Re: Music Boxes
By Mark Kinsler
I have seen books on music box making, or at least articles. What you need are clockmaking books. The Cleveland Public Library, for example, has quite a number, as I suspect any large city library would.
A lot of clocks had musical movements, and these are covered in great detail. I distinctly remember seeing plans for the construction of a pin barrel, including the layout of the pins.
Gear cutting, pivots, movement plate drilling, mainsprings, and all the other stuff is covered in regular clockmaking books. These usually start with a chapter on which tools to buy and how to tell one sort of metal from another.
The only problem that I found with the library books on clockmaking that I read was that many of them are from Britain and date from the 1920's. This makes some of the terminology a bit obscure, sometimes. But they're fun to read and the principles are sound.
S. LaRose and others will probably stock more recent books.
Mark Kinsler
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