Fisher-Price
By Karl Petersen
My wife Robin and I likewise bought one of these for our son, but we enjoyed the box more than anyone.
After trying to cast a duplicate disk and being troubled by the shrinkage in the epoxy casting, I machined a disk blank out of cast epoxy and pinned a tune. Schumann's piece emulating Chopin. It was pretty good but too short.
I decided a more rewarding exercise would be to attach set of pouches tracker to a decently large comb from an otherwise junk music box, and compose from a pneumatic organ keyboard and play from rolls. This was probably as complicated an idea now as it was then, but I have often imagined the possibility of obtaining hand-played music with the sounds of a fine music box, and playing from rolls is the next obvious step. I know none of us would be satisfied with an electronic emulation of the sound!
Karl
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