Music Box Stories - Muro Box Real Customer Testimonials
Welcome to read our global customers' stories and listen to their favorite melodies.
My husband collected 14 songs that are special to us, and burned them onto a CD as a gift for me when I was 18 years old. I would like to use the last song on the CD, Stars of Perseverance, to express my gratitude for being together all this time.
I have known my husband for 13 years, then we got married and had a baby together. I want to commemorate this love and cherishment along the way, so I found Muro Box to help arrange a song called “I Only Care About You”, and engraved my husband’s word of encouragement “You Make My Every Day Count!” on the music box. I am thankful that this music box can bring back our loving memories and to continue our commitment for each other.
My name is Eugene Kazantsev and I am a professional music box composer. For the last 4 years, I have created more than 1000 custom music box melodies for different types of music box mechanisms. I have recorded and produced original music box melodies, popular song covers, and have created notation for DIY paper strip music boxes, MIDI and audio music box versions for people all over the entire world.
I’m happy to be one of the first composers working with Muro Box and always happy to work on creating new melodies.
My name is Jay E, I’m a diamond/multi-platinum and award-winning music producer from Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. I have a few music boxes here in the studio that I would use to sample because I like the sound.
I think everyone knows the sound of a music box, it’s a sound that everyone can relate to, but a traditional music box isn’t flexible. I couldn’t play the melodies I was hearing in my head with a traditional music box. Having a Muro Box is handy, and makes my job in the studio way easier, because I can play exactly what I am hearing.
Wei Wei, a live streamer from Singapore, came across Muro Box while looking for unique products in Taiwan, and decided to host a special webcast – sharing emotional stories with live music box performances!
In the live broadcast, the music arranger, Ms. Liu, used the Muro Box to present the fans’ requested songs with their shared stories. The magic of the music box aroused everyone’s memories. The participants in the webcast empathized with other people’s stories and eyes well up with tears.
Such a special experience also made Wei Wei change from a purchasing agent to a buyer. Let’s see what kind of stories and melodies resonate with everyone!
“I will use the Muro Box to compose more melodies for my wife!”
Mr. Wang said.
Mr. Wang’s hobby was to arrange music with paper strips for his hand-cranked music boxes. When he purchased a Muro Box music box and arranged music with the Muro Box APP, instantly saved a lot of time and effort rather than punching repeatedly on the paper strips like he did in the past. He is now able to have more time to spend with his wife and enjoy the music that he arranged for the Muro Box music box to play for them.
“Muro Box is not just a music box to me, it is more like a small piano player. I highly recommend it to everyone!” said Mr. Wang.
My dad purchased the Muro Box for me as a wedding present for my wedding in June 2019. The Muro Box came ready to play “You’ll Be in My Heart” by Phil Collins, our special song since I was a little girl. He would always play Phil Collins’ CD in the car; my dad, sister, and I would sing along, driving with the windows down in the summertime. We had every word memorized!
I’m Dr. Feng, the inventor of Muro Box.
In the mid-October, my cohort told me that our advisor, Wendi, would attend the alumni gathering of University of Rochester (UofR). Although I have left the US for years, most of my lab mates are still in the Bay Area.
I wished that I could be there with them when reading their group discussion about how to drive there, and everyone was looking forward to this gathering.
Then, I came up with an alternative way to join their gathering. I made a proposal that we send a Muro Box to our advisor. I engraved our university’s logo and our lab’s abbreviation “WCNG” (Wireless Communication and Networking Group) on the metal plate of the Muro Box.
My cohort agreed unanimously on the proposed idea.
Recently, there are several caring and passionate volunteers about to leave the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where I belonged. I admire and appreciate these partners very much.
Due to the short preparation time, I was desperate in looking for a suitable gift to express my gratitude to those church friends.
My original expectation was to find a traditional music box that can play my melody and engrave some simple sentences.
To my surprise, I found the Muro Box website and started to get interested in it. Later, I found more videos of Muro Box produced by Youtubers and realized that it is a special gift.
Muro Box uses modern technology to bring brand new meaning to the classical music boxes. It also allows people like me, who are not familiar with the craftsmanship of making a music box movement, to present our creativity in creating customized melodies.
My name is G.J. Lee, and I am currently devoted to teaching, performing and promoting Ukulele. The first time I knew Muro Box and its R&D team from Tevofy Technology Ltd. was during the first crowdfunding campaign period in Taiwan in 2018. I waited until 2020 to finally receive the first generation of Muro Box N20.
During this long waiting period, I read their regular and detailed updates to report the actual production progress and experimental results. I found this company to be admirable. Music box is not a necessity in life, and nowadays many people are not familiar with it. Even though the product may not be profitable, they still did their best to strive for the better sound quality regardless of the high production cost.
Seeing the perseverance of their team in the pursuit of making music boxes into handicrafts, and combining the convenience of modern technology to make more people willing to understand music boxes again, I think this spirit is very admirable. Hence, as its first-time backer, I am willing to spend such a long time recording a second unboxing video, documenting the hard work and long time their team has spent on refining Muro Box. (The first unbox video was made in 2020 when I received it for the first time.)
As a little child, I had a “programmable” xylophone which was driven by a big cylinder with slidable pins. Unfortunately, I was very careless at that time and so the poor thing broke shortly after I got it. But, the concept of (programmable) music boxes was born in my mind and I always had fascination for the mechanism inside a toy music box.
I looked on the internet to see if something like that still was available, but didn’t find anything but programmable music boxes using a paper strip. Being a blind person, punching holes in a paper strip wasn’t really an option; so I was wondering if there was some other kind of programmable music box and all of a sudden, I discovered something called, ”Muro Box”…
When I was around 10 years old I came across a music box that worked with paper strips, and also fell in love with its sound, as it was much richer than the usual small music boxes. I promptly asked for one for my birthday, and got it.
I spent much of my allowance on preprinted music strips, which I still own – along with that music box.
Many of those songs on paper strips were really well made. It’s those strips that I’m now adding to the Muro Box library.
I remember it was a very unexpected chance when I saw the 2018 zeczec crowdfunding campaign of Muro Box. In fact, I have nothing to do with music creation. I decided to pre-ordered it as its backer simply because I was attracted by the mechanical structure of the music box.
I’m just a coffee fan, and the name of my coffee shop “Atti” comes from the first four letters of the English word for “attitude”.
Hi, I’m Shawn from Lullatone. My wife Yoshimi and I make music as Lullatone. We’ve released a ton of albums and also recorded songs for films and videos.
I’m a big fan of the Muro Box – the amazing electro-acoustic mechanical music box that lets you play your own melodies on its tines. You can connect MIDI keyboards, use their app or even send the notes to play from your DAW (like Ableton, etc). The new Resonance Box makes your music box melodies louder, deeper and richer. You can check out the videos I made with my own Muro Box here.
I’m Christophe Duquesne, from La Voix du Luthier and Haken Audio. I’m an instrument maker, sound-designer and musician, and I love to associate acoustic and electronic sounds, merging skills from the past and the most recent technologies.
The sound of the Muro Box is just perfect: you can really play your music box and integrate it in your own composition. And it is rock solid: I brought it to SynthFest France (I’m involved in its organization) and it was used by visitors for 3 full days without any issue.
I am Felipe Gutiérrez Álvarez, an elementary school music teacher at The American School Foundation in Mexico City. Tracey Bryan, the Elementary STEAM Coordinator invited me in to test the MuroBox she had requested after seeing it featured on an Indiegogo campaign. She knew that it would be a perfect addition to our resources because it blended mechanics with science and the art of making music. I was excited to see how it could enhance my music classes and immediately wanted to test it and determine how to combine our knowledge of mechanical tools and my music expertise to design the classes.
This is Josh Keeler from Page 2 Stage Music. I am one of the Muro Box Indiegogo campaign backers. I started writing charts for a music box that operated with a hand crank, paper strips and a troublesome hole punch! After that box broke, I eventually looked into finding a new music box on Music Box maniacs. That’s when I discovered the Muro Box Indiegogo campaign. Even though my old music box had more notes, I could see that the Muro Box was superior in many other ways: Speed, durability, range, song length and overall capabilities. The price needed a leap of faith that I don’t regret taking. I doubt future users will regret the purchase either. It was well worth the price and the wait!
After writing several melodies for my own Muro Box, I discovered some tips to save time that I will be more than happy to share with other Muro Box users.
I’m a member of the Dutch Pianola Association ( https://www.pianolavereniging.nl/ ). There was an article of the Muro Box, and I decided almost directly to order this during its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign in 2020, because I love people who makes the World better with positive things (technic) and energy. “Te Deum’ of Charpentier” is the special melody I liked (and still like) in my youth, so I wished to play it on the Muro Box.
Mohammad Alkhateeb Purchased Muro Box as His Wife's Birthday Gift (Kuwait)
My wife, Lina, found the Muro Box after its Indiegogo campaign finished, but she wanted the Muro Box really badly. When it was available to purchase from the Muro Box website, she mentioned it to me, but I just brushed it aside pretending not to care.
The special melody I used the Muro Box to play for her birthday surprise is “You’re My Sunshine”. I choose this song because I sing it to my wife when things are particularly bad and it makes her feel better.
Mohammad Alkhateeb
2021/12/19
Nick Chen Proposed to His Girl Friend with Muro Box Playing Their Songs (Taiwan)
I started to like listening to English songs because of my girl friend. I remembered that she gave me the first birthday surprise was to sing, “Proud of You” with other high school classmates in a KTV in late evening when she was supposed to arrive home according to her parents’ rules…I want Muro Box to play this song and many other songs that recalled our shared memories.
Nick Chen
2018/11/22
Wen-Yi Lo Bought 2 Muro Boxes as the Family Heirlooms for His Children (Taiwan)
Kevin Kern’s “Through the Arbor” was the bedtime music I used to play for my son and daughter. For our family, this music has special meaning, so I bought two Muro Boxes to preserve this memory for a lifetime for my children.
Dr. Wen-Yi Lo
2018/12/31
It is graceful to witness the development of Muro Box, such a great integration of antique with technology. I am so happy to finally receive the final product few weeks ago. Muro Box is well made with great quality on all of the tiny details. I can tell how much efforts, cares and love had been devoted into this music box.
It is a perfect gift to make our family life full of romance and surprise! Thank you, Muro Box!
Listen to the melodies composed by our first customer from Belgium!
2020/12/26
A sentence and an image that recall your shared memory can be engraved on the wood box and the metal plate to present your story and best wishes for him/her.
Our customized laser-engraving service not only engraves your best wishes on the Muro Box, but also imprints on the heart of the gift receiver.
Let’s see how our global customers make best use of our customized laser engraving service to present their love and creativity for their family and friends!
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The Muro Box combines the diversity and convenience of digital music arrangement and retains the analog music live performance method of traditional music boxes. When the familiar melody reverberates, the memories will unfold one by one.
Come and see how Muro Box can unleash your creativity.
