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Hi all, I'm working on a birthday gift for my fiancé and need some help. I want to make a music box with a specific tune from his favorite game, and bought the Kikkerland 15-note kit. I have experience reading/writing music, but realized after the fact that the song has some parts that walk down chromatically for three notes, and I can't figure out if it's possible to make them work! Is there a way to fake/transcribe enough to get around the "no black keys on the piano" format of a 15-note, or should I upgrade to a 30 and try it there? Thank you!!

I've just completed what I believe to be the longest DIY music box ever made: all 6 minutes of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." (If anyone knows of a longer one, please let me know!)

Here's the full video of it being played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2MwA9bDR6k

And here's the chart (if you have a free month to punch all the holes!) https://musicboxmaniacs.com/explore/melody/queen-bohemian-rhapsody_60142/

What do the red crosses mean on downloaded music strips? are they wrong notes to be ignored or notes added after by the author?

How do you play the violin (classic example of very long notes)? do you play the note only once when the original starts or do you play it consecutively as long as the original note last?

My music box doesn't feed the paper through it. When I try to spin the gears, the gears spin but the music doesn't move. I've had this problem after I first got my 30 note music box, and my solution was to just kind of press down on the top spinning part of the music box a bit, but I'm sure that's not what I'm supposed to do. I first thought that maybe the gears were broken, but they were spinning fine. I then thought that the paper I was using was probably too thin, so I bought card stock instead. That worked for a little bit, until it didn't. I'm not sure what to do. Should I try to look for thicker paper, or modify my music box in some way? if anyone can lend me some advice, that would be much appreciated!

Anybody know how to remove the clear plastic case from an old Narco music box? A picture of it is here: [suspicious link]

I've got one attached upside down to the bottom of a ceramic figurine, and it's playing very slowly. I've seen how the governor can be adjusted to speed up a music box, and I wanted to try that, but I'm not sure how to open it up. I tried prying it lightly with a screwdriver, but it didn't budge, and I didn't want to push too hard for fear of breaking either the music box or the figurine.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Eric

Right now, all of them are messily spread out on my bookcase (lol) Does anyone have any good tips or tricks to store them?

Not the paper sheets, but the actual music box. The best thing I can think of is buying another music box from a different brand, but that's a bit pricey...

Like, what should you put it around if you do want a song to repeat on the music box? Thanks!

The highest note on my 30 note M4Music music box sometimes won't play, which is the A note (labeled as E on the sheet). I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong or if it's just the music box's fault itself, this never happens to any other note, and this isn't the case where I placed two eighth notes of the same note together, because all of my A notes are played as quarter notes. Not sure what to do about this, did I hole punch it too high or low or something?