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Bought a Grand Illusions 30 note music box. Here are some major tips if you want it to work:
1. The notes printed on their strips of paper don't correspond to real notes in the real world. They actually say this in the description, but I forgot I read this and then spent days figuring out how their printed notes = real notes. Here's what they say "The notes that are marked on the paper strip, ie G, A, C, are NOT the notes that the music box actually plays, if you compare it with the notes on a piano. So the line marked F# on the music box plays back as a B, G# plays as a C#, etc."
2. If you have the same note repeated more than once (lets say your music has two A notes in a row), that means the prong that came up through the first hole will skip the second hole. It needs a certain width to work, so I found I needed to space the two holes out by one line. Punched hole, space, punched hole. So if you want your music accurate to some sort of tempo, you really need to space EVERYTHING out accordingly (like double spacing an entire paragraph).
Overall, the hardware was great though! Good paper, good machine.
Thanks for posting this, much appreciated. Do you think it would make sense to add an extra melody type, that would represent the real scale of 30 note music box? It seems like the most of these music boxes (if not all of them) have their real scale shifted with several tones comparing to the notes written on the paper strips.
I absolutely do! Since you're CREATE app specifically lists Grand Illusions as an export pdf option, it would be super helpful to have your pdf list the piano note (real world) next to their Grand Illusions note.
I wonder why they all do that?? Is there some alternate set of reality music scales out in the world....laugh, like the metric system vs the our weird standard system...
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Thanks for posting this, much appreciated. Do you think it would make sense to add an extra melody type, that would represent the real scale of 30 note music box? It seems like the most of these music boxes (if not all of them) have their real scale shifted with several tones comparing to the notes written on the paper strips.
I absolutely do! Since you're CREATE app specifically lists Grand Illusions as an export pdf option, it would be super helpful to have your pdf list the piano note (real world) next to their Grand Illusions note.
I wonder why they all do that?? Is there some alternate set of reality music scales out in the world....laugh, like the metric system vs the our weird standard system...
Yeah, who knows why. We've added an extra scale for 30 notes in F. Whenever you have time, please try it out and let us know what you think :)