ABOUT AMBOX

It was created by Sergei Ryzhkov, a Moscow-based inventor and co-founder of the Moscow-based internet-provider company RiNet. He wanted to create a musical player that would not depend on standard power sources. Sergey Korsakov, the Tyran of Cadboardia, saw him one day in the park playing what looked like a strange hurdy-gurdy, and told the English musician Stephen Coates about it. Stephen immediately suggested that special music should be recorded for the music box and came up with the name ‘Ambox' - An Alchemical Music box.
Together they decided to develop the idea further. Thus, around May 2016, the Ambox was born: on the outside — a classic wooden organ, on the inside — a clever electro-mechanical device that transforms the human energy of the rotated handle into music recorded on an SD memory-card. The Ambox can play up to 99 tracks, but the memory card can be changed at any time with new music.
There are already different versions of the digital barrel organ — we have a transparent and luminous one, and artists are coming up with their own design. Musicians are making special music for the organ and there is a synchronized model, for playing in an ‘Ambox Orchestra" - even a version for left-handed people.
Development continues — we are conducting research to improve the electronic of the machine itself, and on completely new devices, such as a video version which projects images onto any surface.

It was a challenge to organise our small production, and a much bigger issue to deal with the logistics of selling worldwide! It took us more than a year to get to know how to even receive payments officially from different countries and to deal with all the VAT and customs questions around the world! In 2022−23 we will be working on moving production to other countries and fighting for our right to continue to bring happiness to our world!
We are one of the pioneers of a kind of small business in Russia engaged in the development and production of a unique "craft" product to be distributed throughout the world. But we are now conducting negotiations about beginning production in Europe and the USA. Perhaps we are one of the first to create a product that markets itself by personal contact, but we hope that we will not be the only ones — and we are ready to share our experience!

ALCHEMICAL MUSIC BOX –
IS AN AMAZING HAND-POWERED MUSIC PLAYER THAT TRANSFORMS YOUR PHYSICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICITY SO YOU CAN PLAY YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC IN ANY PLACE THAT YOU WANT! USING THIS MICRO SD CARD. THE AMBOX CAN PLAY MORE THAN 90 OF YOUR FAVORITE PIECES OF MUSIC.