Repair and Restoration Services

The Musical Wonder House offers for you a full spectrum of music box restoration services. Whether a modern music box, an antique singing birdcage or birdbox, whistler, diorama, Anri, Haffner, musical clock or your cylinder or disc music box, our on-site expert staff can precisely restore your musical treasure, from the inner works to the outer case.

We specialize in the replacement of missing parts for your music box mechanism, from the cutting of new gears to the machining of new governor assemblies, coin-operated controls, replacement tune cards, etc.

Pristine comb repairs, from bent or broken tips to new teeth and tips are our technician's specialty. We also can rebuild the often-corroded lead weights under the lower register of your comb teeth, which are needed to produce a correctly ringing low tone. If your comb seems beyond restoration, you are in luck. We can machine an entirely new comb for you. We always repair and re-create new dampers with each restoration.

We provide expert cylinder re-pinning services to restore the missing, bent or stripped pins that are needed to play the notes of your music.

Bellows restoration, bird re-feathering, re-molded tree trunks, silk leaf restoration and custom glass dome replacements are available for your diorama.

Our case work is museum quality, replacing missing silver, brass and copper inlays, enamel paints, mother of pearl, and inner and outer veneering refinishing to original specs.

Clock repair is another MWH specialty, from cuckoo to multiple chime, from miniature to long case organ flute clocks. Our technician has 26 years expertise in the field.

Simply Contact Us and we will be happy to assist you. See some examples of our typical restorations below. Also, meet one of our technicians.

(Click the photos for a larger view)

Before and after case restoration

Preparing the musical comb for new teeth

Before and after photos of a mechanism restoration

More photos of the mechanism restoration

Top and bottom photos of drum teeth that are missing drum levers

Restored drum teeth and re-machined drum levers