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FEW things evoke the spirit of holidays past better than an oldfashioned music box. Its tinkly rendition of “Silent Night” and other Christmas classics charmed listeners and encouraged parlor sing-alongs long before radio or television.
The nostalgic sounds of yesteryear never have been more popular with collectors, the National Geographic Society says. Antique music boxes sometimes command thousands of dollars at auction.
But it isn’t money that rouses the emotions of a dedicated music box enthusiast. As the blind pianist Alec Templeton once wrote: “There is hardly a music box in the world that can sound too loud, and in these days of screaming jets, or roaring subways, and clamorous traffic, that is a most refreshing characteristic.”
A Washington, D.C., collector put it another way, “In many instances the boxes themselves are works of art. But the profit motive wasn’t what attracted me to the hobby. I wanted to make sure these marvelous instruments conveying the sounds of the past would be preserved and enjoyed by future
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