Möbius Strip Music Box

yes it must be art, if you take something simple and make it more complicated than it has to be.

More awesome, K!P, more awesome than it has to be.

:)

(damn engineering background)

I bought one of these hand crank music boxes for about $7, it came with paper strips that you punch out to create your songs. It looks like he is using the exact same one I have just mounted on the bottom of a tin can. I taped a few songs into loops because its easier than collecting your song after it goes through and refeeding it into the music box.

I didn't even think of trying a mobius strip, it seems like it would reverse the notes from top to bottom and beginning to end at various points.

Its hard to tell if that happens with the song he is using

The Mobius strip is a nice touch, but any old circular strip would work. Holes in paper are holes in paper.

Sorry to be a spoil sport.

Jill

@jill: you're wrong.

The second half of the song is the same as the first half with the scale inverted- the high notes become the low notes and vice versa.

The real art here is making both halves sound good.

Ok I get use of a mobius strip versus a loop....but where's the payoff....when I hear those tones something in me expects a jack-in-the-box to spring forth.