Hello everyone, My name is Jerry Gilbert and I am 31 years old and
live in a small village called Fulbourn, about 5 miles south of
Cambridge UK. I am an unemployed bicycle repairer. I have been
totally blind since the age of 5.
I do not know much about mechanical music at all -- well, not yet.
My interest is in small musical boxes, and my reason for joining
the list is to find out the history of such boxes. So if anyone
can help I will be most grateful.
As you can tell from my request for information I am a complete novice
in this area and my interest really started a few weeks ago when my
partner Amelia mentioned that she had seen a beautiful music box on TV.
As it is her birthday in a few weeks time I decided that I would
look for a musical box of some sort as a present. I spent some time
searching shops but really only came across the very cheap plastic
mass-produced types. I finally came across a small jewelry box,
which I believe is made by a company called Reuge. I am now saving
my pennies.
I use the Web all the time but had not thought of the Internet as being
a place where I would find information about mechanical music, and the
MMD Web page was the first site that I found after using AltaVista
search engine and just entering "musical boxes"
Well, you all know a little about me now, so I will close by thanking
you all in advance for the help that I am sure you will all give me.
Jerry Gilbert
[ Welcome aboard, Jerry, and "Hi" to Amelia too. I'm still marveling
[ at how well the modern computer speaks to the blind, and I'm
[ trying to imagine the sounds which your synth-talker creates when
[ viewing a web site with lots of screaming adverts! Anyhow, our
[ music box experts will have suggestions for you, and I think the
[ history surrounding the music box will be a nice discussion thread.
[ Cherrio ! -- Robbie
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