Re: Mechanical Monstrosity
By Bob Conant
Jim,
>
> "Animated Victrola Music Box. This decorative music box plays an
> assortment of 15 different holiday carols as a reel of punched paper
> passes through the cogs and wheels of its player piano type musical
> mechanism.
> Plugs into household outlet...$129.95."
>
These machines are available right now at Sears for quite a bit less than the above price. The same company (something like Mr. Christmas) had one last year that was quite charming. It used the same continuous paper roll to play the 15 songs but it was shaped like Santa's house and workshop. Animated elves punched the holes and printed the music on the sheet and it then fed through Santa's player piano. It was very cute and I hunted one up to buy. Incidentally, according to the literature it actually uses the holes to operate something like starwheels to pluck a music box comb. I haven't taken it apart to see if this is true as it doesn't come apart easily. Last week, I saw this year's model at Sears and you are right. The general public may think it is cute but anyone interested in any form of automatic music will get ill just looking at it. I didn't and won't buy one.
Bob Conant
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