Description: Love music boxes but never seem to be able to find the song you really want? Look no further, with this mechanical music box set, you can create the music box you've always wanted. The music box is operated by hand crank as the music tape is feed through the music box movement. 20 blank paper tapes are included and a hole puncher in order to write your own music in minutes. Features: This music box movement and tapes set is great for making your own music box. Create your own musical melody by punching holes in the paper tapes provided and play any song you wish. The blank tape is used to compose music, and you can also make new tapes with thick paper. Write your musical note on the paper tape, and use the puncher to punch the holes. Put punched paper tape inside the music box movement and stir the shaft, then it can make sound. Specifications: Note: 15 Material: Zinc alloy, mental, paper Music Movement Size: 10 x 4.5 x 2cm / 3.9 x 1.8 x 0.8in Tapes Size: 48 x 4.1cm / 18.9 x 1.6in Instruction: 1, Use hole puncher to punch holes on paper tape to write music. Then inset the tape end with arrow mark into the music box movement. 2, Rotate the crank clockwise and you will hear the music a few seconds later. 3, When music is over, keep on rotating crank till paper tape comes out. Writing Music On Paper Tape: Tape ranges 50 beats or 100 half beats. Horizontal tap is sharp, longitudinal tap is half beats, two solid lines is a beat. The movement read notes through rotation of 15-pin shaft and make sound by moving soundboard. Within a circle of shaft rotation, if a sound of a pitch appears more than once (such as 11, two sounds are very close to each other, and on paper tape, 2 holes of C sound are punched on adjacent solid line and dotted line), the later sound will be ignored after first sound is read(adjacent 1/4 beat sound of the same pitch will also be ignored). Therefor, in some cheerful melody and chords, such as 15351535, the 5 repeats too much and the music might come out as 153153. You can try to recompose chord and melody. If there is no better recomposition, you should consider if to write it on tape. It allows 1/4 beat, and just punch hole in between solid line and dotted line. In a nutshell, the minimum note interval that movement can identify is half of the interval between solid line and dotted line. 15-note movement range is narrow, so consider first whether it is possible to write your favorite music on tape. An appropriate recomposition is ok if necessary. Note: 1. Fixed with 2 or 3 screws that are commonly used for toys or gifts with screw holes 2. Use a proper glue to fix. 3. Volume is small, it need to be fixed in an appropriate box or case to amplify the volume. Package Includes: 1 x Music Box Movement 1 x Hole Puncher 20 x Blank Paper Tapes