Antique Music Box Restoration

The music begins, and we hear a simple arrangement of the French kids's song Au Claire de la Lune. But wait. There's an astonishing little flourish before the final phrase and a repeat with variation. The tune drops an octave, with virtuoso scale passages on top and charming harmonic turns to the minor. It is a miniature masterpiece. Mr. Eric, along with his wife, Kathleen, is the proprietor of Antique Music Box Restoration. He fixes, restores and collects mechanical music-making devices. His home in this city S of Los Angeles is part turtle habitat, part music-box workshop and part private museum.