For nearly five decades, Henry Childs has been bringing tunes back to music boxes dating from as far back as the 18th century. This career started when he picked one up at an antique show – events ...

Rancho Palos Verdes resident Robin Biggins is a tinkerer. But not with fixing up old cars or reviving someone’s old washing machine. Biggins is a master mechanic who repairs antique automatons and ...

A few weeks ago, while visiting a friend, I was treated to the sounds of a record containing music taped from a barrel organ and a music box, titled "The Road to Heaven -- Mechanical Music for a ...

It was more than 40 years ago that Peter Fritsch first became fascinated with antique music boxes. The now-retired Reading art teacher was in ninth grade. His teacher, Eleanor Bieber, set a brown, ...

We did not always have electronics to give us our music. And at one time, our music was not nearly as portable as it is today. Mike Stevens traveled the Pennsylvania Road to Wayne County to listen to ...

Automata are windup dolls that move in time to a score generated by a hidden music box. "Mephistopheles" is one made in France during the late 1800s and can be found at Morris Museum in Morristown, ...