Karl Petersen wrote:

> Please listen to the tunes and look at the pictures and let me know
> if anything rings a bell.

It appears that the box was restored.  I suspect that that means the
cylinder has been repinned.  Whoever did it used larger diameter wire
than the original; you have a lot of sideswiping from pins that are
in the next or previous track.  This produced the chirps, cracks, and
other minor blemishes.

I find the music hard to listen to for this reason, so none of the
tunes rang any mental bells.  This is, by the way, a normal restoration
practice, but when it causes side-swipes, more restorers do whatever
they need to do to eliminate them.

You also have a couple of bent pins -- there are dropped notes in
various places.

It might be possible to use pliers to squeeze every pin a bit to reduce
their width, but you would need strong pliers, long enough to give you
a lot of leverage, and steady hands.  These pins are very sturdy.  You
would also have to do virtually every pin in the cylinder.

Larry Smith