Reuge Music Box Prices
By Harvey Chao
Being totally unfamiliar with current music box prices, but curious -
I was a Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco yesterday, and paused at
the San Francisco Music Box Shop's window to see what they offered.
One item was a Reuge music box with 4 interchangeable cylinders, each
cylinder perhaps 1 1/8 inches in diameter and perhaps 5-6 inches long.
The mechanism was installed in an inlaid gloss finished box with a
drawer that stored the spare cylinders. The price was $5150.00 or
something quite close to that. Was that a typical/fair price or was
it inflated for tourists?
Thanks and Best Wishes to all for a Happy New Year!
Harvey
[ I spent a frustrating half hour in the same store last spring
[ trying to get the sales clerk to be quiet long enough that I could
[ listen to one tune from beginning to end without distraction. The
[ sales clerk kept trying to tell me how "beautiful" the box was. I
[ finally had to sternly ask her to be quiet. It seemed hard for
[ her to understand that a potential buyer might want to LISTEN
[ carefully to an instrument as part of the evaluation process...
[ -- Jody
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