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Re: Making new music box cylinders
By Peter Smakula

Robbie Rhodes wrote:

> To Larry Smith and Peter Smakula. I'm a bit perplexed -- what is
> really your goal: to make a cylinder of music or to develop brand-new
> techniques?

I think you caught the goals, but you mixed them up. I wish to make
a cylinder for an original song. I'm not picky about how or what it is
made of (yet) but I agree that a brass one is astetically pleasing,
especially since I plan for the movement to be viewed.
Larry was talking about some new technology of using an epoxy or
polymer to make cylinders and place pins in them by a different method
other than the traditional one.

Thank you for your offer to work up an estimate for drilling a
cylinder. Pondering this in my mind, I didn't think I could do it by
hand, and actually get very close. I'll take you up on your offer when
I actually figure out what the heck I'm doing.

PCS
Akron, oHIo


(Message sent Wed 9 Aug 1995, 16:43:34 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.)

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