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Building a Music Box
By Marc Kaufman

Someone wrote:

> >> If anyone here goes to Charles Hind's workshop on building new musical
> >> boxes, _please_ collect whatever material you can and post a full review
> >> of what he's been working on!
>
> Well, I'm still hoping someone here went to Charles' workshop and
> will tell us about it. I didn't run into any _known_ subscribers
> while I was at the mart, but I only attended the public mart this
> year, and it looked like most everything was winding down - some
> folks didn't even bother to stay set up for it, they were packing
> up and leaving just as the door opened to the public.
>
> regards,
> Larry Smith

Charles Hind has built a beautiful music box. The metal is georgeous, the wood box is full of inlay. This was his second(!) music box project. The first was a maniville (hand cranked). His design was conservative: three tunes with tooth tips 0.100" apart. Larger than average cylinder pins.

As for the mart: most everyone stayed for the public mart, the exception being Frank Metzger. His items tend to be very small, very fragile, and very expensive.

Don't I count as a known subscriber?

Marc Kaufman


(Message sent Sun 29 Oct 1995, 02:44:41 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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