Mechanical Music Digest  Archives
You Are Not Logged In Login/Get New Account
Please Log In. Accounts are free!
Logged In users are granted additional features including a more current version of the Archives and a simplified process for submitting articles.
Home Archives Calendar Gallery Store Links Info

End-of-Year Fundraising Drive In Progress. Please visit our home page to see this and other announcements: https://www.mmdigest.com     Thank you. --Jody

MMD > Archives > January 1998 > 1998.01.04 > 04Prev  Next


Custom Music Box Tunes
By Beatrice Robertson

Reuge music in Ste. Croix, Switzerland, has the computer setup to
arrange and pin any tune, and can promise a very quick turn-around
time.  However, then the fun begins.

I don't remember what the minimum order was, but it was substantial, and
in general, only 18-note movements were readily available, because they
are automatically (robotically) made.  The larger movements are still
pinned from drum patterns (or were in summer 1996.)

I'm sure that the capability is there to make the patterns for the
larger movements, but that is not how it was being done.  The Japanese,
and now Chinese manufacturers of small musical movements have the same
capabilities, but I suspect that large minimum orders or very high
costs were be the norm.  Nancy Fratti, do you have prices on custom
tunes?

Beatrice Robertson


(Message sent Sun 4 Jan 1998, 12:10:04 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

Key Words in Subject:  Box, Custom, Music, Tunes

Home    Archives    Calendar    Gallery    Store    Links    Info   


Enter text below to search the MMD Website with Google



CONTACT FORM: Click HERE to write to the editor, or to post a message about Mechanical Musical Instruments to the MMD

Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are those of the individual authors and may not represent those of the editors. Compilation copyright 1995-2024 by Jody Kravitz.

Please read our Republication Policy before copying information from or creating links to this web site.

Click HERE to contact the webmaster regarding problems with the website.

Please support publication of the MMD by donating online

Please Support Publication of the MMD with your Generous Donation

Pay via PayPal

No PayPal account required

                                     
Translate This Page