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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?
You're talking about music boxes that aren't custom right? The guide (https://musicboxmaniacs.com/news/music_box_guide) says that custom music boxes don't go over 30 notes. Even the 30 note models are starting to get less durable and harder to crank. This site seems more geared toward the custom ones. Sorry if you already knew all this.
Yeah I know, I just can't find any info about those luxury 72 and 144-note ones. Like I have two 30-note paper strips boxes already so I know about them but there's virtually no info about the range of 72-note ones, all what I found are youtube videos about how they play tunes. So I thought that maybe here I can find some people with the knowledge about 72-note boxes.
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You're talking about music boxes that aren't custom right? The guide (https://musicboxmaniacs.com/news/music_box_guide) says that custom music boxes don't go over 30 notes. Even the 30 note models are starting to get less durable and harder to crank. This site seems more geared toward the custom ones. Sorry if you already knew all this.
Yeah I know, I just can't find any info about those luxury 72 and 144-note ones. Like I have two 30-note paper strips boxes already so I know about them but there's virtually no info about the range of 72-note ones, all what I found are youtube videos about how they play tunes. So I thought that maybe here I can find some people with the knowledge about 72-note boxes.