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 The Musical Box Handbook: Cylinder Boxes / Vol 1.

No comments about Cylinder Musical Box Handbook.

2 comments about Music Boxes: The Collector's Guide to Selecting, Restoring, and Enjoying New and Vintage Music Boxes.

1. I collect antique music boxes and have several books on the subject. I would say that around 90% of this book is devoted to modern toys and there is mere lip service to the exquisite machines from which they were derived.

   I also found it personally insulting that he claims to include restoration. If I tried to restore a music box after his instructions I would end up with a pile of parts and their condition would be irreperable--more damage than help.




2. This book is not what I expected.The content is not very informative and it lacks any real knowledge of collecting 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.

No comments about Cylinder Musical Box Design and Repair.

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

No comments about A Family Concern (Unabridged).

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

No comments about Silver anniversary collection: Selected articles from the Bulletin.