Thursday, July 2, 2026

Tiny Dancer

 

No one can tell me the exact number of winds on a music box will get me to exactly the last note of the tune.  Here’s the thing, when ever I ask, I get the same response…  “Why do you want to know?”

 

Besides that, the odds of two music boxes being the same must be astronomical.  So even if this box took 21 winds to reach the exact last note, the box next to it might be completely different and take 18 or 41.

 

I believe what is happening here is that I am having one of those thoughts that isn’t going to go anywhere.  I just ask the question, and it gets left hanging out in space forever.

 

Someday, maybe years from now, someone will be sitting around at a party, and the topic of music boxes will come up.  Back against the wall, over there, somebody will recall that I asked the question years ago on my Blog.

 

“What did he say about it?”

 

“Nothing.  He just left it hanging there.”

 

“Sounds like him.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 comment:

Pauline said...

I tried to open an old music box with a new key. I tried a C key on the cylinder, but I still had treble. I think it’s time to think outside the music box.