It is with great sadness that I have to report the passing of Luuk
Goldhoorn, a passionate collector and historian of musical boxes
about which he wrote many articles and a fine book.

His interest was not how expensive or large a musical box was, but
the story behind it was the most important for him.  It gave him great
pleasure to share that story with other collectors, and we can find
his writing in many of the well-known magazines.

He always wanted to see and check the original source himself and
that took much travel and detective work.  I remember the first time
I visited him back in 1979, he had copied everything the Dutch patent
office and national library had on the subject -- in my memory an
enormous stack of papers.  Now all that can be found easily on the
Internet, but in those days it was hard work behind microfilm viewers
and copying machines.

We all will miss his knowledge and I a long-time friend with which
I had many great musical box adventures.

Niko Wiegman
Netherlands