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Steel for Making a Musical Movement Comb
By Nancy Fratti

[ Bernt Damm wrote in 100324 MMDigest:

> A whole lot of teeth are broken off and the rest is terribly
> out of tune.

Making a new comb or replacing a multitude of teeth for your
movement would be most tedious, time consuming and frustrating...
and how are you going to figure out the tuning?  I sell oil hardening
steel to make replacement teeth, if you want to try it.  I can talk
you through the tempering of the steel, etc.

A possible solution is to replace the movement.  I have some
new-old-stock gear driven 2-tune 28-note movements, where instead of
a spring barrel there is an extended cylinder shaft with a bevel gear
on it.  The gear is easily removed as it has set screws.  They are
$45.00 each plus postage.  There are two tune selections: "Third Man
Theme" plus another tune; "Vienna Blut" plus another tune (I don't know
the titles of the other tunes).

You might also find larger brand new movements from Don Caine
<mbrcu@aol.com.geentroep> or Tony Ciuffini (msi@dlsextreme.com.geentroep>
[delete ".geentroep" to reply].

Nancy Fratti - Nancy Fratti Music Boxes
Canastota, New York
http://www.nancyfrattimusicboxes.com/ 


(Message sent Thu 25 Mar 2010, 15:46:02 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

Key Words in Subject:  Comb, Making, Movement, Musical, Steel

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