No comments about Cylinder Musical Box Technology: Including Makers, Types, Dating and Music.

4 comments about The Musical Box: A Guide for Collectors : Including a Guide to Values.

1. Great reference book. Massive number of pictures, specs, histories, drawings and detailed information.



2. A wonderful book with great photographs and information.



3. As others have said, this profusely illustrated book tells you everything you might want to know about music boxes. As a beginning collector, I bought it to learn about the subject; steeling myself to deal with one of those dull scholarly tomes. I need not have worried. It is not only a technically rich resource, it is written with light-hearted style and grace and is a pleasure to read.



4. Ord-Hume presents an exhaustive work on the subject of music box collecting. This book has almost everything you need to know including identification of tune-sheets, manufacturers, music box styles and types. He includes a guide to values which is probably already out-dated, but it gives a good idea of what different boxes are worth.

   If you want to know what a rigid formation box is, it's in there. If you want to know the difference between a mandoline box and a organeoclide, you'll learn it there. It's an excellent reference book, and I even read it as I would a novel, it's that well presented.

No comments about Musical Box: A History and Collector's Guide.

1 comments about The Musical Box Handbook: Vol 1: Cylinder Boxes (2nd Edition).

1. 1. Acknowledgements
   2. Introduction to the Second Edition
   3. Introduction
   4. The Cylinder Musical Box
   5. Development
   6. Various Arrangements and Editions
   7. How to Choose a Musical Box
   8. Cleaning a Musical Box Movement
   9. Restoring a Musical Box Case
   10. Minor Adjustments and Repairs
   11. Redampering
   12. Replacing Broken Teeth and Tips
   13. Repinning a Musical Box Cylinder
   14. French Polishing
   15. Veneer, Marquetry, and Inlay
   16. Makers and Agents
   17. Index

No comments about Holiday Scroll saw Music Boxes.

1 comments about Making Marvelous Music Boxes.

1. This book is a very good teacher for making music boxes, whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or expert. It talks about the peices used for music boxes and has easy step-by-step instructions. The book has photographs and drawings for each music box, and also alternate ideas for each box. I recommend this book even if you don't want to make one because of the interesting facts and pictures.

4 comments about Custom Wooden Music Boxes for the Scroll Saw: The Berry Basket Collection Revised Edition.

1. Only the first 12 pages have details on building music boxes, the rest are all patterns. You also don't have a photo of each completed box. Some only are line drawings and the photos are the size of a quarter, up in the corner of the page.
   
   A good pattern book but not really for beginners. Page 188 is supposed to be the resources page with info on suppliers. It is an advertising page for the publisher in my copy.



2. Overall, beautiful fretwork patterns. Some instructions could be a little clearer. I was happy with my purchase.



3. Though the patterns seem daunting at first glance, once started they seem to go together well. I opted making a trinket box for my wife for Christmas rather than a music box, due to time constraints. Needless to say, she was extremely pleased, and was unable to see all my "minor" mistakes. Definitely not for the novice scroller - but that's just my opinion. Overall, a great book with some fascinating patterns.



4. Custom Wooden Music Boxes For The Scroll Saw is a pattern guide for intermediate to advanced woodworkers seeking to create intricate and beautiful wooden music boxes. A brief "getting started" section walks the reader through such woodworking and scroll saw techniques as cutting the frame, assembling turntable projects, applying the proper finish, and more. The bulk of Custom Wooden Music Boxes For The Scroll Saw is devoted to full-size patterns ideal for creating over 45 music box projects. Sample themes from the patterns include angels, horses, kids' music boxes, holiday music boxes, romantic music boxes, and Victorian music boxes. Each pattern has numerous notes, clarifying tips, and assembly suggestions. An excellent project manual for creating heartfelt keepsakes.

No comments about Ernst Holzweissg Nachf, Music Boxes and Automatons, 1898: Catalog Reprint Series.

2 comments about The Enchanted Ear: Lured into the Music Box Cosmos.

1. Larry Karp has presented for us beautifully many tales that many of us collectors go through regularly. While I consider myself an advanced collector, I still find that there is a lot to learn about collecting, and about musical boxes themselves. Well done, Larry.



2. This is a perfectly wonderful book filled with life and integrity. Larry Karp writes extrmely well and is able to convey his passion for music box collecting in a way that even noncollectors such as I can find extremely thrilling. How great that the book is now available in reprint. Anyone who is entertained by Dr. Karp's fiction--along with those who are not yet acquainted--will love this book. The book is simply for readers and humans.

No comments about Music boxes;: A guide for collectors.