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Seek Small Tuned Musical Box Combs
By John Farmer

I've just received the following e-mail from Felix Thorn --

  Hello,  I am looking for a set of miniature music box combs with
  a full octave of notes.  It appears that most small music boxes
  include only the notes used in the piece of music on the cylinder.
  I am building a piece of art and need around 20 of these combs.
  Do you have anything like this or know anyone else who does?

  Regards,
  Felix Thorn
  www.felixsmachines.com 
  felix.thorn@gmail.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

My only suggestions are that he either buys 20 small hand turned
movements and re-tunes the combs, or tries to find someone who can
make new combs for him, which might be expensive.  Does anyone have
other ideas?  (Have a look at his web site -- interesting.)

John Farmer, UK
http://www.musicanic.com/ 


(Message sent Thu 10 Sep 2009, 20:45:52 GMT, from time zone GMT+0100.)

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