RESTORING MUSICAL BOXES
& MUSICAL CLOCKS


by Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume
Describes how to repair all types of cylinder and disk musical boxes, singing birds, also bell, organ and dulcimer musical clock mechanisms and their cases. There are details on how to repin cylinders, repair disc, re-cover bellows and make new organ pipes. Also learn the correct way to care for bells, and restring dulcimers &emdash; as well as many other restoration tasks, from replacing the massive drive springs to case repairs. Arranging music for mechanical musical instruments, repinning musical barrels, materials and tools. The text is accompanied by numerous superb line drawings and many photographs. A practical book with emphasis throughout on good conservation and restoration techniques. Musical theory and the principles of tuning appropriate to the restoration of mechanical musical instruments, and a glossary of mechanical and musical terms to enable the clockmaker to put new music on a cylinder.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Workshop Requirements & Skills
  • Restoring Cylinder Musical Boxes
  • Repinning Musical Box Cylinders
  • Restoring Disc-Playing Musical Boxes
  • Miniature Musical Movements & Singing Birds
  • Types of Musical Movement Found in Musical Clocks
  • Restoring the Carillon Movement in Clocks
  • Restoring Small Pipe Organs in Clocks
  • Restoring the Dulcimer Mechanism in Clocks
  • Restoring the Cases of Musical-boxes and Clocks
  • Documentation, Display, Demonstration & Conservation
  • Appendices
  • Glossary
    a Mechanical Musical Instruments & Their Components
    b Musical Theory
  • Music for the Musical Clock
  • Musical Theory and the Principles of Tuning
  • Suppliers of Restoration Materials
  • Disaster Survival & Emergency and Salvage Action
  • Bibliography
  • Index
The Author
Arthur Ord-Hume is an acknowledged authority and author on all aspects of mechanical music, who has advised on musical boxes and musical clocks to museums round the world. He is also the author of The Musical Clock.