A letterbox for hörbert

We at the hörbert team would like to thank our customer David L. very much for providing the photos of this wonderful and creative wall mount for hörbert.

The hörbert of the little 3-year-old son surely feels absolutely delighted and well looked after there.

We’re happy to share the “letterbox story”:

“…We too would very much like to contribute with our own creation for the ‘Homemade’ section and share our ideas with the hörbert Community. This year we gave our three-year-old son an individual hörbert for Christmas and so that our little rascal can enjoy his new player for a long time to come, we were also looking for a suitable wall mount beforehand.

However, we couldn’t find any really good ideas on the internet that could meet the desired requirements. So we thought up the following wall mount ourselves, reworked the existing components and assembled them accordingly. To prevent the lovely hörbert from flying straight through the children’s room, a small child safety feature was very important to us.

We ordered a self-built wooden letterbox from the internet (Made in Ukraine) that was slightly larger inside than the external dimensions of the hörbert. We cut suitable shaped pieces from plastic (packaging material) for interior padding so that the hörbert could be inserted well secured and protected. After the interior padding elements were finished, we then determined the exact positional measurements of the hörbert control surface relative to the mount housing, which we transferred to the outer wall of the letterbox so that we could cut out a window using a jigsaw based on the contour.

The wooden cut-out was then sanded smooth and repainted. For child safety, we chose a galvanised security lock with hasp (80cm) and a combination lock in matching colour. A small recess had to be ground into the side wall for the hasp so that the flap could rest properly despite the closed bolt.

We’re very satisfied with the result and our son was absolutely delighted with it. Every day he goes to the children’s room wall next to his little bed to select new children’s songs or audio stories. As parents, you also have a good feeling that the new present can’t break immediately through overly boisterous handling and will remain as it was on the first day for a long time.”