![]() Antique Mills "Dewey" slot machine |
![]() View into Large Cylinder "Orchestra" Box |
We have several styles, models and sizes of music boxes. Our largest is the 27" Regina Changer. Many people think of the thin tinkling of novelty type music boxes bought in card stores or bargain department stores when discussing music boxes. Patrons are surprised by the full, rich sounds of the antique music boxes, whose original owners depended on them for home music in the Victorian era. Some of the boxes use metal disks that are interchangeable to vary the music, much as today's record players and CD players do. Small projections in the disk trigger "star" wheels which in turn pluck the teeth of a metal "comb" to produce the music. |
One type of cylinder box is the Capital "Cuff" box made by
the F.G. Otto and Sons company. The Capital "Cuff" is so called by collectors
because of the resemblance of the thin cone shaped tune sheets to early shirt
cuffs worn by men in the 1800s. We have two outstanding examples of this kind of
box.