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Musical Box Stalls At Heavy Chords
By Doug Wiggins

A 15" Imperial Symphonion disc music box, style 160, that I'm doing
for a client seems to have no stopwork.  This causes the disc to stall
at heavy chords and bang through them as it winds down rather than
just stopping cleanly before such cacophony occurs.  Am I missing
something?  Don't all boxes of this size have stop works?

Doug Wiggins
Arlington, Virginia
http://www.dougwiggins.com/ 
dougwiggins@gmail.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

 [ "Stop works are installed on a grandfather clock so the weights
 [ won't hit the seatboard when fully wound up.  They also prevent
 ] the cable from coming unhooked when the cables are fully let down."
 [ Ref. https://www.amazon.com/Adjust-Hermle-Kieninger-Thomas-Movements/dp/B00ZCZ5SDW 
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Tue 12 Nov 2019, 23:34:02 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  Box, Chords, Heavy, Musical, Stalls

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