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Cylinder Musical Boxes That Play Sacred Music
By Bill Wineburgh

Ref. Mark Singleton in 191029 MMD and Richard Dutton in 191030 MMD.

The possible mis-identification of tune 4 discussed in the previous
posts may be something that is more common than not on cylinder musical
boxes.  There are many instances where the person filling in the tune
names on a tune sheet gets the tune name or the composer wrong.

As an example, I have an Ami Rivenc Hymn box with a tune sheet that
identifies tune 1 as "Onward Christian Soldiers."  However, on playing
this tune it was obvious that it was not the right melody.  With some
sleuthing, I identified the tune as "Jesus, King of Glory" by Haydn
(1774), to which words were written by W. Hope Davidson in 1887, about
the time when the musical box was made.

Bill Wineburgh
Succasunna, New Jersey
http://antiquemusicbox.us/ 

 [ Ami Rivenc SN 38837 Tune Sheet
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/19/11/01/191101_205111_riven05.jpg 


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