Jewellery

When we think about jewellery boxes most of us imagine a musical wooden jewellery box. Opening a musical wooden jewellery box and hearing the melody tinkle out in that slightly magical way is a memory we retain from childhood. If you ask a girl what she’d like to contain her jewellery she will ask for a musical wooden jewellery box with the figurine of a ballerina that dances in a circle when the cover is opened.

The classic design of a musical wooden jewellery box with the rotating ballerina is still one of the most widely available. For young girls there are musical wooden jewellery boxes with a figurine either in traditional wood, painted white or even pink. Some of these musical wooden jewellery boxes won’t stay popular as the little girl grows older.

However, some of the musical wooden jewellery boxes with a ballerina can still look quite grown-up and last a lifetime if the outer design is traditional. Many a little girl would also love a musical wooden jewellery box with an antique look, so long as it has the mirror and figurine inside. Sometimes the mirror in this type of musical wooden jewellery box has three sections at varied angles so that the figurine is reflected as a group of dancers.

You can also find a more simple musical wooden jewellery box without a figurine. If your musical wooden jewellery box is oriental in design it might have oriental-style music to add to the effect. For any other type of musical wooden jewellery box you will want to listen to the melody before buying so that you can choose one you like as you will be hearing it often.

The melody only plays in a musical wooden jewellery box if you wind it up with a key usually located in the base. The whole device in a musical wooden jewellery box is mechanical, using clockwork to turn the metal roll with a set of tiny prongs which pluck a metal comb of notes in the right order to give the unique twanging sound we all know and love.

Much as we enjoy a musical wooden jewellery box, the sound could get repetitive or be a nuisance late at night. Luckily it’s possible to let the clockwork in a musical wooden jewellery box wind down so that it goes silent. A musical wooden jewellery box is especially useful if you have babies or young children as it can fascinate them and calm them down for a long time.

Be careful if you let young children wind up your musical wooden jewellery box as they are likely to over-wind the key and break the mechanism. If this happens it may be possible to mend your musical wooden jewellery box, and if you can’t manage it yourself a jeweller or watch repairer would be able to unless too much damage has been done.