When Hanneke from the Netherlands first heard the antique music box at her grandmother’s home, the rich sound that filled the room left a deep impression on her during her childhood. When she was 10 years old, she received a paper strip music box as her birthday gift. Since then, she has been collecting various paper strips and continuously composing on them.
When Hanneke first purchased the Muro Box-N20 in 2022, she began converting songs into MIDI files and contributed one melody after another to the Muro Box app’s music library, sharing her work with music box enthusiasts worldwide. This included the very first paper stripe melody she bought with her own money as a child—Brahms’ “Guten Abend Gute Nacht”.
When the N40 music box launched its first crowdfunding in 2023, she bought both N40 Sublime and N40 Standard models at once. The demo melody, Aquarium from The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns, featured on the Muro Box website’s live stream model, is one of her brilliant pieces.
She also shared her reason for opting to own both N40 modeles:
“The reason is that some songs sound better on the one, and some on the other. Let’s take classical music for example; many of these pieces benefit from a more grandiose reverberating sound. Many of those pieces were made for an orchestra after all, and having extra body in its sound is great!
But I also have some melodies that are simpler, like childhood songs. On the sublime harmony version they still sound nice, but kind of overdone and overwrought. The standard N40 version leans more towards a simple music box sound, and suits those songs better.“
She even wrote a special article for a British music box newsletter, introducing the Muro Box from a user’s perspective and sharing her hands-on experience with readers.
Here is her article:
https://murobox.com/en/turning-my-collection-of-paper-strip-music-box-melodies-into-my-muro-box-library-en/
