Bit of a disappointment today!
Through most of my life, I had this music box:
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That played A Few of My Favorite Things.
A few years ago, it fell and broke, and rather than try to fix it or hold onto the mechanism, I threw it away. I've regretted doing so, and a few days ago I did a little dive into the internet to see if I could find anything about it -- surely it was mass produced, and maybe there's still some floating around out there. I found a fair number of these:
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Which plays An Impossible Dream.
Very similar, possibly the same manufacturer, but not the same. The only pictures I could find of the one I was looking for happened to be 2 ebay listings, one of which had a broken mechanism, but the other seemed to be in fine condition. That working one did say that it played An Impossible Dream, but I thought possibly the seller had confused it for the other model and mislisted the song. It was cheapish, so I grabbed it.
Anyway it arrived and it plays An Impossible Dream.
It also has a broken ear, which the seller noticed before sending and offered a partial refund for, which they haven't actually given yet, so I need to nag them about that, which I don't want to have to do. Ugh.
I wonder if I might be able to find a My Favorite Things music box and frankenstein the wheel into the unicorn music box. Video games have taught me that that should be easy to do, and they wouldn't lie about something like that, surely.
The broken music box listing still exists -- if it has the Favorite Things mechanism then surely it would be compatible with the working one? I can't afford to get that right now but maybe if it still exists later?
Anyway, so I have that now.