Most of the antique Swiss cylinder music boxes he's seen haven't been cleaned or repaired since they were made, around 1815 to 1900, he said, so there is a wide range of problems your piece may have.

In “The Musical Box” (Schiffer, $79.95), Arthur Ord-Hume dates the peak of mechanical music boxes around 1851 into the first decades of the last century, peaking around 1900.

Music boxes are awesome little mechanical devices. These days, they even make some with slightly more modern tunes, like the Zelda and Star Wars themes. But they don’t have everything, of co… ...

The Muro Box is a music box with a programmable cylinder Instead of a fixed pattern of pins, Muro’s patented convertible cylinder features 20 stainless steel gears, to correspond with each tooth ...

This music box was made by an undetermined maker in St. Croix, Switzerland, around 1880-1890. It is a cylinder music box, serial #1531, with 8 tunes. This music box has a single-piece comb with 43 ...

In Ralph and Terry Kovel's 2007 price guide, they list an 1880 Paillard cylinder box in a rosewood case with three extra cylinders for $710, an 1895 Columbia model with 10 tunes at $1,568, and an ...

The music boxes themselves were not restricted to one tune alone, but can be found with as many as 12 tunes or ?Airs?, whereby the cylinder moves to the left or the right on a spring mechanism to ...

Music boxes playing flat disks, like the Symphonion, were more user-friendly and less expensive to produce than the cylinder music boxes. In both cases, the teeth of tuned metal combs are plucked ...

Europe began to see early music boxes appear in the 13th century. The classic pinned barrel of the music box as we know it came to light in approximately 1598, and they’re still made today.

Description This music box was made by an undetermined maker in St. Croix, Switzerland, around 1865-1875. It is a mandolin cylinder music box, with 6 tunes. The music box has a two-piece comb with 102 ...

The light twinkle of an old-fashioned cylinder music box evokes many things: nostalgia, childhood memories, sometimes even horror (they are a trope in scary movie soundtracks). Most music boxes play ...