556-2548 and also at other locations.

There is also an interesting musicbox site on the web available at:

Music Box Museum

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