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.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
May 4, 2007 08:00 AM
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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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20 note version
I haven't been able to track down the manufacturer though.
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I saw this on ThinkGeek.com Go over there to see a video of it in action.
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i found one that plays 2 and a half octives http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/info_96.html
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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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