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Many people feel tired of listening to the same song in a music box easily. Then, we started to wonder: What if a music box can play more than one song? What if there is a music box that can play all of the memories in just a box? The answer is Muro Box, Music Robot in a Box.
With the patented cylinder and exclusive app for Muro Box, you can enjoy the live music performance of a mechanical music box playing all of your favorite songs right away!
Patents in the US (#US 9,842,575 B1), Taiwan (#TWM548878U), and China (#CN207149245U)
See How Our Global Customers Play Their Own Melodies on Their Muro Boxes!
Example 1: Indiegogo backer from Belgium (Mr. Geert Vanpee)
This unique melody "The Muro Box Story" was arranged by our Indiegogo backer from Belgium: Mr. Geert Vanpee. He picked 6 melodies from our previous demo videos in our YouTube channel to record our product development journey when editing this meaningful melody for us.
1. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: This melody inspires the founder (Dr. Feng) to invent the Muro Box, a mechanical music box that can multiple meaningful melodies for his wife (the co-founder of the Muro Box).
2. Mary Had a Little Lamb: When Dr. Feng decided to invent Muro Box; his first DIY project to prove his concept is creating an electronic xylophone in 2016, and this melody was recorded in his live demo video.
3. Vivaldi's Four Seasons-Spring: This melody was used in one of early prototypes live demo videos.
4. Pachelbel’s Canon: This melody was used in one of the later stage prototype live demos. Geert improvised its original melody a bit in this mashup melody.
5. Yiruma’s River Flows in You: This melody marks a very important milestone in the product development because the sound quality has been improved significantly when the Muro Box prototype played this melody.
6. Ed Sheeran’s Perfect: This famous love song’s melody was presented in the live demo video of the Muro Box when the team introduced their new USB midi input feature.
Example 2: Indiegogo backer from the US (Mr. Richard Devine)
To learn more about how our Muro Box's USB-C MIDI input slot can be connected with your MIDI keyboard, Laptop or USB-drive, please view this tutorial:https://murobox.com/en/app-tutorial-07/.
The above image is a close shot of the backside of Muro Box that includes two USB-C slots. You can see that the left slot is for a USB-C power cord and the right slot is for inserting your USB-MIDI Input cable. We will provide a USB-C adapter for you if your order include the USB-C MIDI input option. The black turning knob is for you to select a melody in your offline playlist, and it cannot let you adjust the volume of the music. The volume can only be controlled with adding a resonance box to enlarge it or to add a cushion below the Muro Box to reduce its volume. For learning more about how to create your own online and offline playlist in our free Muro Box app, please view this tutorial: https://murobox.com/en/faq/app-tutorial-05/
We support both iOS and Android. Welcome to download our app "Muro Box" for free! Attention: Android needs to be 5.0 or newer version; iOS needs to be 9.0 or newer version.
We invented the world’s first app-controlled cylinder for Muro Box to make your dream come true: One music box plays all of your favorite songs. Our patented design breaks the limitation of a traditional music box but still preserves the resonance and sound generated from a mechanical movement.
Want to know how we make the cylinder have flexible pins to pluck each note according to your programmed music? Check out this 3D illustration video to explain our patented cylinder design:
You can upload your own compositions to the exclusive music cloud library and share them with other music box lovers in the world. You can store all of your songs on it and play them anytime via our app.
Schedule your favorite melodies to play at the right time to start your wonderful day.
To make sure Muro Box can play the songs you desire to hear, we construct an exclusive music cloud library. There is no limitation on how many songs you can upload. You can update your collection of melodies from our app anytime.
We are thrilled to partner with the world’s largest music box community – Music Box Maniacs. You can enjoy 30,000+ music box melodies shared by the 22500+ music box fans around the world, on your Muro Box!! You can download any song from musicboxmaniacs.com easily with a barcode scanner in our APP, and your Muro Box is ready to play it in seconds.
Are your tired of punching holes for paper strip music box? Muro Box is the ultimate music box to make your dream come true.
We work with many professional composers to help you turn your favorite songs into Muro Box melodies. Here are some of the professionals we recommend:
According to the Music Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), the scale of Muro Box is between C3 to A5 (C4-A6 in American standard), so it includes about 2.5 octaves. Please note that this 20-note version of Muro Box uses a diatonic scale. In the future, we will develop a 40-note version Muro Box (Muro Box N40) to include more semitones for music professionals in 2023, and welcome to sign up for Muro Box N40: https://www.surveycake.com/s/QeyBR
Muro Box N20 can play as fast as 4 beats per second for the same note, which means consecutive eight notes at BPM 120. When there is any note that is faster than the above speed limitation, it will be skipped by our firmware so the Muro Box N20 will not play it. The basic unit of notes in Muro Box is eighth note (quaver). Muro Box allows 7 notes to be plucked at the same time as the maximum.
If you need customized music composing service to play on your Muro Box, please contact us by email: support@tevofy.com.
More than compose songs with the dots in our APP, you can select the MIDI file stored in your phone to import to our app, or download MIDI from Internet by copy and paste the URL of your MIDI to our app.
In addition to controlling the Muro Box from our exclusive app, you can upload your own melodies to a USB flash drive first and then connect it with the Muro Box to play those melodies offline. When Muro Box is reading the MIDI files in your USB flash drive, you can keep the app off.
So far, we have provided 30 songs in the offline playlist, including 27 famous classical music melodies and 3 original melodies composed by experienced composers. View this YouTube video's description to see the titles of our official playlist that will be set as default playlist when shipping your Muro Box: https://youtu.be/0GRyrWY9HVM
Every day, our global users upload some of their creation in public mode to welcome other users to enjoy their creation. Muro Box has a fast-growing community. Now, our app supports the following languages: English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The Japanese version and Korean version were translated by our own customers who really enjoy playing the Muro Box!
Our Indiegogo Backer from the US:
Our Indiegogo Backer from the Netherlands:
Welcome to read more global users' stories to learn more about how Muro Box preserves their special memories: https://murobox.com/en/our-users/
1. The only feasible way for making one music box movement to play your own song! A customized traditional music box requires 1000-3000 pc as the minimum order from its factory, plus $600 USD music programming fee per song. In Muro Box, you can compose any song by yourself without any extra cost.
2. You don't need to punch holes on a paper-strip music box. Just upload the MIDI file of your favorite song via our APP, Muro Box will play this special song right away!
3.Our price is much more affordable than the existing programmable music box, Primotone, which costs about $3,000 USD. Primotone provides 150 songs in the SD card, but customers cannot play their own creation nor change the content in the SD card. Muro Box gives you much more freedom in composing and choosing your own songs to play on a music box.
Wood Box Color: Maple (Light Color)
Wood Box Color: Oak (Dark Color)
The above two wood box designs use the same original wood (hard maple) to cut with CNC machine so that it is one-piece wood design to ensure its sound quality. Hard maple is commonly used in making guitars.
An example image of our customer's request for adding the engraving service on the metal plate is below:
The Indemand sale price for 1 Muro Box+ USB-C MIDI input is $425 USD, not including shipping fee and VAT tax. Please be aware that the shipping fee shown on Indiegogo check out page does not include the VAT import tax of your county. Our product's HS code is 9208.10.000, and it is made in Taiwan and shipped from Taiwan. Please use this HS code to check the VAT import tax of your country on your own. Our product price is under $800USD, so it is still with the import tax exemption for US customers.
After you place the order, we will get it shipped from our office/warehouse in Taiwan in 1 week via DHL /SF Express when there are available units in our stock.
You can also consider to add the following add-on perks to customize your Muro Box's metal plate and/or requesting a customize melody to be arranged by our music composer.
After you complete the payment for the customized music composing service on Indiegogo, we will receive an email notification from Indiegogo about your contribution. Next, we will send you a survey to fill in the information about your requested melody.
We spent more than 4 years in designing Muro Box before its formal production. Here is the summary of what we have done, including countless tests to refine the functions and increase the stability.
If you are interested in reading more details about this product development journey, please read our stories in our website.
From the backside of Muro Box, you can see that we use a laser carving machine to print the following text on a metal plate: “ It (Muro Box) has come to life because of you.” This text is designed for all of our Indiegogo backers because we want to thank for your support for our first International crowdfunding campaign.
Our team is based in Taiwan, where very little people know that it was the biggest manufacturer of the music box in 1970s - 80s. Although the music box industry was declining for decades, there is still one last factory in Taiwan, Kyooh Precision Industry. Kyooh has produced music box movements and cooperated with Sankyo, the most famous music box brand in Japan for decades.
With the cooperation with Kyooh, our team invented the world’s first app-controlled cylinder for the music box in 2017 and uses it on our smart music box, Muro Box.
Taiwan is famous for its precision metal industry. With the pride of the skills and quality of the factories, each Muro Box has more than 200 metal components, and all of them are made in Taiwan, assembled in Taiwan and then confidently presented to the world.
Muro Box requires a high precision in both the size and shape of each component because any tiny error may cause unpleasant noise or even dysfunction of the Muro Box.
Watch our production videos:
1. Introducing the Metal Spring (a key component of the pin stopper to produce the sustaining sound effect of the mechanical music box):
The pin stopper enables the running pins on the ratchets to be stopped, so the pins won’t touch the comb and cut the sustaining sound from the previously played notes. The pin stopper has a metal spring with 20 teeth on it, and those teeth correspond to the 20-note comb. The key function of the metal spring is to bounce back the pins so that they will stand by at the right position when waiting for the right timing to pluck the following notes according to the programmed music.
2. Introducing the Metal Base:
The function of the metal base in Muro Box is to conduct the vibration from comb to the wooden box. The “conduction” is the key factor that determines the sound quality, therefore, the material, size, shape, and thickness of the metal base went through a series of experiments.
3. Introducing the Coil Base:
The Muro Box cylinder has 20 individual electromagnet modules. Each electromagnet module can control the timing of the 8 pins on the 20 ratchets to pluck the comb according to your programmed music. The coil base is the outer case of the electromagnet modules, so there are 20 coil bases in each Muro Box.
Dr. Feng and Dr. Tsai are a couple who have received their Ph.D. degrees in the United States and decided to integrate their expertise in engineer and education to run a startup. “Use technology to connect people’s hearts” is their vision because they believe that technology should bring people not only convenience in life but also care between each other.
They started the idea of modifying a music box because it recalled their love memory of exchanging student life in Austria. Dr. Tsai bought a music box playing Mozart’s song, “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” when they visited the residence of Mozart in Saltzberg.
Music boxes are often bought as gifts for the important ones. For a long time, people have wished that the music box can play any song they love. In order to make the wish come true, they invested more than 4 years in designing the cylinder structure of a music box. They hope that Muro Box will be the best gift for your loved one.
The following image shows the latest new packaging box design we made for our Indiegogo backers in 2020.
We hope this packaging box design can let you carry it around easily and elegantly when you want to present it as a perfect gift for your loved one. Therefore, we add a handle on the top of the packaging box. This new design has undergone a series of modification, discussion, revision, and falling tests to ensure that it can provide best protect for the Muro Box during the shipping process.
Company Introduction
Company Name: Tevofy Technology Ltd. Date of Establishment: 2016/03/29. 2021
-Start Online Store Sales to regular customers and global dealers
2020
–Indiegogo campaign Result: 1024 backers from 46 countries ($312, 115USD)
2019
– Started the Durability Tests of Muro Box – Muro Box was reported by TechCrunch as a retro-style cylinder music box you control with an app
2018
– The first crowdfunding success on ZecZec (2 million NTDs) – Started the Pilot Run Production Stage
2017
– Muro Box Facebook Page Established: Muro Box Global – The first prototype of Muro Box was born
2016
– Started the idea of Muro Box from scratch – Visited music box stores and factories in Taiwan for market research
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