In the 971118 MMDigest, Bill Sheltmire asked: "Is it possible to
receive a list of music box manufacturers world wide ?"

Arthur Ord-Hume's recent Book The Musical Box (1995, Schiffer
Publishing), contains an Index of Makers, Inventors, and Patentees
which comprises Chapter 13 of the book.  While extensive, it is not
easy to identify the manufacturers that are still in business from this
list.

So here's a short list of some current musical box manufacturers with
links to home sites:

Porter Music Box Co., Randolph, VT  USA
  15-1/2" single, double and triple disc musical boxes
  http://www.forevertimeless.com/musicale/porterboxes.html
  http://www.forevertimeless.com/musicale/porterboxes.html</A>

Reuge Music, St Croix, Switzerland
  18, 36, 50, 72-note cylinder boxes; 4-1/2" and 11" disc boxes,
  singing birds, musical watches, musical rotating Xmas tree stand
  (like Eckardt's), musical novelties.
  http://www.reugemusic.com/cgi-bin/intershop.exe
  http://www.reugemusic.com/cgi-bin/intershop.exe</A>

Sankyo, Tokyo, Japan
  http://www.sankyo.com/">http://www.sankyo.com/">http://www.sankyo.com/</A>

Jeorg Wendel, MMM-GmbH, Ruedesheim, Germany
  23.5 cm disc musical box, incl. rotating Xmas tree stand, more...
  http://home.t-online.de/home/0672249217/zubeh.htm  [ materials ]
  http://home.t-online.de/home/mmm-gmbh
  email: mmm-gmbh@t-online.de

Who have I omitted?

Bill Wineburgh
http://members.aol.com/WWineburgh/musicbox.html