Good for you Mary, I hope you will love your TMB!
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Site Owner
Those irritated by grain of sand best avoid beach.
-Strumelia proverb c.1990
This Tennessee Music Box is headed for Colorado
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Site Owner
Those irritated by grain of sand best avoid beach.
-Strumelia proverb c.1990
Eleven pounds, eleven ounces in the box. Probably 8 or 9 pounds? You can play it on your lap if you have a large lap.
Have you weighed it John? I'd be interested in knowing how heavy. I assume a box like that really needs to be placed on a table to play, right?
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Site Owner
Those irritated by grain of sand best avoid beach.
-Strumelia proverb c.1990
Thank you, Lisa! That's the effect I was trying to achieve. I raced through the construction, only to be stymied at the end by the string attachment to the screw eyes! And finding a box big enough to send it in!
I do love the look of that one in poplar, John! It looks very 'old traditional' for sure, especially with the tin overlays.
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Site Owner
Those irritated by grain of sand best avoid beach.
-Strumelia proverb c.1990
Robin Thompson:
Thanks, Robin! My customer must be a "patron of the arts", having bought 3 of my instruments now, and he may order more!
Doggone cool, John! The new owner is in for lots of fun playing this beauty!
Kusani:
That's a nice one! There aren't too many around.
Being from Tennessee I, also, just had to made a Tennessee Music Box. 
It was a fun project and have been asked to demo it on a few occasions.
Doggone cool, John! The new owner is in for lots of fun playing this beauty!
Looks nice John.
This is a just-completed, all-poplar, authentic Tennessee music box. Really heavily built, but it sounds great, nevertheless! It has an amber shellac finish, and etched metal nut and bridge plates. Tuners are screw eyes from the hardware store, and the frets are fence staples! That's the way it was done in 1885. Enjoy.
