There is a great music box museum, right near the Rhine in Germany, that includes a
preserved workshop of one of the German master musicbox makers.  Apparently this guy
could read music and push pins very rapidly.

In his old house, they have a large number of original boxes from hand-held to
concert size.  Most of them work and they play a lot of them on the tour through the
building.

The house also happens to be attached to a a kind of worship area/church that dates
back to the Knights Templar, if I remember correctly.  Anyway you get to see it with
some of their memorabilia.  I guess they had some good metalsmiths too.

If anyone is interested, I can probably scare up some more info.

Best,

Mike Rehmus