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Reuge Music Box Prices
By Harvey Chao

Being totally unfamiliar with current music box prices, but curious -

I was a Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco yesterday, and paused at
the San Francisco Music Box Shop's window to see what they offered.
One item was a Reuge music box with 4 interchangeable cylinders, each
cylinder perhaps 1 1/8 inches in diameter and perhaps 5-6 inches long.
The mechanism was installed in an inlaid gloss finished box with a
drawer that stored the spare cylinders.  The price was $5150.00 or
something quite close to that.  Was that a typical/fair price or was
it inflated for tourists?

Thanks and Best Wishes to all for a Happy New Year!
Harvey

 [ I spent a frustrating half hour in the same store last spring
 [ trying to get the sales clerk to be quiet long enough that I could
 [ listen to one tune from beginning to end without distraction.  The
 [ sales clerk kept trying to tell me how "beautiful" the box was.  I
 [ finally had to sternly ask her to be quiet.  It seemed hard for
 [ her to understand that a potential buyer might want to LISTEN
 [ carefully to an instrument as part of the evaluation process...
 [  -- Jody


(Message sent Thu 31 Dec 1998, 17:49:37 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

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