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Blue Danube music box

Walnut case, 18-note comb, hand-cranked — assembled by a Viennese workshop, tuned by ear.

from €48.00VAT included · €0.00 booking fee

48 on the shelf · counted at the counter

Which one

Up to 9 in one order.

Your order

1 × €48.00

€0.00 booking fee · shipping or free collection chosen at checkout

  • Posted the next working day · Austria €4.90, free over €80 · rest of the EU €9.90, free over €120 · rest of world €24.90, free over €250
  • Free collection at our office counter during opening hours — ready the same evening if you order by 15:00
  • 14 days from delivery to change your mind on unopened goods; food and drink excepted by law

Hand-cranked

Thirty-six seconds is the whole point

An 18-note comb cannot hold a waltz, so a music box has to choose the eight bars everyone knows and let them go. Crank it slowly and the Blue Danube becomes almost unbearably sentimental; crank it fast and it is a joke. Both are correct.

The case is walnut, the mechanism is pinned and tuned by ear in the workshop, and the crank means there is no battery to die in a drawer for a decade.

Assembled and tuned by a Viennese workshop.

The particulars

Case
Walnut, 11 × 8 × 6 cm, brass crank
Mechanism
18-note comb, pinned cylinder, no battery
Plays
About 36 seconds per wind
Weight
540 g
Made in
Vienna

Getting it home

  • Cabin or hold; the crank unscrews so nothing snaps off in a bag.

  • It will play in your luggage if the crank is left in. Take it out.

  • Wood, so keep it out of a humid hold in the tropics if you can.

Not sure? Ask at the counter or call +43 1 934 66 40 — we would rather you carried it than lost it at security.

This one at a glance

Price, stock, shipping, collection and the return window checked against our own terms on .
What
Blue Danube music box
Made by
Walnut case, 18-note comb, hand-cranked — assembled by a Viennese workshop, tuned by ear.
Made in
Vienna
Material
Walnut, 11 × 8 × 6 cm, brass crank
Weight
540 g
Price
From €48.00, per the choice above, VAT included, €0.00 booking fee — the maker’s own price, not a marked-up one.
Stock
48 on the shelf · counted at the counter — a number we counted on our own shelf, printed as a fact. Nothing here runs on a clock.
Delivery
Austria €4.90, free over €80 · rest of the EU €9.90, free over €120 · rest of world €24.90, free over €250 · alcohol within the EU only · free at our office counter, the same evening if you order by 15:00.
Returns
You have 14 days from the day the parcel is delivered to return unopened goods, food and drink excepted by law. If something arrives damaged we pay the return postage. A refund is started the same day and lands in three to five bank days, on the card that paid.

Not verified

The workshop facts on this page — founding years, production figures, recipes — are carried from our buying notes and were not re-read against the makers on the day the shop’s own terms were checked.

Questions guests ask

The six that apply to everything on the shelf, then the ones about this object.

  • What does shipping cost?

    Austria €4.90, free over €80 of shop goods. The rest of the European Union €9.90, free over €120. Rest of the world €24.90, free over €250. The same figures run the checkout, and our handling fee is €0 on all three.

  • Can I collect it at your counter instead?

    Yes, free, at our office counter — Monday to Friday 09:00–18:00, Saturday 09:00–19:00, Sunday 10:00–16:00. Order by 15:00 and it is waiting the same evening, which is the sensible route if you are at a concert that night.

  • Can I change my mind?

    You have 14 days from the day the parcel is delivered to return unopened goods, food and drink excepted by law. If something arrives damaged we pay the return postage. A refund is started the same day and lands in three to five bank days, on the card that paid.

  • Do you gift wrap?

    €4 a parcel: a grey board box, claret ribbon and a card written by hand at the counter with whatever you dictate. The packing slip goes out without prices, so nobody unwraps a number.

  • What happens with customs outside the EU?

    Goods leaving the EU are zero-rated, so the price you pay us carries no Austrian VAT — and the import VAT and any duty are then collected by the courier before delivery. We cannot pay it for you and we would rather say so on this page than let it arrive as a surprise.

  • Is the maker’s own price marked up?

    No. We buy at the workshop’s trade price and sell at the price the workshop itself charges, so the address on the box costs you nothing. Every product page names the workshop, and our handling fee is €0.

  • Is it loud enough to hear across a room?

    No. It is a lap-sized sound, and putting it on a wooden table doubles the volume — that is how these were designed to be played.

  • Can a child use it?

    From about four. The comb is behind a fixed brass plate, and there is nothing sharp or removable except the crank.

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