Make your own mechanical music box

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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2007/05/04 @ 8:00 am
Category Music

Here’s a neat kit/music box guts so you can make your own -

Make your own music box melodies with this mechanical music box set. Comes with hand-cranked music box, one pre-punched music strip that plays the “Happy Birthday” song, 3 unpunched strips (48cm), a hole punch, and instruction manual to have you creating your own music box melody in minutes. 3″ long x 1″ wide.

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6 Responses to Make your own mechanical music box

wayn3 on May 4th, 2007 at 10:42 am said:

In a true Maker fashion, someone should make a solar robot that contains the music box and that crawls up and down a long hanging music strip.

Of course the music would have to be “The Itsy Bitsy Spider.”

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bluea on May 4th, 2007 at 11:32 am said:

20 note version

I haven’t been able to track down the manufacturer though.

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ZiggyStardustMD on May 5th, 2007 at 2:29 pm said:

I saw this on ThinkGeek.com Go over there to see a video of it in action.

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puddingpet on December 14th, 2007 at 5:07 pm said:

i found one that plays 2 and a half octives http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/info_96.html

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michael kambas on May 16th, 2009 at 3:08 pm said:

man, this is what i’ve always wanted to get my hands on and compose my own music box themes.

thank you, folks.
i appreciated Ziggy’s link. it’s alive and well.
here’s the exact url for this toy:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/8f7f/?cpg=ab
as of today, it was priced around $13, and the refill papers at around $5

happy melodies!

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backlinks on February 29th, 2012 at 7:18 pm said:

I like your style!

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