Esoteric question: resources on music boxes?

[pehp]

This is a really out-of-left-field question, but I haven't come up with anything good yet, so I thought I would ask the Hive. ;) My son is REALLY interested in music boxes, how they work, how they are made. We found a couple of youtube videos, but they weren't stellar (he isn't interested in the large, disc boxes--but the small jewelry-type boxes). I checked How Things Work and didn't find anything. I feel a bit stumped. Anyone have any knowledge of where I could go to find a good resource on how music boxes are made/constructed? He is particularly interested in the innerworkings. (He already made a mock music box with K'nex today, and has drawn several more plans, but we haven't found a good detailed description of *what* everything is inside one.)

 

Thanks for any help you can give on this one!! :)

[Nan in Mass]

Perhaps he would like this:

 

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000HAUEFY/ref=asc_df_B000HAUEFY2389602?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=pg-1551-86-20&linkCode=asn&creative=395097&creativeASIN=B000HAUEFY

 

or this:

 

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FNKFI2/ref=asc_df_B007FNKFI22384660?smid=A2IRPKT7C7H9Z7&tag=pgmp-1603-97-20&linkCode=asn&creative=395109&creativeASIN=B007FNKFI2

 

Nan

[Arcadia]

This is the most detailed instruction I could find so far http://www.bettermus...nstructions.asp

 

As a kid, I had unscrew small music boxes (that my cousins don't mind me destroying) and reverse

 

engineered those.

 

ETA:

This page does not have instructions but have a nice history and explanation of music boxes

[helena]

Perhaps he would like this:

 

http://www.amazon.co...ASIN=B000HAUEFY

 

or this:

 

http://www.amazon.co...ASIN=B007FNKFI2

 

Nan

 

 

What a cool project that first link is!!

Hmmm... think I might have to buy it.

[thebacabunch]

Oh my, I think I found my next cool thing I have to have. This will have to be a simple machine we make for physics in a few years :laugh: