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Muro Box-N40 (Chromatic Scale, F3-C7) is About to Be Born!

We are excited to announce that our closest partner Muro Box, who has a successful Kickstarter campaign that reached their funding goals in the first 2 hours!

Now, you can hear the live performance of your MBM melodies on a real mechanical music box, “Muro Box-N40” anytime, anywhere!

Check out their Kickstarter campaign page to hear the live performance of Muro Box-N40 by watching its live stream video. The instructions of online test playing N40 is under the section title “24hrs Open for Testing Online” in this story page of this Kickstarter campaign page.

Oct. 30, 2023, 5:21 p.m.

The must-read user guide for paper strip music boxes

We want to thank Hanneke Debie who wrote this extensive music box guide to include the most commonly asked questions about the paper strip music boxes, which are also known as “hand cranked music boxes” and “paper roll music box”.

In this guide, Hanneke tells us where you can find the paper strip music boxes, the types of them, how you can compose music for them and punch holes correctly, where to find melodies, how to repair the mechanical parts of the music box movement, and other tips and tricks learned from our MBM community. We would like to thank Hanneke Debie and other MBM members who have provided helpful resources to guide the newcomers of our community.

Aug. 10, 2021, 5:12 p.m.

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Creepy carillon melody from TV serie "From"

I tried to reproduce the music played by the cursed carillon from the season 2 of "From".
This is what I've done so far: https://musicboxmaniacs.com/explore/melody/unknown-artist-untitled_148602/

But I'm not entirely satisfied with the result... Could someone give me a clue or try to emprove this music maybe? I'm definetly not an expert ^^'

Thanks in advance!

0 comment posted by maxdb82 on March 8, 2025, 5:24 p.m.

Slipping Problem

Hi everyone! I have a problem with a 30 note music box. After a few uses of a strip it started to slip sometimes from the moving mechanism. Is this common with this type of music boxes? Do anyone have the same problem? Any solutions?

5 comment posted by angelo on Aug. 22, 2018, 11:57 a.m.

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