When selling music boxes you want to make sure that you know the song the music box is playing. If you sell some thing on Etsy or eBay that has the wrong tune in the description, you will most likely get a return or be asked for a partial refund. Here is how to you keep yourself from angering a music box collector. You don't need to have as much knowledge about reselling in this day in time because there are plenty of resource websites out there. One of them is Music Box Attic. Now this is an ecommerce site but it has a very handy page with a huge list of common music box themes. They have even broken it down into how many notes are in each song.
Here's how you use it. You need to count how many notes are in the music box. These will be those thin long arms. Those pieces of metal are what makes the noise. This may be hard to count. Once you know how many notes there are you can start listening to the different audio samples they have on the page. Hopefully you can find what you are looking for.
Now if you don't have time to look through the list to find out what song you have, make sure to record the music box on video and upload it to YouTube or another video sharing site. Add this video to your listing. that way the person who is going to buy it can listen to the music and figure out what tune it is. Even if they don't know the song either, they may buy it just based on how it sounds. this can be a very good tactic at selling any music box you come across known or unknown.
Here is the link to the webpage where you can find these samples: http://www.musicboxattic.com/list.html Subscribe to get new videos! Earns Commissions
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