Hi!  Lately I've been fascinated by those do-it-yourself music boxes
with paper strips.  I bought a 15-note box from Kikkerland, and I
just wanted to let you know I've made a freeware tool to create more
paper strips for the 15-note music box, and it also works for the
20-note music box.  Thought you might be interested.  Screenshot at

  http://members.home.nl/bas.de.reuver/files/mpc2musicbox.png
 

Mario Paint Composer to Music Box:

  http://members.home.nl/bas.de.reuver/files/mpc2musicbox.zip 

Cheers,
Bas de Reuver
Netherlands

 [ Bas de Reuver designs freeware computer games.  He says about the
 [ paper strip tool, "Mario Paint Composer to Music Box is a freeware
 [ tool which converts song files into paper strips for music boxes like
 [ the DIY Music Box from Kikkerland or the Sankyo Seiki Organette."
 [
 [ Kikkerland, in New York City, was founded in 1992 by Jan Van Der Lande;
 [ visit http://www.kikkerland.com/  (Note: kikker is Dutch for "frog"!)
 [ -- Robbie