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Unknown Cylinder Musical Box With Bells & Drum
By Scott Currier

I need help with the latest instrument to sneak into my shop.  It is
a 4-tune cylinder music box: a 9" cylinder with 3 bells and a brass
drum.  It was only a couple hundred at a local junk shop, so I brought
it home.

I know very little about cylinder music boxes other than they can be
identified by their tune sheet, but there doesn't seem to be much
publicly available info to assist with that.

This box has the bells and drum mounted below the mechanism, out of
sight which I found odd (why hide them?)  It runs well, but it does
have one broken tooth (any one know a good tech to help with that?
I generally do all my own work, but combs are beyond my comfort level).

I've put up a YouTube video of this box and in it you can see the tune
sheet.  (Sorry for the shaky video, I used my phone.)

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCWfEC9ffmU 

Any and all help identifying this box is greatly appreciated.

Scott Currier


(Message sent Thu 24 Sep 2015, 20:14:29 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

Key Words in Subject:  Bells, Box, Cylinder, Drum, Musical, Unknown

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