Category: Musics

Copyright 2006 Monique Hawkins

For the music box and antique collectors who are creative and love arts and crafts, making a music box of their own can be fairly easy and great fun. Here are simple directions to make an exquisite music box called “Peter Cottontail”. These unique directions are from Sharon Ganske’s book, “Making Marvelous Music Boxes”.

Material Needed

For the Base, Including Music Box Accessories: Round chipboard box, 2 high and 5″ diameter; Square of wood, 2 X 2 X ” thick; 18-note key-wind musical movement, including a magnetic swing arm Key extendeder; 3/8″ T-bar winding key “; 4 wooden beads, ”

Decorative Accessories for Music Box

3 prepainted resin bunny figurines, 2″; Prepainted resin Easter tree, 3 ” ; Round beveled mirror, 5″ diameter; “-wide pink braided net ribbon; 16″; 5″ wide floral-print ribbon, 24″

Acrylic Paint Colors

Ivory and Medium pink Adhesive and Spray Sealer:

Hot glue sticks; Industrial strength glue; Tacky glue Tacky glue; thin-bodied Matte spray sealer

Tools and Brushes

Drill with ” drill bit; Glue gun; Old paintbrush; ; Paintbrush; Scissors

Once you have gathered all of the above materials, it is time to start making your music box. Here are the directions to assemble it.

Step One: prepare the chipboard box. Since these boxes are sometimes flimsy, they must be reinforced with by placing hot glue around the inside bottom edge of the box (side and bottom) and them allowing it to harden. Next, just apply a heavy layer of Tacky glue to the inside sides of the box and let them dry.

Step Two: using a paintbrush, paint box and lid with the ivory acrylic paint. Paint the beads with medium pink.

Step Three: Cut one strip from the net ribbon, 15 ? X 2 “, and one 4 ” circle. Using the thin-bodied Tacky glue, laminate net ribbon strip to side of box, lining up top edge. Cut small notches to side of box, lining up top edge. Cut small notches in ” overhang, laminating to box bottom and making sure it is flat and smooth. Centering, laminate 4 ” circle to box bottom.

Step Four: Using your industrial strength glue, glue square of wood to inside center front of box bottom to which musical movement will be glued. Allow to dry.

Step Five: To mark the hole position for the winding-key shaft, place musical movement inside box at front center (seam is at back). Draw a line around the musical movement. Remove musical movement and place a dot of paint on winding-key shaft. Press the musical movement, winding-key shaft side down, back in the box. Remove the musical movement and drill a ” hole in box, centering winding-key shaft in the hole.

Step Six: Using the industrial strength glue, glue beads, evenly space, to the bottom of the box for legs. Glue the musical movement into the box, centering the winding-key shaft in the hole.

Step Seven: Using Tacky glue, glue the lid on the box. Glue the braided trim to the side of lid. Glue the magnet that comes with the musical movement to the bottom of the bunny that has been chosen to dance and twirl. Allow to dry.

Step eight: Wind the wind key extender onto the winding key. Wind the wind key extender onto the winding-key shaft so music can play. Place a bunny with magnet on top of the mirror. Place the tree at the center back of box and remaining bunnies on each side of the tree. Move the tree and bunnies so the dancing bunny does not bump into them. When they are in the right position, glue them on with a small amount of industrial-strength glue. Make sure excess glue does not seep from under the figurines and onto the mirror.

Making music boxes does not have to be difficult. With a little creativity and imagination, the music box and antique collector can create their own collection!

The accordion evolved from the 5,000-year-old Chinese mouth organ called the sheng, the first known instrument to use the free vibrating reed principle, which is the basis of the accordion’s sound production. There are several different accounts of how the sheng found its way to Europe and many conflicting versions of the history and evolution of the accordion. it’s well-known that the popularity of accordion music reached its peak in France before it spread to the rest of the world.
The accordion music that was almost synonymous with popular French music for at least 50 years, from the early 1900s throughout the 1950s.
Musette is the name of a goatskin bagpipe that was a popular music instrument in the Auvergne region of France during 19th century. When immigrants from this region came to Paris in search of work between 1800 and 1900, they brought their musettes with them. In the back rooms of these modest cafes and some auvergnat immigrants opened small shops selling coal and wine and, eventually, modest dance halls. Bal musettes was the common terminolgy used. On Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons, their patrons danced the traditional Auvergnat dance to the music of the musette.
During the latter part of the 19th century, Italian immigrant workers toting their accordions began flooding the capital of France. Paris 19th district where the Italians settled came alive with the sound of diatonic accordion music. At first, accordions were accepted into most musette music bands. Where the auvergnat and italian communities of paris gathered to dance to accordion and musette music and the bal musettes, which had been places where the musette instrument was played, had become establishments. The first joint musette and accordion music performance was in 1905.
However, with the appearance of the half-diatonic, half-chromatic accordion, the Italian accordionists tried to introduce new dances into the bal musettes, playing music that was outside of the realm of the musette,a few years later. With the appearance of the ahromatic accordion and this led to a serious conflict that was further aggravated?
The Italians left to play their accordions in different locations which they continued to call bal musettes. At these new bal musettes, the accordion was the principal instrument, accompanied by drums and the main dance was the waltz. Accordion music as well as the new bal musettes became popular quickly. And across the country,accordionists were playing in the streets and their music soon became the most popular in Paris. Accordions had become the preferred accompanying instrument of French singers as well ” and the musette accordion style, or music genre, was born.
The bal musettes re-opened with fervor after World War I, and musette accordion music continued to flourish in the period between the two World Wars. Many new bal musettes opened to cater to the masses in need of entertainment, and members of the upper classes would go to these places looking for adventure. Before the Second World War, certain enterprising dance establishments even organized fake police raids and gunshots for the benefit of these classy visitors.
The musette instrument has gained popularity over the musette accordion genre. In the 1930s, jazz penetrated into the musette accordion style and by the 1940s, it was common to hear the 2 styles intermixed. By the early 1950s, after the Manouche banjoists and guitarists had joined the musette accordion bands, accordion musette music had become the most popular French music of its day.
The deterioration of the musette accordion style happened when new genres such as rock, dance music, and disco appeared on the scene in the 1960s. This inspiring music genre is experiencing a revival both in france and across the world and howwever in the late 1980s and 1990s, popular music groups began to show interest in the musette accordion music.

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