Restoring Musical Boxes & Musical Clocks How to Book

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Brand New BookHard cover 7 ¼ X 10 Inches 368 Pages by Arthur WJG Ord-Hume Well Illustrated Musical boxes dating from the late eighteenth century, are fascinating and delicate instruments that preserve on their pinned cylinders music from a past age that may otherwise have been forgotten. Musical clocks, some of which date back to the sixteenth century, also perform music from another era, and both types of instrument suffer from wear and tear or damage.In particular, musical clocks may have had the music parts removed either due to owners becoming bored with the tunes, or the unfamiliarity of the mechanisms to the average clock repairer. Nowadays t is a growing interest in restoring these mechanisms to their original working state. This book describes how to repair and restore all types of musical boxes - both cylinder and disc-playing types as well as miniature musical movements and singing birds - and clocks that play music on bells, organs, or dulcimers. T are details on how to repin cylinders, repair discs, recover bellows and make new organ pipes. Learn the right way to care for bells, and restring dulcimers - as well as the many other restoration tasks involved, from replacing the massive driving springs to case repairs. The text is accompanied by numerous superb line illustrations (all specially drawn by the author for this read more

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