Automatic punch process from Music Box files - I did it!
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 11:04 pm
Today my 'Auto Electric Powered 30 Note Music Box' arrived from China. I just mounted it on a little piece of wood as sounding body. This is my first play with this machine.
Arrangement taken from the Music Box Strips page (Danke Hans-Martin Meyer-Georges for all this nice tunes!) http://www.jellybiscuits.com/?page_id=763 and changed from 20 note to 30 note by me. Automatically punched out on 50 cm / 19.7 inch long paper strips. Taped together by hand.
I think the motor is a little noisy and the tone tongues make some funny noise sometimes - maybe I can tune this a little (are there any experts in tuning this machines?) but anyway it is awesome!
Because I have made a setup to produce such punch cards automatically from Music Box Composer files I would be happy to make some from your compositions and arrangements too! In the moment i only can produce 30 note cards but also could change the setup to other formats if needed.
Arrangement taken from the Music Box Strips page (Danke Hans-Martin Meyer-Georges for all this nice tunes!) http://www.jellybiscuits.com/?page_id=763 and changed from 20 note to 30 note by me. Automatically punched out on 50 cm / 19.7 inch long paper strips. Taped together by hand.
I think the motor is a little noisy and the tone tongues make some funny noise sometimes - maybe I can tune this a little (are there any experts in tuning this machines?) but anyway it is awesome!
Because I have made a setup to produce such punch cards automatically from Music Box Composer files I would be happy to make some from your compositions and arrangements too! In the moment i only can produce 30 note cards but also could change the setup to other formats if needed.