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Make your own mechanical music box

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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.

Mechanical Music Box Set - [via] Link.

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Posted by: wayn3 on May 4, 2007 at 10:42 AM

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."

Posted by: bluea on May 4, 2007 at 11:32 AM

20 note version

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

Posted by: ZiggyStardustMD on May 5, 2007 at 2:29 PM

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

Posted by: puddingpet on December 14, 2007 at 5:07 PM

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

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