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Hi music punchers!  Many thanks to Jorge Morales for producing the
blank template for the presumably very small number of punchers of
Sankyo 20-note paper strip music boxes like me and for making it
generously available in the MMD Archives 2005.07.10.03:
  http://mmd.foxtail.com/Archives/Digests/200507/2005.07.10.03.html

The transfer of pieces from my conventional paper strips to your system
printed with Corel Draw 12 worked most of the time very well.  Corel
Draw tools are also very exact and reliable for setting black dots for
punching.  In doing so directly repeated notes require very exact
punching without any tolerance.

However, I would like to recommend some small modifications of Jorge's
blank template:

1. In both systems the vertical scale for the pitch needs to be
arranged in the opposite order.  The lowest line should be assigned
to 5C and the highest line to 7A.

2. In the upper system (only there) all yellow marked lines are one
line to high.  They have to be set only one line lower, as it is
correctly done in the lower system.  The yellow lines mark the pitch
lines for the violin (G)-clef and bass (F)-clef with the connecting
assistance line for the note 6C.

3. In the blank paper strips, that I have been using so far, the main
distance between two dots of the same pitch is 8 mm.  I recommend this
somewhat wider distance because the 7.5 mm distance of the template
allows no tolerance in punching the holes.  With Corel Draw it is very
easy to spread the horizontal scale with the factor 1.07 to achieve the
more favourable distance of 8 mm.  Shortening thereby the disposable
length of music pieces is in my opinion acceptable.

4. Yet the thin dashed marker lines for cutting the two stripes could
be identified more easily when drawn as normal solid lines.

I already contacted Jorge directly for these desirable modifications in
his template.  He will do it as soon as he can and then publish in the
same way as done before in the MMD Archives.

Kind regards and a Happy New Mozart's Year,
Hans-Martin Meyer-Georges
Freinsheim, Palatinate, Germany