The Graham Webb handbook on cylinder boxes, published in 1968,
gives instruction on cleaning a cylinder which is to scrub it
with metal polish.  Does that still hold today?

Alan Rigg, UK

 [ The MMD Archives offers these thoughtful recent articles:
 [
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/200306/2003.06.19.02.html
 [ Polishing a Brass Music Box Cylinder, by Craig Smith
 [
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/200501/2005.01.21.03.html
 [ Cleaning Musical Box Cylinders, by Eliyahu Shahar
 [
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/200501/2005.01.21.04.html
 [ Cleaning Musical Box Cylinders, by Craig Smith
 [
 [ Other articles about cleaning and polishing are indexed at
 [   http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/C/cleaning.html  and
 [   http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/P/polishing.html
 [
 [ -- Robbie