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Under the "Features" heading on the main page is something called "Shift, expand and narrow notes options". I can find nothing that describes these or how to use them, including in this forum. I am working on a large-scale project where I plan to cut tune sheets using a laser cutter which will allow me to create non-circular (oval or even rectangular) holes. The tune has several repeated eighth notes which may be problematic for proper repetition. Could a "narrow" note option (oval vs. round) be the solution for this? Where can I find the documentation of this feature?
I am new to music box and i would like to learn to make my own arrangements. As such, I am planning to get a 30 note music box, but i can see that there are two different kinds so which one should I get? What is the difference between the two, and which one would be better for reading sheet music and making own melodies?
Hello guys. I have a question for using the notes. I know that this notes are free to use in personal purpose, but can I use them for the commercial purpose? What procedures are needed to use it commercially?
Hi guys, I've been working the last few days making a midi file for the song Cariño by The Marias and converting it into the template, today I finally got my musicbox in the mail, I spent 8 hours writing notes, applying it to the music sheet, and punching the holes just for the intro to be good and the rest off key and terrible. This is an important project for me since when my girlfriend asked me to be her boyfriend, she gave me a music box, so for her birthday I wanted to make a custom music box with our song. The link to my template is here : https://musicboxmaniacs.com/explore/melody/carino-the-marias_123606/
And if it helps I bought the musicbox on Amazon and the specific one is here: https://a.co/d/d1JRqtJ
Any tips or help is greatly appreciated, thankyou.
I want to move the playback head so that I can preview the section that I am composing, without having to play from the beginning. The brief instruction says that you can move the playback head by right-clicking with the mouse. When I try this (using the Ctrl key on my Mac keyboard) I briefly see a drop-down menu that starts with "Set Playback Start" but when I try to select that and release the mouse, it just inserts a new note. How can I move the playback head without making a new note?
Two days ago I got my first paper strip music box, a 30-note one. I've been playing songs in it for the past few days and it functioned perfectly, no sign of damage to the gears which some recommendation pages for buying warned me about.
But just now I made the mistake of not checking the direction of the paper strip when I pulled it into the music box, and I put it in on the flat part at the end of the strip. It made a horrible noise of the notes all tuning at once and it got stuck, I couldn't pull out the strip by cranking, and in my panic, I yanked it out. I've tried to play a strip the correct way after that, and there are no notes missing from the song but the gears now are making this awful cranking noise. I've checked the comb and the spikes and they work correctly so I'm sure it's a problem with the gears.
I'm so upset about this because I was so excited about my music box, and also I need it for a school project soon, if anyone could give any advice it would be much appreciated.
Edit: I had my father look at the box, and he said that some of the gear's teeth are skipping, and If I crank the box more it could break, problem is a paper strip is in it because I was showing him the noise it made by playing a song and midway through he said I should stop cranking it. The problems now are: 1. Getting the paper strip out without cranking the mechanism 2. Dissasemble the gears (my dad says he could do it but he's never worked with music boxes before and h'es afraid that dismounting it could break it for good)
I would like to transfer 3 songs to a new music box for my beloved on her birthday next month. But I know nothing about music editions. How can I convert a song to MP3 and then adapt it for a music box?
Hello, I keep seeing music boxes like this: [suspicious link] online. They seem to have 72 teeth on the comb. But what exactly is their range? I am not a musician and spectrograms in Audacity taken from youtube videos aren't clear, but it seems like the lowest note should be C-3 or C#3 (for A-4 = 440 Hz). If so, they might be chromatic with 6 octaves range, so highest note would be B-8??? That's too crazy and practically useless, I have never seen a song going beyond B-7 for actual melodic notes (that's why most music trackers stop there).
Then there is 144-note music box... It seems that there is just two 72-note combs there, but for what? Like if they share the same notes, two combs allow maybe some kind of volume control? Or they are detuned a bit to make sound fuller?
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