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Hi, I just recently purchased the 15 tone kinderland music box as a gift and printed a couple of music sheets from this website. I noticed the width of these printed strips are slightly smaller than the music sheets that came with the music box. I exported as a4 and printed at officeworks. The issue im having is that sometimes my sheets get misaligned while cranking and notes are off. Has anyone else had this issue and could suggest a solution?

Happy Holidays everyone! I'm giving my mom a DIY music box for Christmas, along with 20-30 songs. I'm looking for ideas on how to store the strips so they're protected AND easily accessible. How do YOU store your music strips? Thanks!

After disassembling it to clean its parts and putting it back together afterwards, my music box makes a buzzing sound now whenever it plays notes. I think it might be coming from the comb...? Does anyone know what this is and how to fix it?

Does anyone know a place to order pre-punched paper tape for these music boxes?

I am interested in ordering some songs already made on paper.

I am brand new to this. I found a song on the website that I like and want to buy a player. Is there a way to pay someone to punch the tape for you?

Been thinking some, like adding more options like adding Triplet notes, or rasgueado.. What do you guys think?

I am using a Kikkerland 15 and the strips that come with them. Rather, I'm on my third K15 because I keep stripping out the small gear. I'm preparing some strips to go with the box as a Christmas present and some are running longer than the ~13 measures on the printed strips. That's where I ran into trouble - I know now not to overlap the two strips, because that's the place where the gears jammed on my second K15. But how best to connect them? I'm afraid of even using too much tape and I really don't want to ruin this box too.

For future melodies - because eventually I'll run out of the strips I have - I have some 110-lb (199 gsm) cardstock. Is that too thick? Not thick enough?

I have really enjoyed this project - using some existing melodies here on the site, but also charting other songs, transposing, fitting to the two octaves of the K15, and turning into a real physical thing. Thanks for this lovely community.

Hi all!

Recently I re-discovered the world of DIY music boxes on YouTube, but this time I got really interested on the exact engineering standing behind the music. I was unable to find anything related to this topic so went ahead and ordered 2 music boxes for myself to play with, but while waiting for delivery I thought that I will ask a question here :)

So - do you know about any reliable resources to try getting familiar with inner mechanism of paper fed music boxes? How pins on shaft operates separately and hits comb with enough force to make a sound (I suspect some spring mechanism winding up with crank movement)?

Thanks for helping with this ;)

Make sure to check out my video game theme melody! Pretty short, but super happy!


https://musicboxmaniacs.com/explore/melody/video-game-theme_69666/


:)

Found this website while googling music boxs and i was suprised to notice that here is something like this.
You all are awesome people. Keep it up. In summer probably going to buy stuff from here and lot of paper to try out to make songs.