Well, why else would I want to buy a music box? Then I saw a review, there I saw the mechanism - the puzzle came together and here it is on my table in a cute box.
It was possible to buy a ready-made design on Aliexpress, but then a toad woke up and began to choke me. Give more than 3 USD for a music box? If only it was made of gold and diamonds ( ok, cubic zirconia)...
It was decided to buy a musical mechanism and make the box ourselves.
Cost at the time of purchase: 2.9 USD
The mechanism was packaged in such a way that I thought at first that the seller had made a mistake and sent me the music box already in some kind of case. But when I unwrapped the package, it turned out that the bulk of it was packaging material. For what? ATTENTION: so that the cardboard box with the bow does not get wrinkled.
The mechanism itself is metal - it is unlikely that anything will happen to it, even if you step on it. Even the protruding part of the handle is very durable.
Everything is extremely simple. We take the mechanism, select or make the box ourselves, install the mechanism into the box with bolts... STOP! Where are the promised bolts?
I remembered about the bolts a week later, when I again went to look at the seller’s product description. In the photographs it has a mechanism with 3 bolts for fastening, but I received it without them. Where are my bolts???
I had to stick it to the bottom of the box with double-sided tape. And because my husband had a period called: " What else could be glued together with two-phase glue?", then the mechanism was placed on it for reliability. Is there a lot of glue left? It doesn’t matter... now we’ll seal the box tightly!
On my question: " Why did you seal the box itself?“There was no answer, the husband just shrugged his shoulders and smiled. I had to sigh languidly, shake my head and test the mechanism in action in the new case from the old Rocket watch.
I had to make a hole in the box for the pen. The Chinese Dremel easily coped with this task ( review will be). But why the husband needed to make a second hole again remained a mystery. The sound was exactly the same without it.
DESCRIPTION.
The mechanism and body are metal except for the plastic gears and inner drum. The knob rotates in both directions, but the sound only gives the correct direction.
Mechanism size 4.4 x 3.4 x 2 cm + rotating handle.
The pen has a movable tip for easy rotation.
The seller sent the order in random order and out of 6 melodies I got drum 002B with music - “Swan Lake Finale”.
There is a possibility that you can ask the seller to send a specific drum, but for this you need to know all their numbers and sounds. I was pleased with the seller's choice.
The sound will be loud if the mechanism is installed on a hard surface. In the box the sound is doubled. If you play a music box in the kitchen, you can hear it even in the room.
The melody is pleasant, I only noticed one fib at the end, but maybe that’s how it should be. The faster you turn the handle, the faster the melody plays and vice versa: the slower you turn, the slower the drum rotates.
FOR A CHILD.
I bought the mechanism for various reasons:
- I wanted to.
- Child development.
What can a child’s music box mechanism develop:
- Logic and intelligence - where and how to turn to make the melody sound.
- Hearing - pleasant melodies with the right notes.
- The feeling of beauty - Swan Lake and the music from it are classics.
- Fine motor skills - the handle is small and you need to hold it firmly with your fingers.
- Sense of tact (rhythm) - rotating faster or slower sets the tempo.
- Fantasy, imagination - if you make the body together.
CONCLUSION.
I was pleased with the mechanism and the child liked the music box. I don't mind the money spent. There was an idea to make a music box in the style of decorating with pasta and cereals, coffee beans, quilling or appliqués...
When I calmed down my raging imagination, I realized that the child would not let the design last long and the most reasonable option for a music box would be a tightly sealed square watch box.
I wish you happy shopping!
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Our little princess, my beloved niece, is approaching her first birthday. For her mother’s (my little sister’s) birthday in February, the children broke our baby’s favorite musical toy, a glass ball with teddy bears. And I didn’t let the musical mechanism be thrown out of it with the expectation that I would come up with something. And so I decided to make a box. Girls love boxes. I'm a girl myself and I know :) While our Sonechka is little, mom will collect the girls' favorite treasures in the form of beads, rings and bracelets.
One of my hobbies is handmade boxes, and over the long time that I have been doing this, I have already accumulated a lot of all sorts of materials.
So. We need a tin of cookies or sweets. You can also just buy a tin can. You can now find any jars in craft stores. I found tin cans in a tea and coffee store. Just banks. But this time I got a cookie jar from the Spartak confectionery factory. She's big. The diameter is 22 cm, and the height is 7.5 cm.
Metal putty, acrylic primer, acrylic varnish, PVA glue, brushes, decoupage rice card with notes (the rice card can be replaced with a decoupage napkin), scissors, musical mechanism. We also need a glue gun and a glue stick. I love working with rice pads and cards. Under the influence of glue they do not tear or deform. And they have a pleasant texture to the touch. Everything else will be selected as we go. Sometimes at the very beginning I don’t know what the result will be. That is, usually at the very beginning there is some theory, but very often during the work something changes.
But my bank has one significant drawback. The surface of the lid is not smooth. There are cookies squeezed out on it. So I took automotive metal putty and smoothed the whole thing out. There are no photos of the process, since there was no one to take photographs, and besides, the putty smells extremely strong and unpleasant. When the putty has dried, it needs to be sanded. I deliberately did not sand it to perfect evenness and smoothness.
Then we cover our entire future box with primer in one, or better yet, two layers. The second layer is applied only after the first layer has dried thoroughly. I think there is no need to explain why soil is needed.
So everything dried up. It's our napkin's turn. First we glue the lid. We remember labor lessons in elementary school. Cut out a circle with a diameter equal to the diameter of the top of the lid plus the height of the lid plus a couple of centimeters just in case. Apply glue to the lid with a brush and carefully place our circle on the top of the lid, leveling it so that there are no wrinkles. Very carefully so as not to tear. Unfortunately, there are no photos of the process, since there was no one to take photographs. We have leveled it on the top part, now we take the lid in our hands and carefully, moistening it in glue, use a brush to glue the card to the side walls of the lid. In the same way we paste over the lower part of our future box. It's easier here. You need a strip with the height from the stop rim to the bottom plus the height to the bottom. I have plus 5 mm to the main length. And a circle. We put our box on the map and outline it with a pencil. Let it dry.
It took me several hours to dry. The glue must be completely dry before applying varnish. Otherwise the varnish will stick to your hands. I bought wood varnish at a hardware store. Special varnishes for decoupage have failed me more than once. They are expensive and stick to your hands in the finished product. So I went and bought varnish at a hardware store. I don't like gloss, so when choosing a varnish, I settled on a varnish that has a matte surface.
This means that the next step will be to apply varnish. The varnish must be applied strictly according to the instructions. In two layers. Dry each layer thoroughly.
Here you go. Dried. Now the fun begins. At the very beginning, I forgot to make a hole for the musical mechanism, so I had to make the hole after applying the varnish. Make the hole very carefully. I neglected safety precautions and drove a screwdriver into my finger directly into the vein. Having filled the hole with peroxide and with difficulty stopping the bleeding, I began to attach the musical mechanism. Due to the fact that I was slightly injured, I forgot to take a photo of this process. Then it turned out that the key that a watchmaker I knew had picked up for me was very large and ugly. And then, with the help of my charm, I persuaded a turner I knew to make me a small key made of brass. Here he is handsome.
So. Now let's start working on the interior "decoration". First of all, you need to finish the walls, bottom and hide the mechanism. We take cardboard and cut out the parts. Somewhere a long time ago I dug up a very cool compressed cardboard 3 mm thick. From it I cut out parts that will hide the mechanism. The bottom and sides were cut out of cardboard with a density of 300 g/m2. We cut out the same parts only with an allowance from velvet. Here are the details. Take a glue stick and velvet. I really like gluing fabric to cardboard with a glue stick. I buy expensive pencils from Kohinoor or Erich Krause. But now, as luck would have it, I couldn’t find either one and again bought the most expensive glue stick from a German manufacturer at a hardware store. I took it at my own peril and risk, but it paid off. So, we apply glue to the cardboard and apply velvet. Let it dry and glue the seams. Something like this.
Sidewall
This is a box for the mechanism
back side
Donyshko
Using a glue gun, secure the velvet parts inside the box. Here it is in finished form.
Next we make a drawer for small items. Initially, I wanted to make a box that would be like a continuation of the box for the mechanism. But when I tried everything on, I realized that it turned out to be some kind of garbage and decided to make the drawer separately. I cut out a sector of the circle (lid) and a wall from thick cardboard. I glued them together at a distance of 4 mm from each other so that the structure bends. I trimmed the velvet along the edge. I sewed the edges of the velvet with a thread and a needle. And she secured everything inside the box. Everything seemed pale to me, so I used a glue gun to secure brown satin cord along the joints. The beads act as a stopper to prevent the lid from falling through.
We paste on both sides. Bends.
Sewing the edges
I looked at the result and decided to add another compartment. And to make it interesting (I’m making a box for a girl), instead of a lid I made an imitation of a bag that is tied with a satin cord. Everything is attached with a glue gun. Here you go. It seems like nothing is wrong.
Now with a bag
Now you need to decorate the outside of the box. I honestly and for a long time and in different places looked for the braid that I needed, but I couldn’t find it. And so I bought what I had to make something that would suit me. Organza ribbon, satin cord and velvet strip. I took an organza ribbon and ironed it with adhesive tape to glue the velvet strip onto it. I glued all this beauty to the box with a glue gun. Something is missing. Pale. Then I used a glue gun to glue the satin cord along the edge of the velvet ribbon. I made a bow from velvet and organza ribbon and attached it next to the key. This way I hid the junction of the braid and hid the key a little.
I came across interesting things from AliExpress on the lifehacker website. Namely, a mechanism for a music box. And without thinking twice I ordered this gadget for myself :)
I was very interested in this position because since childhood I loved to watch in films how the characters played a melody from boxes. I like the tone of such melodies, the rhythm and everything like that.
The idea itself is extremely simple. You can make any box with your own hands and insert the mechanism into it, you will get an original thing. But since my hands grow from the wrong place, I just like to listen to this melody without external embellishments. By the way, Castle in the Sky Theme Song is playing here. I don’t know where it’s from or who the author is, but I like it :)
The parcel arrived for about a month. Stopped tracking after crossing the border. Apparently the Chinese saved on a normal track code. Anyway. 
Packed in a regular bag and thin foam. No pimples :( 
They also promised 4 screws, but there were only 2 in the package, but these are minor quibbles.
Dimensions 5 cm by 4.5 by 2 Everything is connected on one frame. 
The sounds are produced by plates of different lengths that are caught by a small drum with protrusions in certain places. The Chinese love to have such drums for different songs, and it would be interesting to rearrange them depending on the mood. 
Everything is driven by a spring, which is wound with a special key. There is nothing extra nanotechnological here :) To make the melody play more smoothly, there is a braking roller. 
If you hold the mechanism in your hand, the sound is very quiet, but on the table you can hear everything perfectly. 
The seller promises 500 repetitions of playbacks, in the future we will see how this mechanism behaves.
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In the music box, almost at the very bottom, moments of long-gone days are quietly sleeping. The once popular accessory is now gathering dust in museums or on mezzanines filled with all sorts of rubbish. It might have continued to be this way if the designers had not decided to revive the music box, making it a real luxury item. We'll talk about the brightest examples in our review.
Starting from November, all the country's screens are filled with a cheerful Santa Claus with a bottle of Coca-Cola in his hands. From year to year, advertising practically does not change, so the main character becomes almost family, and in the supermarket the hand itself reaches for the fizzy drink. Now it has migrated to the lid of the music box. This Santa Claus, of course, won’t bring Coca-Cola, but he will delight you with music.
The main thing is a roof over your head. As it turned out, this truth is relevant not only for people, but also for music boxes.
This music box is made to order. The designer not only chooses the melody the client likes, but also creates portrait figures of the birthday person or members of the client’s family.
Music box in the form of a medallion, stylized in antique style. Designers claim that with one such gift you can win a girl’s heart.
If the capricious charmer remains indifferent to the singing heart, you can try giving her a music box in the form of a carousel. Just first you should ask: does the girl like music or is the best gift for her in the jewelry department?
What progress has come! Manufacturers have come up with a music box for the iPad. To activate it, you need to download a special application to your iPad, and you can enjoy the melodies.
A music box created specifically for the anniversary of the Beatles. However, the lid of the product speaks volumes about this. As for the repertoire of the box, it consists exclusively of songs of the legendary group.
Children will definitely like this box. The designers periodically change the main characters of the box. One thing remains unchanged - the nature of the product.
A music box for those who write music. Create melodies, record them on a special card and enjoy the results.
Designers suggest creating such a box with songs yourself: paint it in your favorite color, add all kinds of figures, inscriptions and give it to a loved one. After all, the best gifts, as you know, are made with your own hands. If you can’t make a music box yourself, you can give it to the birthday boy. We are sure that anyone will like such a gift.
To do this you will need the following materials and tools
Saw in the form of a belt for the machine;
- Grinding machine;
- Electric drill
- Milling cutter
- Cekovka
- Music: (whichever you like).
Additional materials:
Toy wooden xylophone;
- Remains of wood, preferably a fruit tree or nut;
- Means for gluing rubber and wood products;
- Threaded screws for fixing drywall;
- Dowel rod;
- Metal washers corresponding to the axles;
- Beeswax with orange oil.
Before drilling holes, you need to turn the surface of the cylinder into a stave; to do this, draw lines one after another along the entire circumference, and 4 lines perpendicularly. Install the drum into the frame to make it easier to determine the center axis.
Here you will need a sheet of plywood. Make gears using a computer program, print them, glue them to wood material and cut them with a saw on a machine. If the material is made of fibers of alternating directions, this will provide good strength.
2. Make hammers
For the hammers you will also need wood material, the length of which must correspond to the xylophone.
It is necessary to make guides. To do this, use the link under the photo to the Inkscape file, print it and glue it to the guides. For the cams, take 3 mm birch plywood; for the hammers and axles, use cherry scraps 1 cm wide.
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3. Other details
You will need a base to support the instrument, and ensure the notes are played clearly by using a hammer drum to prevent them from bouncing. For the drive, make a lever handle.
4. Ready-made musical homemade product
Pay attention to the miraculous effect of beeswax (see before and after photos).
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