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"Mr. Christmas" Music Box
By Jim Canavan

I found my "Holiday Symphonium" music box at Lowe's Home Center in
Alexandria, Virginia.  I had called the store the day before and asked
if they carried it; the sales clerk said they had Mr. Christmas items,
but he had never heard or seen the one I was describing.

On a whim, I went the next day anyway and, lo and behold, there was one
left!  It has the 16 plastic Christmas tunes, and doesn't sound half
bad, especially since it doesn't have the loud motor noise of the paper
roll one I bought last year.  It was priced at $70.

Later that day, I saw one in a local mall's Christmas store (the kind
that are only open during the holiday season), and it was priced at
$199!  I also saw it for sale on-line at http://www.icelebrate.com/ ,
priced at $100, "on sale from $149."  Both of these were identical in
case style to the one I purchased at Lowe's.

Jim Canavan
Alexandria, VA
http://members.aol.com/vapianola


(Message sent Tue 14 Dec 1999, 19:53:55 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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