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Re: Music Boxes
By Mark Kinsler

I have seen books on music box making, or at least articles.  What you need are clockmaking books.  The Cleveland Public Library, for example, has quite a number, as I suspect any large city library would.
  A lot of clocks had musical movements, and these are covered in great detail.  I distinctly remember seeing plans for the construction of a pin barrel, including the layout of the pins.
  Gear cutting, pivots, movement plate drilling, mainsprings, and all the other stuff is covered in regular clockmaking books.  These usually start with a chapter on which tools to buy and how to tell one sort of metal from another.
  The only problem that I found with the library books on clockmaking that I read was that many of them are from Britain and date from the 1920's.  This makes some of the terminology a bit obscure, sometimes. But they're fun to read and the principles are sound.
  S. LaRose and others will probably stock more recent books.

                             Mark Kinsler


(Message sent Sun 13 Aug 1995, 04:26:07 GMT, from time zone GMT.)

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