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Hey, one of my smallest gears broke on my 30 note, I have a replacement, but how do I safely dismantle it?

Hi where can i buy replacement gear for a 30 note music box, i had one of my gears teeth broken

The original MIDI file was in Eb minor, and I shift it into Bb minor with Sibelius, but when I created a piece of work on MUSCIBOXMANIACS importing the modified MIDI file, it changed into Eb minor, I want to how I can change the tonality correctly? I guess each note in modified MIDI file wasn't changed, I just changed the tonality of the MIDI, and the website just extracted the original pitch.

Somebody has made a fully functional MIDI controlled 30 note music box https://mitxela.com/projects/musicbox

Hello all. I am new to this site and decided to join due to my love of Music boxes and my recent desire to start creating them. Eventually Imma try and create cylinders due to their compactness however this is an obvious start point. I wanted to make a couple projects but both projects would close off the music box. Making it Impossible to Re-Feed the paper through when the song finishes. Im curious if anyone has found a way to circumvent having to re-feed. Or maybe theres a completely different way that I'm not thinking of? I'm sorry this post is slightly scattered but I appreciate any help you guys can give. Thank you.

So Im trying to create a music box I have no experience with music or anything else.
I only had one music box in my life and its sadly broken and I dont know if there exist modern job which repairs it.
so I decided I would recreate it in a better form.
I was thinking putting it in a wooden chest but the problem wouldnt that dampen the music?
Do you guys have any tip I would be really really thankfull

Hello all! :)

I hope this is the right place to post. Some upfront information:

This is the music box I have - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B8T2CWB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1
Here is a video of the problem in question - https://streamable.com/wj93m

I punched a few songs out, and have really been enjoying it. As of recently, it seems like the music box is tending to "skip" or "stutter" when playing songs. The gears will continue to move, but it appears that the paper stops moving for about half a second, then it picks back up. It's almost like it loses its "grip" on the paper (but I can't figure out why that would be)

Has anyone seen any similar issues to this? Anyone know what's going on?

Thanks :)

Anybody interest?

All the 30-note crank mechanisms for sale via the store link have plastic gears (and users complaining they break). Except ONE that has copper gears, but... it will not play what we compose/transcribe here, because it is not tuned c d g a b c d e f f# g g# a a# b c c# d d# e f f# g g# a a# b c d e... Identifying the right combo and adding a link to it would be a great help! Alternatively, could the "create" page allow to toggle between "c" and "f" options/tunings, as they seem to be called informally?

I want to make a music box for my friends B-Day. I found the notes here but I'm not sure which Notes / Music box (Kikkerland, grand illusion, wintergatan) I need.
It says: Type = Full range 60 But I don't know what this means and which box and notes are the right one.

It should be as similar to the example here as possible. Should I choose a different song? Or will it be possible

Can someone help me?
Thanks :)