Today’s music box collectors are an Internet-savvy bunch, no matter what their age. Long gone are the days where you could list a small paragraph description of collectable music boxes on eBay and have them sell at maximum prices and minimum fuss. There have been so many eBay and collectable music boxes scams […]

Although music boxes have been around for a couple of hundred years, their basic charm has not been improved upon by advances in technology. Whether it’s a rolling cylinder and hammer mechanism kind of music box or disc music boxes, the devices for making music have not changed. Another good thing about them […]

There are a couple of different ways that a music box plays its whimsical chimes. The usual way is a cylinder roll that works very similarly to a wind-up clock. But if you flatten that cylinder out, and make the rolls look like little record albums, then you have disc music boxes. […]

They come in many sizes and many decorations but all piano music boxes are basically alike in that they are a functioning music box in the shape of a piano. In one sense, this is a delightfully humorous choice of shape for a music box, as pianos are musical instruments that can be very […]

When you look at a whole display case full of angel music boxes, two thoughts immediately strike you. The first is, “Who buys this stuff?” and the second is “What possible good can these things do?” Although it might sound incredible at first, when you stop to think about it, it all makes […]