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- ' The AMICA BULLETIN AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION MAY/JUNE 1995 VOLUME 32, NUMBER 3 /'

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HOWARD LUTTER UPIL of Prof. Karg and Rafael Joselfy, Howard Lutter has P won a place of eminence not only as a popular pianist but as the leader of an excellent orchestra. He has had wide experience in the domain of popular music, particularly, and as a member of the De Luxe Organization is in large measure responsible for the excellent records of popular music released each month by this organization.

" With bnt wi;Ju; for the ;uccn; of the wonderful De Luxe Welte." Jf:;;;;;;;d (~

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Front and back cover from The Music Trade Review Vol. LVII, New York, November 29, 1913, No. 22. THE AMICA BULLETIN ~~ AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION

Published by the Automatic Muicallnstrument Collectors' Association, a non-profit. tax exempt group devoted to the restoration, distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments using perforated paper music rolls and perforated musIc books. AMICA was founded in San Francisco. California in 1963,

ROBIN PRATT, PUBLISHER, 515 SCOTT STREET, SANDUSKY, OH 44870-3736 - Phone 419-626-1903 Associate Editors: Emmett M. Ford and Richard J. Howe

VOLUME 32, Number 3 May/June, 1995 AMICA BULLETIN

FEATURES Display and Classified Ads Articles for Publication AMICA Honoraries - 177 Letters to the Publisher Steinway & Sons Sold - 178 Chapter News Single copies of back issues Stoddard-Ampico Pleases Grand Duke Alexander - 179 ($5.00 per issue - based upon availability) Piping Up - 180 Mike Barnhart Ampico Recording Instructions - 191 919 Lantern Glow Trail Dayton, Ohio 45431 DEPARTMENTS 513-254-5580 UPCOMING PUBLICATION AMICA Officers, Chapter Officers, Affiliates - 172 DEADLINES President's Message - 173 The ads and articles must be received by the Publisher on the I st of the Publisher's Notes - 173 Odd number months: January Letters To The Editor - 174 March May Tech Tips - 182 July September Chapter News - 183 November Classified Ads - 203 Bulletins will be mailed on the 1st week of the even months.

ATTENTION READERS! Enclosed within the envelope containing your AMICA BULLETIN, you will find the first installment of the Instrument Listing Supplement to the AMICA Membership Directory. This MEMBERSHIP SERVICES is the first time this has EVER been done and AMICA has the Membership Secretary, Michael New Memberships Barnhart to thank for this monumental undertaking. Renewals Enclosed in these supplements you will find listed all of the instruments and items in your col­ lections, These are considered accurate as of late fall 1994, So if you have a new instrument or Address changes and corrections item in your collection it may not be listed. We hope this will help you cross reference any other .Directory information updates members with similar instruments with whom you may wish to correspond, or find out that you Additional copies of weren't the only one with a 14 1/2' Peaudaunk, with "Re-Actionary" repeating action or a special Member Directory FrenchlFreid Musical Box containing custom ostriches with heads that pop in and out of their own Mike Barnhart individual mini sand boxes, It is amazing seeing a list (all of a certain item) in one place! Hope 919 Lantern Glow Trail you enjoy this ... and "Thanks Mike!" Dayton, Ohio 45431 AMICA Publications and the Executivt' Board 513-254-5580 P.S. Just a reminder: WHEN you receive your AMICA Membership Renewal later this year, please check it over Very Carefully!!! We cannot be responsible for on-going errors in your To ensure timely delivery of your name, address, telephone number and collection listing if you wait u.ntil after the Membership BULLETIN, please allow 6-weeks Directory is printed to tell us. Please, check your renewal information -fllInually for accuracy when advance notice of address changes. you receive, renew and mail it in. Thanks Again!

AMICA reserves the right to accept, reject, or edit any and all submitted articles and advertising.

Entire contents C> 1995 AMICA International 171 AMICA INTERNATIONAL

INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS CHAPTER OFFICERS r BOSTON AREA NORTHERN LIGHTS PRESIDENT Maurice Willyard . Pres. Robert H. Hunt - 207-985-2308 Pres: Craig Remmen - 515-424-3677 1988 NW Palmer Lane Vice Pres: Tony Misianos Vice Pres: Donald Jones Bremerton, WA 98311 Sec: Charlie Randazzo & Sec: Jason Beyer 360-692-8885 Barbara McFall Treas: Robert & Katheryn Dumas Treas: Alan Jayne Reporter: Kay Dumas PAST PRESIDENT Mel Septon Reporter: Don Brown Ruth Anderson 9045 North Karlov Board Rep: Sandy Libman Board Rep: Craig Remmen Skokie, Illinois 60076 PACIFIC CAN-AM CHICAGO AREA 708-679-3455 Pres: Dan Brown - (509) 325-2626 Pres: Marty Persky - 708-675-6144 Vice Pres: Bill Chapman VICE PRESIDENT Linda Bird Vice Pres: Dee Kavouras Sec: Lorna Ullstrom 3300 Robinson Pike Sec: James Doheny Treas: Carl Kehret Grandview, MO 64030-2275 Treas: Elsa Pekarek Reporter: Jeff Davis (816) 767-8246 Reporter: Margaret Bisberg Board Rep: Dan Brown Board Rep: Mike Schwimmer SECRETARY Mary Wilson SIERRA-NEVADA FOUNDING CHAPTER Pres: Becky Kane - 916-448-9559 AMICA Headquarters Route I, Box 223-M Pres: Eric Bernhoft - 415-929-8464 Vice Pres: Vickie Mahr Old Monroe, MO 63369-9737 Vice Pres: John Motto-Ros Secffreas: Sec: Jack and Dianne Edwards Tom & Virginia Hawthorn TREASURER Roy K. Powlan Treas: Lou Klein Reporter: Lori Deal Registered agent for legal matters Three Crestview Drive Reporter: John & Nadine Motto-Ros Board Rep: Richard Riley Orinda, CA 94563 Board Rep: Bob Wilcox (510) 254-0236 SOWNY (Southern Ontario, GATEWAY CHAPTER Western New York) Pres: Cynthia Craig - 314-771-1244 Pres: Randy Sockovie - 905-734-9439 PUBLISHER Robin Pratt Vice Pres: Joe Lorberg Sec: Mary Wilson Vice Pres: Rick Drewniak 515 Scott Street SeclMem. Sec: John & Diane Treas: Dorothy Ruprecht Sandusky, Ohio 44870-3736 Thompson Historian: Larry Hollenberg 419-626-1903 Treas: Holly Walter Board Rep: Cynthia Craig Photographer: Mike Walter MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Mike Barnhart Reporter: ~ob Taylor Reporter: Mike Walter 919 Lantern Glow Trail HEART OF AMERICA Board Rep: Wayne Sockovie Dayton, Ohio 45431 Pres: John Washburn - 816-650-9350 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ./ 513-254-5580 Vice Pres: Sandy Schoeppner Pres: Lowell Boehland Secffreas: Rick McDowell - 714-526-8352 COMMITTEES - Reporter: Mary Jo Bopp Vice Pres: Richard Rigg TECHNICAL Harold Malakinian Board Rep: Ron Bopp Sec./Reporter. Shirley Nix Treas: Ken Hodge 2345 Forest Trail Dr., Troy, MI 48098 LADY LIBERTY Board Rep: Frank Nix Pres: Bill Maguire - (516) 424-6752 ARCHIVES Bob Rosencrans Vice Pres: Keith Bigger TEXAS 109 Cumberland Place, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 Sec: Richard Karlsson Pres: Sal Mele - 214-233-5146 Vice Pres: Joe Morris PUBLICATIONS Robin Pratt Treas: Bill Albrecht Reporter: David Nernoff Sec: Janet Tonnesen Treas: Ken Long 515 Scott St., Sandusky, OH 44870-3736 Board Rep: Dianne Polan Reporter: Bryan Cather - (516) 673-0388 AUDIO-VISUAL Harold Malakinian Board Rep: Richard Tonnesen 2345 Forest Trail Dr., Troy, MI 48098 MIDWEST Pres: Liz Barnhart - (513) 254-5580 CONVENTION COORDINATOR Liz Barnhart Vice Pres: Harold Malakioian 919 Lantern Glow Trail, Dayton, OH 45431 Sec: Judy Barnick Treas: Alvin Wulfekuhl HONORARY MEMBERS Dorothy Bromage Reporter: Christy Counterman 19 Union St., Biddeford, ME 04005 Board Rep: Liz Barnhart

AFFILIATED SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS AUSTRALIAN COLLECTORS INTERNATIONAL PIANO NETHERLANDS MECHANICAL PLAYER PIANO GROUP OF MECHANICAL MUSICAL ARCHIVES AT MARYLAND ORGAN SOCIETY - KDV (England) INSTRUMENTS Neil Ratliff, Music Library J.L.M. Van Dinteren Tony Austin 19 Waipori Street Hornbake 3210 Postbus 147 93 Evelyn Ave. St. Ives NSW 2075, Australia College Park, Maryland 20742 6160 AC Geleen, Netherlands Ruislip, Middlesex HA4 8AH, England DUTCH PIANOLA ASSOC. MUSICAL BOX SOCIETY NORTHWEST PLAYER PIANO Nederlandse Pianola Vereniging INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIAnON Kortedijk 10 P. O. Box 297 Everson Whittle SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF 2871 CB Schoonhouen, Marietta, OH 45750 47 Raikes Rd. MECHANICAL MUSICAL r Netherlands Preston PR I 5EQ Lancashire, England INSTRUMENTS Phone 0772 792 795 Jurgen Hocker PIANOLA INSTITUTE Heiligenstock 46, D-51465 Bergisch Clair Cavanagh, Secretary SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Gladbach, Germany 43 Great Percy St., London WCIX 9RA Division of Musical History Phone 2202-41222 England Washington, D.C. 20560

172 President's Message

MICA, like so many other organizations, is blessed with a large number of members who are willing to volunteer their time and efforts to provide those services which we all too frequently - J} A take for granted. One of these services is the preparation, printing, storing and distribution of our Technicalities Publications. For at least the past to years, Brian Meeder has received and processed the orders for these publications for AMICA. While Brian was doing this, Ray Siou has seen to the copying, binding, storing, packaging and mailing of the Publication. For the last two issues of the Technicalities, Terry Smythe has been the one to screen the Bulletins and extract the technical articles. He then set them up in suitable format for publication and reproduced and bound the pages. All of these services have been provided by the above individuals at no cost to AMICA other than for postage. After serving us so faithfully for so long, Brian and Ray have requested that they be relieved of these tasks. Terry has agreed to assemble at least the next issue of Technicalities for us and forward the masters to someone else for print since his source for this process has disappeared. I believe we should, each of us, extend a personal thank you to these gentlemen for the services they have rendered so willingly to AMICA. Shawn Fox of Sandusky, Ohio has agreed to assume the responsibility for the correspondence concerning, and the mailing of the orders for, the Technicalities. He will also work with Robin Pratt, our publisher, to assure that we have copies printed and on hand so that orders can be filled in a timely manner. Robin will receive the master copies of the new Technicalities from Terry and see to the printing and bind­ ing of the copies as well as having more copies of the existing Technicalities reprinted as needed. AMICA will now have to pay for printing, binding and packaging costs so the cost for future copies of the Technicalities will probably be higher than it has been in the past. Shawn and Robin will evaluate the costs and publish the price schedule in the next issue of the Bulletin. Getting back to our volunteers, let me take a moment to once again welcome anyone who feels they would like to help with any area of AMICA. We sure can use you and welcome suggestions and assistance! Several members have been doing jobs for years and need a break today! If you are interested in learning or giving a temporary helping hand, give a call to me or your chapter president. Hosting a Chapter Meeting is no small contribution and you don't have to have 50 instruments either. Getting together with your friendly AMICA MEMBERS AND SHARING YOUR Upright Player Piano is a great experience...save the extravaganzas for the Conventions l We all have SOME­ THING to offer each other. Have a good summer. Maury Willyard ),------, .4 Dear AMICAns, The response about the WELTE issue was good I'm glad to report. Most of the information in the issue was of a technical nature and though it may have seemed too deep, it is important that the information is spread and preserved through AMICA. I recently visited a customer's home to look at a family player piano and when I found that it was in the original location, well, two houses away actually, I asked if there were any information booklets or sheets with the piano. Quite often you will find that there will be these items in the bench or even in the piano if you look. Sometimes they are even contained in the roll collections or roll cabinets, too. Anyway they looked in the bench and 10 and behold out popped a WON­ DERFUL little book called "HOW TO PLAY THE PLAYER". It is a generic instruction book on how to play the player piano and use the controls and get the most out of your player piano musically! It is 16 pages long and it will be one of AMICA's upcoming reprints for our members. So look forward to that one all ofyou 88-note aficionados. I have had LOTS of requests for articles about 88-note players and also about the artists who made the 88-note rolls. Much has been written about these subjects in the past AMICA Bulletins, but there is a strong desire for more. I have recently acquired some of the old bound issues of the Bulletin and will be "pulling" some of these articles for current issues. Of course we will try to update them and add any new information that has been learned since their original printing. If you have a specific interest or passion in this particular area, I look for­ ward to your sending in articles so we can share them with the other members. There is a large market out there for 88-note player music and instruments. Give us a hand. And as Maury said about the player piano (and I have too), your guests always seem to congregate around the pedal player piano because they like getting involved, "Hands (FEET?) On Experience!" Lots of fun. After all it is common knowledge that the 88-note pedal player piano is almost ALWAYS the entry level instrument of choice for AMICA members. I know mine was a HER­ BERT Player Piano from Milwaukee in a walnut case. (Long gone in a flood I was told. It's so sad...) There are lots of events coming up this year, what with the AMICA London Convention, MBSI meetings, Band Organ Rallies, Chapter Meetings, Amusement Park openings and just around the comer next year is the 1996 AMICA St. Louis Convention. Speaking of the St. Louis Convention, I'm sure Cynthia Craig, who is in charge of.the Convention along with the Gateway and Heart of America Chapters, .J could use a hand. Give her a call at 314-771-1244 and help out. They would welcome your assistance with the 1996 AMICA St. Louis Convention - "St. Louis on a Grand Scale!" Do It! You'll be glad you helped. Thanks, have a good one.

We regret to inform you of the death of Carol Dayton (Mrs. Roger) long time AMICA member.

173 Letters to the Editor

Dear Robin, "1- What if a member is planning a trip that includes coming to New York City to do a little research? It would be a waste·. of time and money. Jim Caterina From the New York Times, April 18, 1995 Courtesy of Jim Caterina Arts Library to Close a Floor The New York Public Library for the Robert Marx, executive director of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center has library, said the work could be done only by announced that it will close its third-floor sealing the stacks in each research collection research collections on June 26 for two and to protect them from the dust and debris. a half months to install a new heating and The equipment to be installed includes ventilation system. The divisions involved humidifiers measuring 6 by 21 feet that will are the Billy Rose Collection, the Dance be suspended from the third-floor ceiling. Collection, the Music Division, and the Staff members will be moved to other Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of floors and to the nearby Rose Building. Mr. Recorded Sound. Marx said the three-month closing had been The renovations, to be financed with $2 scheduled for the summer because of staff million in city capital funds, will include a and contractors' schedules and because the humidity control system to improve the con­ six-month project had to be completed in servation of research material and new 1995. mechanisms for air circulation and fire safe­ .Academic scholars and researchers may ty. The collections are expected to reopen on arrange to have specific material to be sent Sept. 18, although minor construction is to to the central library on 42nd Street during continue for 12 more weeks. the closing by calling the appropriate divi­ ../' The circulating collections on the first sion by the end of May. and second floor and most of the exhibition spaces will remain open.

A Voice Crying •in the Wilderness By John Phillips Tasmania, Australia This isn't really a letter about mechanical music at all but it is about a word that occurs frequently in the AMICA Bulletin. That word is "collectible". Every time I read it my heartbeat goes up to a dangerous rate and I see the world through a film of blood. Doesn't the word mean "worthy of collection" or "able to be collected"? In that case why don't people spell it "collec­ table"? After all, you say that a dress is wearable or a girl is kissable (if that is your inclination). You don't say that fast food is sometimes barely eatible. I think that writing collectible is just contemptible. Now I feel a lot better. ------.------Dear Robin, This item was of great interest to me. Heniot Levy's brother Stanley was my piano instructor in 1938. He told of Heniot making Welte piano rolls. I have one of the two, VARIATIONS ON ORIGINAL THEME - Levy, Part 2, Roll C 7324 (orig. price $2.00). I would like to know if anyone has Roll #1 and also to hear them on a piano with Welte. This is the Welte - gold label on box dated 1923. Emmett Ford ------0------/f Among summer recitals to be noted is the concert by David Bispham and Heniot Levy at the American Conservatory, and the recital by Leon Sametini, at the Ziegfeld Theatre, assisted by Rudolph Reuter, all of them eminent artists who always please. -----0 1921

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Dear Robin, ~ It is some 2 or 3 years since I last wrote that a friend of mine, John Phillips from Tasmania, Australia, wrote the short request on my behalf which he thought might be of intent to members of AMICA? I hope to meet members of AMICA on the visit to U.K. in August at Durbwich College when I will have a stand at the "Mart" and maybe even a go at the "pumper" contest. Any members coming to U.K. could reserve copies of catalogues now for collection in August. I am in the Player Piano Group here in U.K. and enjoy it. Perhaps you can tell me if back issues of AMICA Bulletin will be available at Durbwich College meeting? Sincerely, Kevin McElhone Telephone 1536-523988 THE THRILL OF THE HUNT By John Phillips, Member ACMMI - Australia Two or three years ago, a colleague mentioned that he'd come across a big heap of piano rolls with pins sticking out of the ends in an antique shop in the center of Tasmania. "65-note rolls", I said, "Thanks, but I'm not really interested in those." I did, however, mention them to a friend in Melbourne, who pointed out that they might be organ rolls. I forgot about them until just before last Christmas, when my friend phoned up to ask if I'd ever tracked them down. He had another friend who was looking for Aeolian Grand rolls for his Orchestrelle. It took only two calls to locate them and the proprietress said she would put a sample copy on the bus for Hobart. When it arrived, it turned out to be a Wilcox and White Angelus and Symphony roll, and all the others were the same, so the proprietress said. Bad luck for the Melbourne collector. However, within a couple of days a Bulletin from the British Player Piano Group arrived containing a letter from Kevin McElhone. He is trying to put together a catalogue of Angelus ,,! and Symphony rolls and is appealing to anyone who has any to send him a list of titles, numbers and composers. So on New Year's Eve my long-suffering wife, Beryl, and I made the trip up to Campbell Town and spent a couple of hours going through some very grubby cartons of rolls, writing all the details down. In fact they weren't all A & S rolls; of the two hundred or so, fifty were Aeolian Grand rolls after all. So the collector in Melbourne was iil luck - he bought the lot! Out of the hundred and fifty A & S rolls, about ninety were titles new to Kevin and he bought some of them, and a couple ofcollectors from New Zealand bought some more. So everyone was happy, especially the antique shop lady. Now comes the point of this letter. Kevin's hunt for a complete A & 5 roll list is far from over. If you have any of these rolls, would you let him have a list of the titles, numbers and composers? It's a really worthwhile project. But Kevin's interests don't stop there. He is also assembling catalogs of the following types of organ rolls: Aeolian 46-note, Aeolian - Hammond, Phoneon 6l-note, Cecelian 65-note (piano), and Pianostyle 88-note (piano). If you have any of these rolls, a list of titles, etc., or photocopy of original catalog (costs covered) will be gratefully accepted by Kevin. He has asked me to mention that he has these catalogs complete and ready for sale: Aeolian 58-note, nearly 7,000 titles, 400+ pages - $50.00 (U.S. $) Aeolian 116-note and l76-note (Duo-Art), 1500 and 600 titles - $50.00 (U.S: $) Gem 20 and 32 note cobs, 1100 and 250 titles - $17.00 (U.S. $) All these catalogs have sections by number and title and some have player and composer sections as well. All prices include shipping. Checks should be written in U.S. dollars to R. Poppe and mailed to Kevin McElhone, 159 Beatrice Road, Kettering, Northants, NN16 9QR, England. It's worth mentioning that Julian Dyer, of the British PPG, is at present getting copies made of the 1928 Universal .Piano Roll Catalog - 192 pages, cost around £ 10. :;II' Phone me at (002) 278324 for details, or write to me, John Phillips, 29 Channel Highway, Taroona, Tasmania., Australia 7053. I can't wait to get my copy!

175 --Letters to the Editor (uont.)--- Dear Editor, In the JanuarylFebruary 1995 issue of the Bulletin, an article called "The Band Organ" appeared with Ron Bopp as r its author. This article was excerpted from the MBSI Muscatine, Iowa, Band Organ Rally Program. As prolific as Dr. Bopp has been in writing about mechanical musical instruments, he did not write the Muscatine program article which was actually penned by one of his committee members, Mike Schoeppner, also from the Heart of America Chapter. Mike, in turn, acknowledges using some of the ideas and words from Fred Dahlinger's program for the 1985 Fremont, Ohio, Band Organ Rally when he authored the Muscatine program article. Since I submitted the article for publication, I humbly apologize to Mike Schoeppner, Fred Dahlinger, Ron Bopp, and all the readers of the AMICA Bulletin for my mistake and wish to set the record straight should any chapters like to use the information for general public educational literature at instrument displays, rallies, conventions, etc. I would like to suggest that all articles written for programs be printed with the author's name and any bibliographic references cited so that such confusion will not occur again. Most apologetically yours, Cynthia Craig • Dear Robin, In his first "President's Message" in the Bulletin, Maury asked for articles on bringing automated music into the pub­ lic eye. The museum where I work has been helping do this for about ten years, so here's my contribution: In 1985, the Fielder Museum (now the Texas State Museum of History), a historical museum in Arlington, Texas was given an 88-note pumper. At this point I had been a volunteer there for about two years, and sort of took the piano under my wing. . As part of their history class, most of the third grades in Arlington come through the museum, and, as part of the tour, ,/ I we play the piano for them. The look on their faces when the piano begins to play is something to see - they are utterly amazed. Some of the classes write thank you notes, and the piano is almost always mentioned as one of the things they liked the most. In many cases this is the first exposure these children have had to a player piano, and its not unusual for them to come back later with their families and request to hear the piano again. More than once they have brought their younger siblings who didn't believe their older brother or sister's talk about our piano. Although there are many other vis­ itors I enjoy playing piano for, it is the children who seem to enjoy it the most. Bryan Cather

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Dear Robin, Re: Cherkassky 1995 Recital, S.F. (program enclosed). This was SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY a memorable event. A difficult program but superbly played. A large crown turned out. There were two encores:

Stravinsky's "Circus Polka" and MUSIC DIRECTOR Cherkassky's "Prelude Pathetique", which he wrote at G RE AT PERFORMERS S ER ES age 11 and recorded on a Victor Blue Seal acoustic 78 as well as a Sunday. /9 February /995 at 7:00. Davies Symphony Hall Duo-Art roll, circa 1923. SHURA CHERKASSKY piano It was amazing hearing him play this piece in 1995! It SCHUBERT Four Impromptus, 0.899 received much applause, as did No. ) in C minor the entire recital! No.2 in E-flat major Best Wishes, No.3 in G-flat major No.4 in A-flat major Bill Knorp

SCHUMANN Fantasy in C major, Opus 17 With fantasy and passion throughout In moderate tempo. En~rgetically throughout Slow and sustained. Quiet throughout

Intermission

CHOPIN Fantasy in F minor, Opus 49

Ballade No.1 in G minor, Opus 23

RUBI:"STEIN Barcarolle No.2 in A minor

Melody in F major, Opus 3, no. )

LISZT Polonaise NO.2 in E major

Please be sure the eleaml/it' s/gl/(// all vour '~'arch or pager is switched offduril/g the (,OJ/CUI.

177 Sent in by Jim Caterina and also Emmett Ford

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, APRIL 19, 1995 r Steinway & Sons Is Sold for $100 Million

By KENNETH N. GILPIN the third time in its illustrious his­ Fostle, author of "Steinway Saga," tory that Steinway has changed a book about the company to be Steinway & Sons, the piano hands. released by Scribner's on May 1. manufacturer that has been a New In 1972, Henry Z. Steinway, the According to Mr. Fostle, sales York institution since its founding founder's great-grandson, sold the of upright pianos in the United by Henrich E. Steinway in 1853, company to CBS for an undis­ States have fallen since 1988 by was sold yesterday for $100 mil­ closed price, ending family con­ more than 40 percent, and show lion to the Selmer Company, a trol. Then, in 1985, a group of few signs of coming back. maker of musical instruments. investors led by John P. Competing with the huge pool A private company that is prob­ Birmingham and his brother of surviving Steinways is another ably most famous for its Selmer Robert M. Birmingham, bought serious problem. saxophone, an instrument used by Steinway for a price rumored to "It's as if every Ford built since both amateur and professional be in excess of $50 million. 1903 is still on the road and is as musicians including President In an interview, John good as a Lincoln Continental," Clinton and Kenny G. Selmer, is Birmingham said "personal rea­ Mr. Fostle said. "There is no way controlled by two young former sons" prompted the group to seek to get rid of those pianos." Drexel Burnham Lambert invest­ a buyer for Steinway about four In the interview, Mr. ment bankers who purchased their months ago. Birmingham acknowledged that stake in the company in 1993. Without disclosing what his the piano market in the United .,/'" Under the terms of the transac­ group paid for the company, he States was mature, and that the tion, Selmer and Steinway will said the $100 million sale price company's biggest competition continue to operate as independent "beats inflation by a little bit" was from "our own used pianos." entities, with no changes in man­ over what was paid a decade ago. But he said the quality problems agement, plant locations, market­ Still, people familiar with had been solved. ing strategy or total employment. Steinway and the piano industry's In coming years, Mr. Each company employs about problems, said they were amazed Birmingham said the company 1,000 people. the company fetched that much. was likely to find demand from "We are very excited," said Over the last 10 years, critics aging baby boomers, as well as Dana Messina, who along with his have been quick to fault Steinway foreign markets. partner, Kyle Kirkland, controls for what they say is a decline in Steinway employs about 500 Selmer. "We think it is quite an the quality of its new pianos, people in the United States. The honor to become part of the team which currently sell for as much company also has a manufacturing with Steinway." as $75,800. In addition, the com­ plant in Hamburg, Germany. Last Steinway has been producing pany has had to fight what some year the company had sales of a concert grand and baby grand contend is a decline in demand, as little more than $100 million. pianos for many of the world's well as compete with a huge sup­ Selmer, based in Elkhart, most accomplished pianists from ply ofolder Steinway pianos. Indiana, recorded earnings of a lit­ its factory in Long Island City, The $100 million price is "an tle less that $3 million on revenue Queens, since shortly after the extraordinary number, and does of $101.1 million last year. turn of the century. The sale marks not seem rational," said D.W.

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178 STODDARD-AMPICO PLEASES GRAND DUKE ALEXANDER.

Interesting Illustration of C heck, Receipt and Bill for Instrument Sent to Palace of Russian Grand Duke by the American Piano Co.

The accompanying illustra­ tions complete a most interest­ ing sale made a few months since in the retail warerooms of William Knabe & Co. lt is not every day in the week that a Grand Duke visits a local house to purchase a player piano, and incidentally this sale of a Knabe Stoddard-Ampico to the Grand Duke Alexander was consummated without the usual demonstrations and visits that characterize the average player sale. The Grand Duke selected a comprehensive assortment of rolls when purchasing his Stoddard-Ampico, and judging from the illustration here-with he is well satisfied with his player in every particular. It has been shipped to his palace in St. Petersburg, Russia.

-Music Trade Review NOY.29,1913

179 The organ occupies a commanding spot in the former Charles Ringling Mansion's (l beamed-and-paneled Piping music room.

A metallic forest, the pipes, below, of the restored Aeolian organ take up a room of their own in the mansion, now College Hall at the University of South By Art Levy, Staff Writer Florida/New College From the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Sarasota. Tues., March 14, 1995

A monumental but dilapi­ dated organ is restored to magnificence after send­ ing out what some say was a cry for help

s organs go, this one's a little spooky. A few years back, "t1 when it was too old and too broken down to make a sound, the organ in the Old ACharles Ringling mansion made one, any­ way. Although it hadn't been played for more than 20 years, the organ struck three notes during a memorial service, just as a tearful son was eulogizing his mother. People who were there swear it's true. "We all had the shivers," said Ron Heiser of Sarasota. "We just kind of looked at each other." The deceased, Christiane Felsmann, was a longtime supporter of New College, and her son, Gregory Dubois, went to school there. That's why the memorial service was held in the mansion, which is part of USF's New College campus and is known now as College Hall. "It was like she was trying to tell Gregory that she was there." said Mary Lou Wingerter, who attended the service. ~fl "It was almost like she must have been looking down and been there, like a ghost. It was really eerie."

180 The news eventually made its way For its time, it was quite a piece of "We've had a great time doing it," to Vernon Blanch, the 63-year-old technology. said Yvonne George, a group member. founder of the Manasota Theater Organ "This basically is a 1926 computer," "We're going to miss it when it's all Society. Blanch said, pointing to some of the done. It was what you'd call a labor of And it gave him an idea. organ's internal parts. "What we have love." His group would restore the old here is the Cadillac of all the residen­ The group made an agreement with organ so anyone could play it, mortal, tialorgans." the college in which it provided the ghost or otherwise. To duplicate such an organ today, labor for free, as long as the college That was nearly three years ago, and Blanch said, it would cost about $2 paid for the materials. the group, after more than 4,000 hours million. In 1926, the Aeolian Co. of While most of the parts had to be of tedious labor, is just about done. New York, which is now out of busi­ cleaned and refurbished with new The organ will be unveiled April 2 ness, built it for $40,000. leather or felt, nothing major had to be as part of the campus' 20th anniversary That was a lot of money back then ­ replaced, which kept the cost down. celebration. unless you were a Ringling. The group had a $20,000 budget, but as Its restoration comes only after a Charles Ringling's uncle, John the work nears completion, $6,000 has relentless effort by Blanch and his Ringling, who built his mansion, been spent. group. Ca'd'Zan, just a little way down the "We were very frugal," Blanch said. When they went to work, the organ road, also had an Aeolian organ. "We didn't skimp, but we didn't spend wasn't any better off than a junk car on Bill Van Pelt, executive director of unnecessarily." cement blocks. the Organ Historical Society in For all their work, group members It didn't run. Richmond, VA, said a total of about will get to hold monthly meetings at In fact, when Blanch first inspected 1,000 Aeolians were built when the the mansion and play the organ after­ the organ, he was puzzled at how it company was in business during the wards. They'll also maintain the organ, could have made any noise at all. early 1900s. which requires constant attention and "If you knew anything about organs, Van Pelt isn't sure how many are repair. and saw the condition of that organ, it left, or how many are still working, but If not, it could quickly fall into dis­ was impossible for any sound to come he said an Aeolian is a rare find today. repair again. out of that organ," Blanch said. "No The Ringling organs are the only "If you don't use it, it rots," Blanch way. No way." two in Southwest Florida and Blanch said. j Blanch speculates that if the organ said the only other one he knows of in With his group preventing that from played at the memorial service, it must Florida is in Miami. Aeolian almost happening, Blanch hopes that New have had a little help from the super­ exclusively inst~led its organs in man­ College students will become interest­ natural. sions. ed in the organ and perhaps the school "Not that I believe in the spiritual "It was a real status symbol t'O have can use it for music classes. world, or don't believe in the spiritual one of these organs," Blanch said. "The Susan McConnell, a college spokes­ world," he said. "But the only thing I millionaires were trying to keep up woman, said that might happen eventu­ can say is the organ must have heard with each other." ally, but for now, the school plans only about us and was saying: 'Help! to use the organ for occasional public Help!'" Asweet sound concerts. No matter how the organ is used, While status might have had some­ thing to do with Ringling's reason for Blanch is just happy that his group has A1926 Computer a place to meet and an organ to play. Built in 1926, the organ is so big wanting an organ, it isn't why the He said his group wants to someday and complicated, it can't be contained members of the Manasota Theater obtain and restore its own organ, but is in one place. Organ Society wanted to restore it. satisfied for now with the one in The console, decorated with green Taking it apart, piece by piece, fix-· and gold murals, sits in the mansion's ing it, restoring it, and putting it all .College Hall. . When Blanch hears even a single music room, while the organ's 2,520 back together was dirty, sweaty work. pipes are behind a nearby wall. The But they did it because they knew a note, he knows all the work was worth pipes, which range in thickness from reward was coming: hearing it play. it. "So many times, you feel like pillars to pencils, are packed in a room "It has such a sweet sound," Blanch throwing your hands in the air," he 30 feet long, 22 feet tall and 8 feet said. "It ranges from everything fro.m a said. "You think you have something deep. whisper to a dynamic, overwhelming, fixed, but you find you don't, and you Rooms upstairs contain the 7.5 gut-wrenching sound. It's a sound that .horsepower wind-generating blower, a will raise your hair." have to tear it all out and dig back in. But to hear it all come together, that's '" vacuum pump, leather bellows and var­ To experience'. that sound, Blanch ious, intricate electrical connections and his 58-member group have been thrilling.• that make it all work. willing to devote most of their spare time since 1992.

181 TECH TIPS ,r

Another tip for other German built "original" Welte vorsetzers (Possibly applicable to other styles.) By Roy Powlan The open pool of mercury in the on/off switch may be replaced with BB shot or very small steel ball bearings which act as a conductive "liquid" in the switch. This also allows for the removal of the asbestos shield on the switch which presumably kept the liquid mercury from splashing about during vigorous play. I rarely endorse any form of modification from original specifications since it is my firm belief that the original designers of this machinery knew exactly how to achieve the results they required with the available technology. Here however, modem understanding of these materials must be acknowledged as superior. Safety concerns demand their replacement. I have employed this modification on my vorsetzer for years with excellent results. The Thread We Dread By John Phillips Anyone that has worked on an Aeolian player action (vii) Be careful when tightening the screw. My feeling is knows that the valves are assembled with about a million 4­ that the new hole isn't as strong as the original was. gauge, 3/8", round-head woodscrews. It is going to be a very The point of the wood slivers is to give the new thread ,/ lucky rebuilder who doesn't find at least one of the corre­ a bit of resilience that epoxy by itself lacks, but I don't sponding screw-holes in the wood with a stripped thread. The know whether that really happens or not. following procedure is one possible cure. The above method has certainly got me out of trouble but (i) Dip the woodscrew in grease and then wipe all the sur­ I'd be really interested to know if anyone has a better way? plus grease off, leaving just a greasy film on its sur­ I'm sure the editor of this journal would like a note describ­ face. ing it. (ii) Mix up a very small quantity of epoxy adhesive - not Most woodscrews in player actions are rusty and I've the 5-mi.nute variety - and half-fill the offending hole adopted the following de-rusting and preserving procedure. in the wood. I transfer the adhesive drop by drop on a First brush off all loose rust, using a wire brush for big needle to avoid getting it allover the surface of the screws. I deal with the really small screws by putting them in wood. a screw-topped jar with some washed sand and slowly tum­ (iii) Cut four very thin slivers of wood about 114" long. (I bling them in the jaws of a lathe for about twenty minutes. use a slivers from a match.) Slide them one by one Then dump them in a jar of phosphoric acid rust-dissolver for down the wall of the hole and into the epoxy. Place about ten minutes. Rinse them in hot water, tum them out them as evenly as you can around the hole. Make sure onto paper toweling and dry them immediately with a hair none of the slivers protrudes out of the top of the hole. dryer. Dip the screws into slightly thinned metal priming paint and spread them out on newspaper. Push each screw (iv) Place the tip of the greasy woodscrew in the hole, around several times until all the surplus paint has drained off making sure it goes inside all the wood slivers. Screw it; then leave them to dry. Make sure you have counted your it in until it is almost (but not quite) at the depth it will screws; it is very easy to loose one amongst all those be when the valve is re-assembled. splodges of paint. I usually dress up the heads of the screws (v) Carefully wipe away any epoxy that has oozed out of with a touch of black enamel, but this may be considered to the hole and then don't touch the screw for 48 hours. be over-restoring. (vi) To re-assemble the valve, first unscrew the woodscrew. Why not just use new screws? Well, I've found that, for r" This should break any bond that may have formed some of the big screws at least, American and Australian between the epoxy and the metal, leaving behind a threads are not quite the same, so the old screws have to be screw-shaped thread inside the hole. Sand off any re-used. feathers of epoxy around the edge of the hole.

182 Ne"Ws FroDl The Chapters

With the London AMICA Convention just around the corner, we had a wonderful surprise at our meeting: Rex Lawson and Michael Boyd from Jolly Old England. They have an interest­ ing Convention planned with some great tours. If you have not signed up, it's not too late. Let's all go to England! Our March 25th meeting at the Erb's in Hayward was a sell­ Thanks Sara and Alan for having all of us. out; 35+ members were on hand to enjoy Alan and Sara's col­ lection. Another reason for the excellent turnout was the beauti­ ful weather after two and one-half months of rain. I can't put enough emphasis on the instruments in the Erb's collection. Each one plays perfectly, from the "A" roll Seeburg to the large Bursens dance organ. They also have a fine collec­ tion of music boxes; my favorit~ is the console Empress. As I reported at the last meeting at the Erb's (and I'll say it again), they have the best sounding Mills Violano. They also have a wonderful Frati hand cranked barrel organ. Sara confessed why it sounded so good: they worked until midnight several nights tuning the pipes. I'm glad they did - it was a crowd-pleaser. I know Sara's secret on exercise, and you can forget the Nordic Track. I watched her spin the big flywheel on the Frati, and that is really a workout! Alan played each instrument and gave a brief history of each; very interesting. Alan is building small Yes - Rex Lawson trying to figure out how to get this /53 back house organs that play an "A" roll and are voiced for the home. to London. This is a cute little machine.

Sara & Allen beaming with their new "House Organ ", hand Michael Boyd (left) and Ed Sprankle (right) enjoying the carved/ront, plays an "A" roll. It's great! Wurlitzer.

Just a few AMICAns enjoying the 153 Wurlitzer, each with cool Sara spinning the fly wheel on the Frati - enjoying every note it drink - it was warm! plays - us too! 183 Our last meeting was held at the Player Shop in Monrovia, and what a meeting! Our hosts, Charles Smith and Ron Sanchez really put on a show for us. To start off the meeting, we were serenaded by a Seeburg "H", which is a treat both for the eyes and ears. What a gor­ geous cabinet, and what fun music. We were treated to "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby," and ended with a rousing arrangement of "Sleigh Ride," which was arranged for the orchestrion by the late David lunchen. After that, we heard three selections on the Mollar "Artiste" organ player, followed by a concert on the Aeolian "Duo-Art" organ player. The selections on this instrument were really spectacular, including "In the Halls of the Mountain King" and The lovely Seeburg "H". "In A Persian Market," both of which really showed off the instrument to its fullest advantage. Yet another ... the Welte "Philharmonic" organ player, which has a ten-roll changer. This was lighter music for the most part, and it was all happy. f At intermission we had snacks, and as always, AMICAns do manage to clean off a table. Our last instrument to hear was the Chas. M. Stieff Welte­ Mignon "Licensee" reproducing grand. What a wonderful instrument, and the selections ranged from fairly heavy classical to light and happy popular selections. We had a business meeting, and it was announced by our treasurer th&t we have sold 2 I 3 table favors since the Convention and we are down to only a few. Our treasury is in good condition. We have twenty-five people from southern California plan­ Our group enjoying the demonstration. ning on going to the AMICA Convention in Europe, and most of them were at this meeting. Our hosts were thanked very strongly for the wonderful meeting. We had a good turnout, and everyone enjoyed it. After the meeting ended, most of us went out to a local eatery for dinner, and that was just the perfect end to a wonder­ ful day. Our next meeting will be the weekend of May 6 & 7 in Solvang. That should be a fun time, complete with a small Monkey Organ Rally in the park. There are a lot of neat things available to us that weekend, so we are looking forward to that. In September, AMICA and MBSI will present another - our Second Annual Band Organ Rally. The place is not yet firm, but we are looking at several nice areas ... should be fun.

Charles Smith one ofour Iwsts telling us some ofthe history of the instruments.

184 All in all, a spirit of good fellowship abounded, and I think each one of us left ready to go home and pack (lightly, of course!) to get ready to go. It is so much fun to get together to work things out and make plans. We really thank Victoria and Richard ... good idea, folks!!!!

Well, it's break time, and the snack table is offto the left ofthe picture, as are most ofthe group.

Dawn Pumphry came with a lot of phamplets ofthings to do, many furnished by Dorothy and Tony Clayton.

Ron Sanchez one ofour hosts explaining some of the technicalities. Southern California European Convention Meeting Looks like study hall doesn't it? As I have said elsewhere, twenty-five people from south­ Boy, will we be educated travelers! ern California are planning for the European AMICA Convention, and it was decided to have a meeting of those (Roy Sheko, seated, Herb Stockinger, Frank Nix & Ruth Sewell.) going to compare notes, offer information, and generally plan a little more. Victoria Schenkelberg had a meeting at her lovely home, and she put on a dinner for all of us. We spent our time comparing notes, asking questions, and generally talk­ ing "shop." Richard Rigg gave us all the latest information from Dorothy Bromage, and a lot of that was really helpful. Everyone had questions it seemed...one of the most popular was "What is it going to cost us to stay after the Convention and travel around?" Of course, the answer to that is probably best summed up in one word ..."Lots!!!!" The dollar is not --< cooperating with us, and it seems things will be expensive, but a couple of us came with books or just advice on how to keep things in check. Some of us had been to Europe before, Here is the group - minus Shirley Nix, who was behind the and could advise the newly initiated on staying in B & Bs camera. Is Europe ready for this invasion? rather than large hotels, and how to save money on meals. 185 Jeff Davis showed us original copies of the books "Pianos and Their Makers" and 'The Presto Buyer's Guide." Harry Blond updated us on his computer search for lost piano roll . _artists. He has located several and is attempting to contact 1 . them. Carl Dodrill reported on the progress made in the restoration of his 1927 Duo-Art pipe organ. The instrument was originally installed in Montreal, Canada. Dan Brown showed his roll repair frame and, with Ron Babb assisting, presented a roll repair demonstration and gave some sources for roll repair supplies. The potluck dinner was delicious as always, and as we dined, we listened to the Duo-Art and Reproduco. The Pacific Can-Am Chapter mid-winter meeting was held After the meeting, 10 members went to the annual Ragtime on February 25th at the home of Bill Chapman and John Cabaret featuring the Cornucopia Dance Band. The Cornucopia Ohrenstein in Seattle, Washington. Their home on Lake band provided the music for the Seattle AMICA Convention Washington provides a sweeping view of the lake, the floating dinner dance. This band performs music from the turn-of-the­ bridges and the Cascade Mountains. The playing of the Weber century dressed in period costume and playing from original WR Duo-Art entertained the 21 chapter members and guests as arrangements. All who attended, danced and had a wonderful they toured Bill and John's fascinating collection which evening. includes a Reproduco pipe organ, radios, phonographs, the Thanks to all who attended the meeting and a special thank Weber and several instruments awaiting restoration. you to Bill and John for opening their lovely home for us. The business meeting was called to order and after member introductions, a special welcome was extended to new mem­ bers Carl and Halie Dodrill and Mark Smithberg, and to guests Jim Swanson of Seattle and Joseph LarendervHle of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A short business meeting was followed by "Show and Tell" and a technical demonstration. 1

Ron, Ken Campbell, Harry, Weber Duo-Art. Tom Powell, Larry Slosson, Fran, Jeff Davis, Maury, Mark, Bill, and Jim Swanson.

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Mark Smithberg, Carl Dodrill, Reproduco, Maury, Maury, Ray Parkinson, Ron, Ken Campbell, and Bill and Harry. Joseph Larendervillle (unsure ofspelling). 186 L____

Cornucopia Concert Band Ragtime Cabaret. BeverLy Sharp and Ray Parkinson

Fran and Maury Our Hosts, John Ohrenstein and BiLL Chapman

Joe LarenderviLLe. Ted MihoLovich, HaLie & Carl Dodrill, Larry SLossen. Fran Willyard

Dan and Myra

CarL & HaLie Dodrill, Fran Willyard 187 Warm and sunny weather in a south western Missouri town Linda & Gerold Koehler with the "Yellow Ribbon" Orchestra. of Joplin became the site of the annual Christmas meeting of the Heart of America Chapter. The festivities began on Saturday afternoon with our hosts, Gerold and Linda Koehler in their spacious home and music room(s). The Koehlers have a large collection of automated musical instruments: nickelodeons, reproducing pianos (2 in the great room), automata, and coin-op machines. The newest addition to the collection was the "Yellow Ribbon" Orchestrion build up, with 24 pipes, piano, mandolin rail and decorative art glass by Willis Oestmann. The piano mechanism was rebuilt by Harvey Way. There were many things to see and listen to that the time flew like a thistle and we needed food and drink to wet our whistle. Dinner was at the local steak house, and no Members pose before the Bersens Dance Organ. dessert because we were going to the Bopp's for that. Members were met with the sound of Christmas music on the Miner Tangley calliope at Ron and Mary Jo Bopp's home. Inside we found a harvest table filled with luscious desserts and the familiar scent of Christmas lingered through­ out the house. Downstairs in the music room, Ron entertained members with the newest member of the collection: a Jager and Brommer 20-key street organ from Waldkirch, Germany. All of the instruments were played and enjoyed and a small mart with selling, trading and buying took place. Sunday, back at the Koehler's, a wonderful and delicious brunch was prepared by Linda with the help of her son, Greg and daughter, Heather. The business meeting was conducted by the President of the Chapter, Bill Pohl and new officers Katie Hellstein, Gerold, Linda, John Washburn, Craig Brougher were elected and voted for: John Washburn, President, and Kay Bode are smiling because they think they got presents. Sandy Schoeppner, Vice President and Rick McDowell, Secretary/Treasurer. Now that the business meeting was behind us, it was on to bigger and better things like the annual "gift exchange". Presents were coming and going from mem­ bers hands faster than Santa's exit up the chimney. Lots of laughter and lots of fun with good friends. When you are reading this, spring will have sprung and we will be having our chapter's annual Organ Rally in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas with Gordie Davidson as our host for this event. Hope your holidays were memorable.

Singers Kay Bode, Ron Bopp, Gerald the clown, Katie & Tom Hellstein belt out Christmas tunes. 188 Ampico Piano, an Aeolian player organ, a Coinola model "0", paper roll organs, and assorted musical boxes. Also advertised were a View-Master and Tru-Vu collection and many battery

I operated toys. Upon arrival, we soon discovered that Ginger U has her own collectibles in the form of cow-pitchers, all in a long row on plate rails head high along the kitchen walls. There were at least 150 of them, and the countries of origin were also many. The player organ was just inside the door, and recently replaced the coinola, that has moved downstairs. During our initial get together, Ken Volk played a few rolls on the player organ and it performed very well. After some talk, and a sam­ ple or two of the refreshment table goodies, some of us wan­ dered downstairs where the next surprise was found. Our host, Chris is a tool maker, and he is also a collector of just about Ron & Mary Jo Bopp with the Miner Tangley Calliope. anything available at salvage yards, flea markets, local auctions and yard sales. None of our group can come near competing in the vast collection of "stuff', all bought at very reasonable cost. The span of interest ranges from a Volkswagen Type I engine on a stand in mint restoration condition, to a machine shop to an electronic shop both complete with labeled storage drawers of spare parts. The consensus of the male membership was sheer envy. The ladies weren't consulted. Don Rand came down from Maine and brought a collection of goodies that included photograph prints of roll recording artists and long gone factories plus some Clark Band Organ Rolls and a Wurlitzer Master roll of a single song at 3 to I spacing. I doubt that many among us had ever seen a band organ master roll with the original editing marks and correc­ tions. Joining us at this meeting was Dorothy Bromage, also Barbara & John Washburn..the Bopps, Galen Bird, Craig down from Maine. She has been very busy with the 1995 Brougher and Sandy & Mike Schoeppner listen to the Jager and AMICA Convention in England, and explained that the trans­ Brommer Street Organ. ocean arrangements don't have the enjoyable work parties that were great fun preparing for the Boston Convention a few years ago. She said that various illnesses had diminished the standby list and that two AMICAns could still sign up as of that date. President Bob Hunt held a business meeting, and we heard that one of our members was leaving our area and parting with his house and pipe organ. We have had many visits and meet­ ings there, and seen the organ rise from a cellar assembly to the loft installation complete with horseshoe console also contain­ ing three roll frames to allow concerts by 88-note rolls, nick­ elodeon rolls and band organ rolls. We caught up on the mem­ Heart ofAmerica Chapter members, Happy Holidays. ber projects, and we are trying to interest the younger people in the love affair we share in mechanical music makers.

The mid-March meeting of the Boston Area Chapter was held in nearby Nashua, New Hampshire, at the home of Chris and Ginger Christiansen. The featured collection included an Aeolian Player Piano

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Ginger Christiansen, and some ofher cow pitchers. Dorothy Bromage, Alan Pier, Helen Volk, and Althea Pat!.

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The electronic section amazed us all. Don Rand shows Sandy Libman a Wurlitzer Master roll, I song.

Host, Chris made available several "free" treasure boxes to us. President, Bob Hunt leads business meeting.

190 ~~ ~~ ~fC' Instructions for Operating ,.~ ~ ~~ Recording Machine and Spark Chronograph "'

From the files of Carl L. Schneider

Amphion Piano Player Company 681 North Clinton St., Syracuse, New York

Compiled and Edited by Richard Howe and Jeffrey Morgan From Rough Draft Marked: "Original from Research Dept. 1926"

INSTRUCTIONS FOR OPERATING APPARATUS USED IN THE NEW RECORDING SYSTEM

General Description of Apparatus

There are four principle units used in obtaining recordings under the new system:

First - The recording piano with its two contact systems.

~cond - The Signal system (one portion of which is located in the drawer of a desk in the recording room).

Third - The recording unit which consists of a great deal of electrical apparatus mounted on a table in the operating room.

Fourth - The developing apparatus which is used for developing the dynamic record after it has been obtained on the recording unit.

The Recording Piano

There are two contact systems on the recording piano - one for use in obtaining the position of notes and pedals on the note sheet, the other for obtaining the intensity with which each note is played. The latter system is called the dynamic system. Neither of these contact systems are likely to cause a great deal of trouble. Use of the piano for practice purposes will probably not injure the con­ tacts themselves; nevertheless it is not advisable to use the piano for practicing in as much as the wear on the hammers and piano action in general make it necessary to have frequent action adjust­ ments made. Each time it is necessary for the action adjuster to work on the piano a portion of the dynamic contact system must be removed. In removing this wntact system there is always danger of _(i\ injuring the contacts, and of replacing them improperly. These facts make it imperative that the record- ~ ~ ~~ Ing piano be subjected to as lillie use as possible. .x~ ~~ ~M 191

Signal System

The Signal system used in the new recording scheme is the same as has been used for the past two years, the pilot lights, tempo indicators, switches, etc., controlled by the editor, are in the drawer ofl the small desk in the recording room. That portion of the signal system used by the person operating the recording unit is located on the recording unit table.

The Recording Unit

The recording unit consists of a table on which is mounted the complete electrical systems by which the note sheet and dynamic sheet records are obtained. The following brief description of these parts indicates the names of the various pieces of apparatus used in their construction. Note Sheet Record - This record is obtained in about the same manner as it was with the old machine. The apparatus used in obtaining this record, which is located on the recording unit table, has the following principal parts:

First - Note Sheet Machine, which consists of supply spool, take-up spool, carbon drum, electromagnets, tracking contact system, etc.

Second - Note Sheet Motor governor drive with rheostat for driVing the take-up spool at any speed from tempo zero up to tempo 120.

Third - Tracking motor for keeping paper in proper track as it passes over carbon drum.

Fourth - Motor generator with rheostat and volt motor for obtaining 15 volt current for note contacts and electromagnets.

Dynamic Sheet Record - This record is obtained by an electrical system. The following principle parts of this system are located on the recording unit table:

First - Dynamic sheet machine which consists of supply spool, take-up spool, rotor, gov­ erned rotor motor and rheostat, platens, code elements, code contacts, etc.

Second - Dynamic sheet motor governor drive with rheostat for driving take-up spool at any speed from tempo zero to tempo 130.

Third - Electrical units for producing the proper current for the dynamic record. ([here are nine of these units in use, and one spare which may quickly be substituted for any defec­ tive unit.) Pony relay for controlling electric current used in recording the code on the dynamic sheet.

Fourtli - Sixteen rheostats for regulating the current used in recording the dynamics.

Signal System - This system is the same as used in the old recording machine - the recording table unit has .a three-way switch, signal lamp, signal switch, and tempo indicato~.

Developing Apparatus This device consists of a table on which is mounted two systems of supports for dynamic sheet spools. The sheet is wound from one spool to the other with the glazed side of the paper passing over the drum which rotates in a bath of developing solution. The bath vessel is constructed so that it may be filled by forcing developing solution up from a glass jar by means of compressed air. There is an air-pump on the side of the table for this purpose.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING APPARATUS Note Sheet Machine (1) Starting, Stopping, Etc. The general current supply to the dynamic unit table may be plugged in from 110 volt direct current to the receptacle at the right hand end of the table. There are seven switches on the front top of the table. From left to right these switches are labeled "DYNAMIC CURRENT", "NOTE CUR­ RENT''', "DYNAMIC SHEET", "NOTE SHEET", "TRUNK", "SIGNAL", and "ROTOR". Pushing the white buttons down closes the electrical circuits of these SWitches. For starting the note sheet motor drive press one of the white buttons on the switch marked "TRUNK", then press the' white button marked "NOTE SHEET". This starts the note sheet take-up spool revolVing. _The Tempo indicator immediately to the left of the note sheet machine regulates the speed at which this take-up spool rotates. In order to stop this machine press the black button of the switch marked "NOTE SHEET". If it is desired to remove the take-up spool with the record which has been taken, the note sheet should be cut in two with a penknife just above the take-up spool. The take-up spool with its record may be removed by pressing to the right and thus disengaging the driving end. If it is desired to remove the paper from the 195 take-up spool while it is still in the machine, this may be done by disengaging the little pinion gear on the left hand side of the note sheet machine. In order to reengage this pinion with the two gears with which it meshes, it is sometimes necessary to move these gears slightly with one hand while the pin- ion gear is being thrust in with the fingers of the other hand. Never try to disengage or reengage / this pinion while the machine is running.

(2) Threading Note Sheet Machine With New Paper. First, with a penknife, cut the note sheet paper on the rear side next to the supply spool. Leave the paper which passes over the carbon drum in place. Be sure the black button of "NOTE SHEET" is down before starting to change rolls. While standing on the rear side of the table, with the left hand loosen screw on the left hand side which holds the supply roll in place, also pull out the friction brake which presses against the flange of the supply roll. Now lemove the supply roll from the supply spool in the same manner as in the old machine. This is easily done by placing the spool on one end on the floor and with the feet resting on the flange pull out the paper flange, then pull off the old roll, core and all - place new roll on the flange having larger tube. Be sure to place the new roll on the spool so that the paper will wind from the underneath side when it is placed on the machine. Insert flange with small tube in the larger tube and replace in the machine. Screw left hand roll support all the way in and replace brake ten­ sion. Cut the end of the paper so that it is similar to the front end of the music roll, bring it under­ neath the machine to the front, up and over the black idler spool, and insert underneath paper which passes over carbon drum so that when the carbon drum has rotated farther this paper will be carried along with the old paper and thus threaded under the styli of the electromagnets. After it has been brought forward far enough so that it is under all of the styli, the old paper may be removed. When the new paper is brought into tension be sure that the brass lever arm of the tracking device rests against the edge of the paper. The paper should be pulled forward with a slight tension to the right or left thus bringing it to an approximate tr.ack (that is so that the distance from each edge of the paper to the first stylus is about the same). When the paper is in approximate track, place under tearing off cutter and tear off in music roll pointed fashion. Place sticker on point of paper, hook over one of the screws of the take-up spool and start driving motor. Run off several feet of paper watching carefully to see that it comes into perfect track. In case the paper continued to be out of track, adjust position of tracker lever by using a long screw driver on set screw of tracker contact apparatus. This screw t" may be turned from the rear side of the machine.

(3) Renewing Carbons. Carbons are replaced the same as with the old machine. In removing the carbon, it is well to hold the paper gently with the left hand while the carbon is stripped with the right. This keeps the paper from being pulled out of shape while the carbon is being removed. The carbon is applied to the drum with the carbon face out, hold the carbon in front of the drum with adhesive tape already attached to the lower right and left corners and press these tapes gently again~t the drum, being sure that the carbon is straight with the axis of the drum. Move the drum for­ ward until the carbon is ready to pass under the paper then pull forward on the end of the paper until the carbon has wound itself completely around the drum. After a new carbon has been placed on the drum, the position of the worm wheel (which is concentric with the drum) with respect to the machine should be noted. There is a black scratch on the face of this worm wheel which may be used for this purpose. If this black scratch is pointed directly up or down, 300 feet of paper may be used before it is necessary to renew carbon. In fact, the carbon may be used in any case until this black mark on the worm wheel gets to either an up or down position. When it gets to either one of these positions the used portion of the carbon will be retraced and a poor record will be obtained with all styli which have been used a great deal in the preceding record.

(4) Test Tempo. In order to test the tempo the driving mechanism should be set at about tempo 100 and with a watch determine the amount of paper that passes over the drum in one minute. With the paper feeding forward, a mark may be made when the second hand gets to 60, and another mark made when it again comes to 60. The paper may then be removed, and this distance measured. This distance should be very close to 10 feet. In making this test do not have many wraps on the take-up spool before starting the record. f (5) Testing Note Contacts. Start the generator by pressing white buttons of "TRUNK" and "NOTE­ CURRENT" switches, set tempo on the note sheet to about 40 or 50 and play all notes on the recording piano in both legato and staccato manner. Also test all the pedals. Stop machine, remove paper and inspect record to see that all notes and pedals were recorded.

196 (6) Regulating Rheostat on Note Sheet Driving Motor. It will have been noted that when the driving motor is operating that there is a flickering of the note sheet driving motor signal lamp. If the lamp has a tendency to burn brightly without flickering, this is an indicatiof!. that the external resistance is too low and may be increased by moving the first knob of right hand rheostat toward rear of table. (fhis rheostat is under table at center.) If the lamp has a tendency to burn dimly and sometimes go out entirely this is an indication that the external resistance is too high and should be reduced by moving first knob of this rheostat toward front of table.

(7) Oiling. This machine requires very little oil, a drop or two in each of the oil holes about once every month is sufficient.

Generator The generator is used in obtaining a 15 volt current for operating the electromagnets of the note sheet record. A volt meter is mounted on top of the table and always registers the voltage of this machine. The generator is put into operation by pressing the white button of switch marked "NOTE CURRENT" (the proper button of trunk switch should be down). When the machine is running idle, the volt meter should read approximately 15 volts. During recording, especially during heavy passages, the voltage may vary and drop as low as 11 or 12 volts. If variations exceed this amount it is an indication that the brushes or commutator segments are dirty. These may be cleansed by wiping with a dry rag. This should be done in any case about once every month. A few drops of oil may be placed in all the bear­ ings of the generator every week or two. Do not forget to oil frequently and do not put in too much oil. Eight or ten drops every week or two is quite sufficient.

Dynamic Sheet Machine Starting, Etc. To start the paper drive of this machine, press white button on switch marked "DYNAMIC SHEET" (the three-way switch marked "TRUNK" must be in a closed position). The tempo is controlled by the first tempo dial to the right of the machine. To stop the driving mechanism, press the black button marked ./ "DYNAMIC SHEET". When records are being taken, the rotor must be in operation This is put into motion by pressing the white button on the switch marked "ROTOR". It takes a short time for this rotor to reach its normal speed, about half minute. Th'e normal speed is indicated by the flickering pilot light immediately to the left of the machine. During the taking of records this rotor is left running all the time. There is a rheostat underneath the table top at center for'regulating the external resistance of the rotor motor. This resistance should be adjusted so that the pilot light flickers with medium brilliancy. Pull the knob of the left hand rheostat toward the front of the table to decrease resistance and brighten pilot lamp. If it is desired to remove the dynamic record, cut the sheet with a penknife just above the take up spool. Disengage the driving pinion at the right of the machine. The end of the record may now be inserted underneath the tearing off device. After tearing off the paper in a triangular shape, the spool with the record may be removed by pressing gently to the left. The paper protruding between the platen and rotor may now be pulled forward, inserted under the tearing off device and pointed ready for the next record. Insert another take-up spool, place a sticker on the point of the paper, attach to one of the screws of the take-up spool; insert pinion drive and start dynamic sheet motor.

Threading With New Paper After the supply spool has been exhausted to such a point that there is not sufficient paper to take another complete record, the paper should be cut immediately above the supply spool with a penknife. Leave the paper between the Platen and the rotor. Standing on the rear side of the machine, and holding the supply spool with one hand, loosen lock nut and screw at left which supports the supply spool. Pull out the brake spring and remove supply spool. Place the supply spool with one end on the floor. Turn knurled knob of upper end of this spool to the left, removing same. Lift top flange off. Remove unused portion of supply roll, core and all. Place new roll on spindle of spool. Replace flange and knurled knob. Replace supply spool in machil!e, being sure that the paper unrolls from the top side as it passes between platen and rotor. If the paper is pointed in triangular shape, it may-be easily passed between rotor and platen by inserting on top side of old paper, which was left between the plat-

197 en and the rotor. After pushing the point of the new paper through, it may be grasped on the front side of the machine and pulled forward. The old paper may now be removed. Re-point the paper by insert­ ing under the tearing-off device. The machine is now .r~ady to operate as before. Be sure that the new paper when passing between the platen and rotor has the left-hand margin (as you face the ,1 machine from the front) passed through the slit ofthe code contacts.

Testing Tempo Set the tempo regulator at 100; attach the paper to an empty take-up spool; start driving motor with watch in hand; make a mark on the paper when the second hand passes 60. Make another mark when the second hand again reaches 60. Stop machine; remove paper and measure the distance between these two marks. This d!stance should be 10 feet.

Testing Dynamic Contacts It is advisable to frequently test the dynamic contacts located in the recording piano. This may be done by staring the rotor and the dynamic sheet driving mechanism at a tempo of about 40. Press the white button on switch marked "DYNAMIC CURRENT". Have someone play each note on the recording piano three times in succession with an ascending or descending scale. Stop machine; remove paper and develop record. The record may be identified and in this manner determine whether all the con­ tacts are functioning.

The Regulating Rheostat For Dynamic Sheet Motor Drive This rheostat is regulated in the same manner as the ones for the rotor and note sheet drives. The rheostat adjustment is made in such a manner that the flickering pilot light burns with medium brillian­ cy. Use the second knob of right hand rheostat for this adjustment. The dynamic sheet machine requires very little attention so far as oiling is concerned. The rotor motor should have two or three drops of oil every week or two. A drop of oil every few weeks on the supply spool bearing is advantageous. A drop of oil should be placed on the gear wheel bearings every month or two. 1 Inspecting Code Apparatus The code contact is located on the right hand side of the machine. There is an adjusting nut for regu­ lating the duration of contact. As long as the relay is clicking in a regular manner this contact is work­ ing properly. If the relay is clicking properly, an intermittent sparking can be observed at the code ele­ ment on the left hand margin of the dynamic sheet, when the "DYNAMIC CURRENT SWITCH" is closed.

Signal System

The three way switch which controls all of the current for the electrical units, is marked "TRUNK". Either this switch or the one in the recording room may be used for starting all of the mechanism. The pilot light on the table is used to indicate that the editor is ready for recording. The signal switch is used to notify the editor that everything is ready in the operating room. When this switch is pressed, all the white buttons should be "DOWN". The trunk switch should be in position so that none of the apparatus is operating except the rotor. When the editor presses the three-way switch in the recording room, all of the apparatus on the table will be put into operation. The follOWing inspection may be used to determine that everything is functioning properly: The three pilot lights flickering in a regular manner and burning with medium brilliancy indicates that the driving mechanisms for the note sheet, dynamic sheet and rotor are functioning properly. Inspection of the tempo indicator will determine whether the tempo is as requested by the editor. The regular clicking of the relay indicates that this device is functioning properly. By looking at the code sparking elements on the left hand margin of the dynamic sheet, it may be observed whether this 1 device is functioning properly. The generator voltage should be noted. This should read from 12 - 15 .. volts.

198 Taking Recordings Testing Before recording it is advisable to test the driving motors of the note sheet, dynamic sheet and rotor. After the dynamic rotor is put into operation it should be left running until all records have been com­ pleted. When testing the driving motors, the note current and dynamic current may be turned on and the code sparking element tested at the same time.

Preparing The Note Sheet Machine For Recording After all three tests have been completed the note sheet paper should be pointed, attached to the take up spool and the motor started and left running until six feet of paper has been wound up on the take up spool. Be sure that the carbon is in good condition. Note the position of the mark on the worm wheel at the right of the note sheet machine. If it is either "UP" or "DOWN", 300 ft. of paper may be used before changing the carbon. If it is in its "MID" position (that is at right angles to "UP" or "DOWN"), one half this quantity may be used. If it lacks only a few degrees of being in an up or down position, only one record should be taken. This worm wheel rotates in a clock-wise manner. Be sure that the tempo indicator of the note sheet driving motor is adjusted to that asked for by the editor. Number this roll at the beginning according to the order in which the records are taken. Write the tempo, the name of the artist, and if possible the name of the selection played; also the date.

Preparing The Dynamic Sheet for Recording At least four feet of this paper should be run onto the take-up spool before starting the record. This sheet should be numbered and identified in exactly the same manner as the note sheet. The tempo on the driving mechanism of this device should be adjusted to the same value as that on the note sheet.

Switches Be sure that the switch marked "ROTOR" has the white button down and that the pilot light on the rotor is flickering 'properly. Have all the white buttons for the other switches down and the trunk / switch thrown in such manner so that the sheets are not moving. The machine is now ready for oper­ ation. When the editor pushes the three-way switch in the recording room, all of the apparatus will be put into operation.

Running Inspectlon By observing the pilot lights it can be determined whether the rotor and driving motors are operating properly. The note sheet should be observed occasionally to see that it is tracking properly. Also the legibility of the note sheet record may be inspected occasionally. The generator volt-meter should be inspected occasionally to see that it is standing between 12 and 15 volts.

Splices The dynamic supply rolls have been found to have frequent splices in them. These splices cause con­ siderable trouble as they pass between the platen and the rotor. It is advisable, while using these rolls which have splices in them, to watch them all the time the machine is running. By placing one hand on the supply spool as it is running, the approach of a splice may be observed in time to prevent the rotor from slowing down as the splice passes through. This may be done by pushing the rheostat, which controls the rotor motor, in a direction tending to increase the brilliancy of the pilot light. After the splice has passed through, the rheostat may be readjusted so that the pilot light burns with medium brilliancy.

Stopping When notified that the record has been completed, which is done by the editor pushing the three-way switch and stopping all the apparatus, the operator should first press the black button on the switch­ es marked "DYNAMIC CURRENT AND NOTE CURRENT". Then, by pressing the three-way switch, the dynamic sheet and note sheet will be put into operation. These should be left running until ten feet of paper has been run onto the note sheet and six feet on the dynamic; after which the records should be marked and removed. New spools are inserted and the apparatus is ready for the next record. Before removing records, the ends should be cut in triangular shape by means ofthe tearing-off device. 199 Developing Dynamic Records Threading Machine Place the dynamic record, which has been obtained ft:Qm the recording unit, on the spool supports next to ,/ the drum. Insert this spool so that the paper will wind from the top side of the spool as it passes over the drum. Pass the paper between the squeegee and the brass rod. Do not place the sticker tab on the point ofpaper until after it has been passed through the squeegee. Pull the paper forward until a slack of about two feet is obtained. Put on sticker and attach to screw of empty spool which has been inserted in the take up spool supports. Turn the stopcock valve on side of table so that the handle points "DOWN". Place the nipple stopper on the small tube near the stopcock and pump the air pump until the developing solution in the glass jar has been forced up into the developing vessel. When all of the solution has been forced up you will hear C:1 gurgling noise. Stop pumping and immediately turn the stopcock at right angles; that is, so that the handle is in a horizontal position. Turn the crank of the take up spool until the paper is taut. While holding in this position, place the brass idler rod in its position back of the drum and on top of the paper. Wind the paper up on the take-up spool by means of the crank at a speed of about one revolu­ tion every second or two. When the roll has been wound through until the record paper is finished, remove the brass idler rod and continue winding until paper is just ready to come off the rear spool. Grasp the paper at this end with one hand and rotate the spool forward with the other until the eyelet can be removed from the screw. Holding the paper up so that it will not touch the drum, wind the rest of the paper through the squeegee. The developed roll may now be removed; the spool which was just emptied placed on the take-up spool sup­ ports and the next record placed on spool ready for developing. Inserting New Developing Solution When it is desired to add additional developing solution to the jar, pour it into the upper vessel between the drum and the squeegee. Be sure that the stopcock is pointed down and that the stopper is off of the nipple. Thesolution will run down into the glass jar and an amount may be added so that it brings the level in the reservoir jar up to the proper mark.

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Key: A Air Line 8 Brass Rod ~J C Rubber Stopper, Nipple and Small Tube D Guide E Snubbing Brake Tensioning Spring F Brass Idler Rod H Snubbing Brake Band R Drum J Glass Reservoir Jar SI Feed Spool K Tube S2 Take Up Spool With Hand Crank P Air Pump T Developing Vessel Q Squegee V Stopcock Valve

Draining Vessel r' When all the rolls have been developed for the day, the stopcock should be turned in "DOWN" position, and the rubber stopper removed. The solution will run back into the reservoir jar. After this has drained for a few minutes, the stop clock should be turned back to a horizontal position and the rubber stopper placed on the nipple. The machine is now ready to cover and put away until the next time it is needed. 200 10 THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW

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202 ADVERTISING INFORMATION FOR SALE Mint condition 1929 AMPICO ("A") SYMPHONIQUE 5'2" baby grand (as featured on the cover of the November/December 1994 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: 20¢ per word, $3.00 mini­ Bulletin). Professionally restored inside and out in 1988. Satin brown mum for members. Non-members may advertise at 40¢ per mahogany case and bench. Includes approximately 50 rolls. Asking word ($6.00 minimum) Because of the low cost of classifieds, $10,500. Ed Brennan, 6520 Barnesdale Path, Centreville, VA 22020. we are unable to provide proof copies. Phone 703-815-2121. (3-95) PAYMENT: in U.S. funds must accompany order. Make STEINWAY DUO-ART GRAND 6'2" rare electric roll drive checks payable to AMICA INTERNATIONAL. model from 1933 (XR 277552), walnut case, piano excellent original condition, tubing routed around key frame so, top action, which DEADLINES: 1st day of the odd months: January, March, accommodates D-A program rolls in larger spool box, is removable May, July, September, November. The Bulletin will be in three minutes, $13,500.00. Bill Koenigsberg, 77 High Pine Circle, mailed the 1st week of the even months. Concord, MA 01742. Phone 508-369-8523. (5-95) "NATIONAL" COIN PIANO WITH MANDOLINE, 8-roll AMICA RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ACCEPT, changer. Painted scene on inside of window. Roll is selected by REJECT, OR EDIT ANY AND ALL SUBMITTED choosing coin slot. Oak, fair to good. unrestored condition: $4850 ARTICLES AND ADVERTISING. o.b.o., Larry Broadmoore, 818-365-6231. (I) 400 GRAND PIANOS - Ampicos, $5000; Steinway Duo-Art, DISPLAY ADVERTISING $10,000. Victor's, 300 NW 54th Street, Miami, Florida 33127. Phone 305-751-7502. (6-95) Full Page - 7'h" x 10" .. $120.00 BALDWIN WELTE-MIGNON (LICENSEE) 6' grand piano with 3 Half Page - 7'/," x 4 /.' •••••••••••••••• $ 65.00 bench, choice unrestored condition, a fine instrument. $3800 obo,

3 Larry Broadmoore, 818-365-6231. Quarter Page -3'/8" x 4 /.' •••••••••••••• $ 35.00 MASON & HAMLIN 1929 AMPICO "B" in rare Sheraton Business Card - 3'h" x 2" $ 25.00 mahogany 5'8" art case, carvings and marquetry. Choice unrestored condition; original bench, 100 rolls. Call for price. Larry Each photograph or halftone $10.00 Broadmoore, 818-365-6231. WESTERN ELECTRIC STYLE "X" COIN PIANO with We recommend that display advertisers supply camera-ready Mandoline. Beautifully restored, in quartersawn oak case. Call for copy. Copy that is oversized or undersized will be changed to price. Larry Broadmoore, 818-365-6231. correct size at your cost. We can prepare an advertisement STEINWAY XR (6'1") DUO-ART. Major restoration work has from your suggested layout at cost. been done; original finish in good condition (medium walnut). Plays superbly. Call for price. Larry Broadmoore, 818-365-6231. PAYMENT: in U.S. funds, must accompany order. WELTE-MIGNON "MUSICALE" GRAND, with remote 12-roll Typesetting, layout size alteration charges will be billed sepa­ changer controlled by remote keypad. Restored and refinished: rately. Make check payable to AMICA INTERNATIONAL. $25,000. Impressive to hear. Extremely rare and desirable. Larry Broadmoore,818-365-6231. DEADLINES: 1st day of-the odd months: January, March, May, July, September, November. The Bulletin will be TWO-BIRD AUTOMATON MUSIC BOX. Call for information. Larry Broadmoore, 818-365-6231. mailed the Ist week of the even months. TWO REGINA SUBLIMA reiterating pianos, restored; with rolls. One spring-wound and one electric. Call for price and information. Larry Broadmoore. 818-365-6231. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT WURLITZER 146-A, restored, all original, except for new walnut ALL ADVERTISING IN THE AMICA BULLETIN case. New bell action. No facade. Beautiful, trailer mounted ready to All advertising should be directed to: play - $23,000. Rick McDowt:ll, 14406 North Stark Road, Liberty, Robin Pratt MO 64068; 816-781-1965. (3-95) 515 Scott Street AEOLIAN PUSH-UP Piano Player 65-note, original condition ­ Sandusky, Ohio 44870-3736 $250; COINOLA CUPID (rare), original condition - $10,000; WURLITZER IX-B w/roll changer & bells (rare) - $25,000; (419) 626-1903 PAILLARD cylinder box 6" cylinder 8-tune 1885, pristine condition Publication of business advertising in no way implies - $1,000; REGINA Music Box 15 1/2" discs w/base - $4,200; SEEBURG "K" - $14,000; 58-NOTE piano rolls, 24 for $220; AMICA's endorsement of any commercial operation. AMPICO rolls, 70 for $350; KNABE Ampico Grand 5'4" ­ However, AMICA reserves the right to refuse any ad that is $14,000; SEEBURG A Nickelodeon w/xylophone - $10,000; "0" not in keeping with AMICA's general standards. rolls 15-tune recut, 15 for $650; "0" rolls IO-tune recut, 20 for $590; REPRODUCO w/duplex roll mechanism (rare), 98-pipes ­ The BULLETIN accepts advertising without any endorse­ $25,000; MOLINARI Monkey Organ, 26-key - $7,500; SEEBURG ment, implied or otherwise, of the products or services being "L" Nickelodeon - $11,000; KOERNER BROS. Nickelodeon offered. Ad copy must contain text directly related to the w/violin pipes - $12,000; COINOLA CX w/9 instruments - $22,000; product/service being offered. Extraneous text will be deleted REPRODUCO single walnut - $15,000; SEEBURG G Orchestrion at the Publisher's discretion. w/9 instruments - $72,000; AMPICO 5'8" CHICKERING GRAND Piano Studdard 1916, original condition, refinished ­ ADVERTISEMENTS: All advertising must be accompanied $4,000; STEINWAY 7'5" GRAND w/Pianomation - $30,000. All by payment. No phone ads or written ads without payment of the above in choice restored and refinished condition except will be accepted. This policy was established by a unanimous where noted. BUYING: All types of rolls, Music Boxes, vote of the Board of AMICA at the 1991 Board Meeting and Nickelodeons, Orchestrions, Mills Violanos and all other automatic reaffrrmed at the 1992 meeting. AMICA reserves the right to musical instruments. Wayne Edmonston, 2177 Bishop Estates Rd., edit or to reject any ad that we deem inappropriate. Jacksonville, Florida 32259. Tel (904) 287-5996 or FAX (904) 287-4131. 3-95

203 UNRESTORED STEINWAY DUO-ART AR 6' II" - $15,900; WEBER DUO-ART grand model WR with bench; 5'8" flame grain HARDMAN PECK WELTE LICENSEE 6' 10" - $12,500; mahogany. Excellent unrestored condition - $5000 or best acceptable GEORGE STECK foot pumped grand 6' - $7500; 88-NOTE offer. Orlando, Florida (407) 831-6859 or (904) 423-8404. 3-95 PUSH-UP AEOLIAN PIANOLA - $4,900. Victorian era Steinway WELTE MIGNON #70612 grand 6'4" Louis XIV pecan with artcase non-player uprights. Randolph Herr, (718) 520-1443. 3-95 matching bench; ERARD - LONDON #9576 - 1867 7'4" grand - /" MARSHALL & WENDELL grand, Ampico, clean unrestored con­ French rosewood; BARREL PIANO #15466, Thomas Cortez of. dition - $4000; STECK grand, good unrestored condition - $4000; Ardanay, Guadalajara; SQUARE GRANDS - Steinway, etc.; Piano CABLE EUPHONA, Recordo, player restored, strings and hammers rolls - all kinds. 407-831-6859 or 904-423-8404..3-95 good - $3500. Jon Guy, 405-885-7609 evenings. 3-95 1920'S FRANKLIN/AMPICO UPRIGHT, excellent condition, 1932 MARSHALL & WENDELL Ampico B, 4'8" Grand, William beautiful mahogany case - $4500 includes 118 new and original and Mary Artcase w/matching bench; brown mahogany, original Ampico and 107 88-note rolls. Call Lou 714-497-2993. 3-95 ivory keyboard. Professionally restored and refinished - $13,900. Call or write: David Charrier, 7607 Fillmore St., Philadelphia, PA 19111; ATT: YAMAHA DISKLAVIER OWNERS! 7 Gershwin Micro-W 215-342-1074. 5-95 disks for sale - $20.00 each. Also 5 other disks - yesteryear hits. ­ $250.00 for the lot. Call (617) 426-2348. 4-95 ETUDE MAGAZINES, hundreds to choose from, great covers, ads, articles and music, 1889-1950, $2 - $12 each, quantity discount. Send RARE METRO-STYLE PIANO CONCERTO ROLLS: $20.00 S.A.S.E. with want list for quote to: David Charrier, 7607 Fillmore each and old Duo-Art rolls all in good to excellent shape. Call (617) St., Philadel£hia, PA 1911 i. 5-95 426-2348. 4-95 WURLITZER NICKELODEON ROLLS (65 Note APP) 5 and 10 1916 WEBER AEOLIAN PLAYER PIANO-upright. Amber col­ tune, and 10 tune NICKELODEON A ROLLS. Large collection to ored ribbon mahogany-rebuilt in 70's, mandolin bar, 150 rolls, excel­ be sold via mail auction mid/late summer. Write NOW to get on lent condition, sounds, plays, looks beautiful. Pix available. SASE mailing list. This ad will appear only one time. Ed Sprankle, 1768 plus 2 - 32¢ stamps - $2800. Robert Beyer, 4773 Avalon, Santa Leimert Blvd, Oakland, CA 94602-1930. 3-95 Barbara, CA 93110; phone 805-964-5013. 3-95 REGINA SUBLIMA STYLE 304 electric motor drive; REPRO· 5 COMPLETE DIFFERENT UPRIGHT PLAYER PIANOS in DUeO SINGLE ROLL PIANOIPIPE ORGANS (2) with many various conditions and over 400 rolls - $3000 for all. Kansas City, rolls; LESLIE BROTHERS UPRIGHT PLAYER; 1948 AMI D· MO area 816-246-7327 evenings. 3-95 80 JUKEBOX. Jerry Cuda, 5792 S. Bahama Cir. W., Aurora, CO 80015. Phone (303) 693-7576. 3-95 WANTED WURLITZER PHOTOPLAYER. Early style "0". Single IO-tune spoolframe. Piano complete with pumps, but no side cabinet. AEOLIAN GRAND 58-note music rolls, also GRAND ROLLER Unrestored, but keys have been recovered - $3500 firm; 1939 BUCK­ ORGAN 32-note cobs. John Kadlec, P.O. Box 10544, Springfield, LEY 10 cent slot, table top machine - $2450; BRASS CASH REGIS­ MO 65808; 417-738-2161. (4-95) TER, large - $1500; 7.5 hp vertical steam engine, restored to new. AMERICAN PHOTOPLAYER AND FILMUSIC ROLLS. Don Lots of red and brass. Brass three-tone whistle. Runs nicely on com­ "Kroenlein, RR #2, Box 161a, Moweaqua, Illinois 62550; Phone 217­ £.ressed air - $3750. Phone (806) 763-8606. 3-95 665-3528. (5-95) NEW PLAYER PIANO TOOLS. Call/write for description; try VIOLIN MACHINES, MUSIC BOXES, CHANGERS, LARGE them out for a week FREE (AMICA members only). If you don't CYLINDER BOXES, JUKE BOXES, MONKEY ORGANS, ;/ like, send back and pay only shipping. Bill Maguire, 146 Broadway, BAND ORGANS, NICKELODEONS, ORCHESTRIONS, Greenlawn, NY 11740; (516) 261-6799. PLAYER GRAND PIANOS, anything in antique mechanical music, STROUD DUO·ART GRAND late model, 5' unrestored, complete ­ any condition. Wayne Edmonston, 2177 Bishop Estates Rd., $1500; MARSHALL & WENDELL Ampico grand, needs a few Jacksonville, FL 32259, Phone 904-287-5996, FAX 904-287­ parts - $700; PUSH-UP PIANOLA - $600; AMPICO rolls· 100 for 4131.(6-95) $150; Player piano parts for sale. Bill Maguire, 146 Broadway, WANTED: 80 NOTE DUO-ART STACK with 16-31-17-16 Greenlawn, NY 11740; (516) 261-6799. pushrod count. Mel Septon, 9045 Karlov St., Skokie, IL6oo76. 708­ AMICA BULLETINS complete from 1975 to Feb. 1995. Sell in one 679-3455. (6-95) lot. Please make offer. George Kallis, 1145 Woodside Drive, Amherst, Ohio 44001; £.hone 216-988-4038. 4-95 AMPICO B LATE MODEL fully restored with art case, 5'4" ­ 5'8" located in Florida. Contact: Clarence Boone, 1611 Minutemen WEBER UPRIGHT PLAYER early 1900's matching roll cabinet, Cswy. Apt. 306, Cocoa Beach. FL 32931 or phone 407-784-2687. bench w/handles; refinished, needs little mechanical work. Approx. 100 rolls. $4,000 negotiable. Marjorie H. Lindstrom, 1804 S. Warren, After April 15 phone 315-685-6555. (3-95) Sedalia, MO 6530I; 816-826-4887. 3-95 UNRESTORED REPRODUCOS & COIN PIANOS; Peerless elite MASON AND HAMLIN 5'4" mahogany Ampico grand; player recut rolls. Jon Guy, 405-885-7609. 3-95 restored, perfect ivory keys, good original piano - $7500 or trade REGINA MUSIC BOX WANTED in any condition. Will consider towards Mahogany Steinway "AR", A or B (88-note only) or Mason other large disk and cylinder music boxes. What have you? Also want and Hamlin Ampico 6 ft. or larger, ivory keys only. Call weeknights Regina Hexaphone and Mills Violin Virtuoso. Arnold Levin, 2634 212-988-4482. 4-95 Woodlawn Road, Northbrook, IL 60062. Phone 708-564-2893. 3-95 AMPICO & DUO-ART ROLLS. For list, I.L. Cordell, 2240 Lorain WANTED: RALLY ORGAN. Art Faner (503) 363-8193. 3-95 Rd., San Marino, California 91108. 3-95 WANTED: MILLS VIOLANO ROLLS, esp. XMAS and contain­ 1923 STROUD DUO·ART UPRIGHT. Duo-Art restored, excellent ing "Blue Danube." Let me know what you have. John Stenstrom, expression. Some rolls included. Ken Knox, 714-525-7223 Richmond, VA; 804-355-4113 or FAX: 804-355-6628. 3-95 (California). 3-95 WURLITZER MODEL I. Wanted coin mechanism. Also need a MASON & HAMLIN 5'8" 1916 Mahogany satin, wlPiano Disc unit, picture or someone to explain how rewind should be connected and wlProdius Synthesizer accompaniment and bench - $16,000. CHICK­ any rolls (9 5/8" wide). Copy of book "PUT ANOTHER NICKEL ERING 5' 2" 1922 light walnut, "Custom Centennial Model" IN." Ron Brazell, 707-557-2114 or 707-552-2659. 3-95 w/Ampico, restored to perfection, with a matching bench - $12,000. BALDWIN 7' 1979 player, ebony gloss with Pianocorder system and WANTED: SEEBURG PARTS: pancake motor with adjuster, artist's bch - $15,000. WM. KNABE 53" 1915 brn. mahogany player, motor "spring" base, coin-box, "piano" knob, loud-medium-soft slide works perfectly, matching bch, perfect set of ivory keys, original valve, man in boat decoration ("L" art glass) EL - magnet assembly ,... "Ampico" - $2,895. FRANKLIN 54" 1919 dk. mahogany upright (coin-wallbox), "A" roll chucks (2 pr.), "A" rolls, wallboxes, "L" . wlnew finish, player mechanism needs work - $2000 as is (or) $7,000 vacuum hose schematic (need help???) MILLS VIOLIN completely restored. AEOLIAN CABARET 46" dk. oak console MACHINE (mahogany-oak) any condition!! Brad Hunter, 414 player, manual (pedal pumps) or electric, with a matching bench, great Pepper Road, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006; phone (215) 947-4676. condition - $2,995. Schroeder's Pianos - 310-923-2311. 3-95 4-95

204 "THE PIANOLA QUARTERLY" - Did you every wonder what it ANNOUNCEMENT was like to playa concert grand "reproducing" piano with a sympho­ VINTAGE PIANO ROLLS, RECUTS AND NEW PERFOR­ ny Orchestra? Find out in Issue #2 of the NONSOCIAL, musically­ MANCES. Since 1970, we have supplied collectors with the finest oriented Player-Piano magaZine! Subscribe now and get Issues #I in reproducing and 88-note rolls thru our mail au<;tions, fixed-price and #2 in a 3-ring binder. Only $28.50 per year, postpaid in the -/ recuts and newly mastered performances. We regularly feature U.S.A. (Or $28.50 + postage for foreign orders.) Join the many music Ampico, Duo"Art and Welte rolls and a great variety of 88-note rolls roll enthusiasts who already read this worthwhile publication! Write: with a specialty in hard-to-find rag and jazz categories. We also reg­ ARTCRAFT Music Rolls, P.O. Box 295, Wiscasset, ME 04578 ularly recut many of these original gems. On top of all this, we pro­ U.S.A. 3-95 duce our exclusive line of Hot Piano Classics and Ragged Recollections labels ofjazz and rag performances never before avail­ able on rolls. These are sold at a fixed price. Give us a try! Paul and FOR TRADE Cindy Johnson, The Piano Roll Center, 108 Southcreek Circle, for Welte-Mignon/Welte Organ literature, 1927 Duo-Art Piano Folsom, CA 95630; 800-935-ROLL (7655). (2-95) Music Catalog, 519 pages, slight spine damage; Dec. 1924 Duo-Art WANTED: Presenters, entertainers on musical, technical and Monthly, 16 pages; Jan. 1925 Duo-Art Monthly, 18 pages; Jan. 1925 historical aspects of automatic musical instruments. Call Bill QRS Catalog, 208 pages, with original errata sheet; Jan. 1935 QRS Catalog, 23 pages; Jan. 1929 Ampico Catalog 239 pages; 1924 Story 516-424-6752. For Lady Liberty Chapter Meetings (NY City metro & Clark Technician's Manual (ReproPhraso) 64 pages. Reinhart, 118 area) N. Lawrence St., Charles Town, WV 25414. PIANO ROLL AUCTIONS, reproducing, 88-Note, and literature by mail auction. Bennet Leedy Rolls, 4660 Hagar Shore Road, Coloma, MI 49038; 616-468-5986. (1-96) VINTAGE PIANO ROLLS, RECUTS AND NEW PERFOR­ MANCES. Since 1970, we have supplied collectors with the finest in reproducing and 88-note rolls thru our mail auctions, fixed-price recuts and newly mastered performances. We regularly feature Ampico, Duo-Art and Welte rolls and a great variety of 88-note rolls with a specialty in hard-to-find rag and jazz categories. We also reg­ ularly recut many of these original gems. On top of all this, we pro­ duce our exclusive line of Hot Piano Classics & Ragged Recollections labels ofjazz and rag performances never before avail­ able on rolls. These are sold at a fixed price. Give us a try! Paul and Cindy Johnson, The Piano Roll Center, 108 Southcreek Circle, Folsom, CA 95630. Phone 800-935-ROLL (7655). (2-96)

Pumper Contest

Attention '95 England Convention attendees the pumper contest time is limited. Please submit now your request to participate in that contest. If necessary, we will draw names from these submissions to establish (and limit) who participates.

Mail your contest entry before July 1st to:

Robert W. Taylor 2508 Cimarron Columl?ia, MO 65203 USA

205 ~~ BROUGHER RESTORATIONS WAHTEn !!!! Reproducers, Nickelodeons and Fine Grand Pianos DOES ANYONE HAVE COMPLETE RESTORATION A COPY OF FACILITIES OWNER OPERATED "THE AIT OF AIIAKGIKG Since 1967 CASE and VENEER REPAIRS PIAKD lOLLS" ~ HAND-RUBBED MIRROR or SATIN FINISHES IN VARNISH IT WAS PUBLISHED BY THE VOICING AND TONE SPECIALIST "ARTO" COMPANY Concert Quality Regulation Lowest Prices, Known References, Guaranteed Work. Only the worlds finest known grades of material are used. Please contact: They are always fresh and continually checked. Robin Pratt, AMICA Publisher Hot glue and original materials used throughout wherever possible. 51.5 Scott Street Sandusky, OH 44870-3736 Craig Brougher 1.-41.9-626-1.903 (816) 254-1693 3500 Claremont FAX (816) 254-2710 Independence, MO 64052 m~~~~~~

Schiedmayer Full Concert Grand Ampico (9 ft. long) This is a unique instrument of the highest quality for a discerning KT SPECIAL FAVOR person who wants the best both in sound and appearance. The A Special Keepsake • A 6reat 6in piano, which dates from 1915, was totally restored, including removal of the plate for regilding, after which it was restrung, action rebuilt with new top quality hammers, etc. The result is a From the super toned instrument with looks to match. The magnificent rose­ AMICA - MRSI 1993 wood case has inlay and banding with very attractive lyre, legs, music desk, etc. At the present time, old polish has been stripped Los Angeles Meeting ready for refinishing and the piano will be sold "as is". Refinishing A reproduction Seeburg KT Spe«::ial can be arranged if required. The Ampico mechanism came from a complete with eagle "glass." damaged Mason & Hamlin piano and was totally restored and reworked before installation in the Schiedmayer. Price around Ughts up and plays Scott Joplin's £20,000. The Entertainer. recorded from an actual KT Special nickelodeon. Popper Happy Jazz Band 8" high x 6" wide x 3" deep Is a quality German orchestrion, totally restored, the piano restrung, full action rebuild with new hammers, etc., complete $35 each pneumatic rebuild (including valves). rewired, case finished, etc. Please mail order to: including 15 rolls. Additional new rolls available in Germany. Price Ken Hodge, Treasurer. AMICA-MBSI 1993 around £13,000. 42846 Cinema Avenue Lancaster, CA 93534-6229 Peter J. Knighton (Restorations) I ,., Payable to: AMICA, So. Calif. Chapter 1, Ashfield Avenue Wickham, Newcastle upon Tyne NE16488, England Tel. 011 44 191 488725· FAX 011 44 191 4887257

206 BIG PROFITS-NET PROFITS

The Dealer gets both when he han­ dles the "Coinola."

BigProfits because after one nickel is dropped another is sure to follow-and that's because it's an artistic piano. NetProfits because it does not require a . . repaIrman 111 con- stant attendance.

A Post Card Brings Catalogue and Prices 51}le "A"-'·Trouble·Proo( Coinola." 5howinraleel O'cllealra bellaUacbmenl 1911-13 Clybourn Ave. OPERATORS PIANO COMPANY CHICAGO

KNABE 1926, 5'4" grand, mahogany, unrestored, bench, previously owned by Vocalstyle Recording Artist VERA GUILAROFF. One of a kind Glass Front Roll Cabinet 70" x 32" x 18" filled with 150 AMPICO rolls. $15,000 for package. WEBER 1910,5'10" foot pumper Grand flame mahogany, 65/88 note tracker piano rebuilt, case restored, mechanism untouched - $7000. REGINA music box style 11, single comb, mahogany, many discs - $5000 CYLINDER music box 10 tunes, 3 butterfly strikers, ideal starter. McTAMMANY organette, recut rolls - $500. Jukeboxes Wurlitzer 1100 & Centennial, Rockola 1426 & Seeburg HF100R. Slots (Roman Head & Davol), Peepshow, rolls & much more.

We have had fun with the above now it's your turn. Call DIANA or JOHN KELLY Montreal, Canada (514) 626-9762 Keep this ad - one time only (3-95)

207 WHAT A DIFFERENCE Reproducing Pianos If you think you have a great AMPICO A today, you haven't heard anything, yet! For Sale 11(' The small details in the expression are dependent on Steinway, Mason & Hamlin, Chickering, and many a precision crescendo spring rate. Without exception, others. Several Art Case Models. Professional all Ampico expression springs are fatigued. But returning restoration services available, all work done in­ to the original performance curves, we built an house. Presently in stock: Mason & Hamlin 5'8" ideal spring that follows those curves, using a special Model B Ampico; Mason & Hamlin AAA 6'2" Model wire with a specific G factor and highly fatigue resistant. A Ampico Art-Case, Steinway L.A. Art-Case Duo­ A better quality material than the original, designed Art; all restored, available for immediate delivery. mathematically, exhaustively bench tested and Other pieces in progress: Chickering 9' Concert evaluated in a number of instruments. Considerably Grand, Model A Ampico (one of only four located), different than any available spring of similar dimensions. available with electric roll-drive drawer; Haines You will be delighted at the difference two precision "Spanish" Art Case, Jacobean spiral twisted legs, springs can make in your piano, and most owners find full Model B Ampico; Chickering 5'9" prototype 1928 they can replace them without technical help. Model B (with 1930 factory assigned serial number); Instructions included. Try a pair for two weeks. many unique features which differ from the produc­ Ifyou're not satisfied, return them for a full refund. tion model B; Hybrid Model AlB in midget Marshall By the way, We have brand new Ampico B pump springs. & Wendell baby grand; small Geo. Steck late style too: The finest steel available. Phone in your order ifyou Duo-Art; larger Steck (untouched) with 17" pump; would like to put them on your Mastercard or Visa. 5'8" Weber grands (two). $9/pr. or $9 Model B Spring Thomas Ahearn Player Piano Service Brougher Restorations 40 W. Water Street 3500 Claremont Ave. Wakefield, MA 01880 Independence, MO 64052 (617) 245-8856. 816-254-1693 (3-95) (3-95) I' 'I ,r

~~~ MANUFACTURERS OF ~:\)J CL~LLS

4t TRAOE ... ARK REGISTEREO U. S. PATENT OFFICE MUSIC ROLLS FOR AUTOMATIC PIANOS, NG ORGANS AND ORCHESTRIONS SPa 51'1\\ . 1995 THESE ING S\'J.. I 11 \\~\..\..S OF ARE SO/1E \~\.. ~ ' C) B II t · Tllf BfS \I.'i.'

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208 PERSONALIZED AMICA STATIONERY This is a sample of the small letterheads which can be purchased. Paper and Envelopes are Classic Laid, Baronial Ivory stock printed in brown ink. 100 8'12x II Letterheads - personalized with name, address, and phone number. (Same layout design as small letterhead) 100 8112 x II Sheets of plain Baronial Ivory paper to match 100 5'12 x 8112 Small Letterheads - personalized with name, address, and phone number 100 #10 Envelopes - personalized with name and address

Total price is $95.00 Postage Paid

Discounts for larger quantities - call or write. Also available non-personalized. Write for price on smaller quantities on non-personalized.

Make Checks Payable to: AMICA International

Order/rom:

SHAWN FOX 404 Marshall Avenue Sandusky, Ohio 44870-5437 419-625-7610 r WANTED TO BUY 1

MUSIO BOXES MUSIOAL OLOOKS MEOHANIOAL ORGANS

Always in the market for better quality disc and cylin­ der music boxes, musical clocks, singing birds, band organs, player organs, monkey organs, Wurlitzer 78 rpm jukeboxes,' slot machines. Any condition. MARTIN ROENIGK 26 Barton Hill East Hampton, Connecticut 06424 (203) 267-8682 l.. (6-95) !!!!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\....-: , I AMJICA COMJING EVENTS) CAILENIDAJR Be sure and mark your calendars so you won't miss any of the fun! JULY 20-22, 1995 Mid-Am Chapter (MBSI) Organ Rally at Flint, Michigan. AUGUST 5-13, 1995 31st International AMICA Convention. London, England. Contact Dorothy Bromage (207) 283-1140. SEPTEMBER 9-10,1995 Heart of America Organ RallyjExhibition at Kansas State Fair, Hutchinson, Kansas. Contact Leonard & Billie Railsback, 1440 West 17th St., Hutchinson, Kansas 67501. Phone 316-665-5740. Hosts: AMICA-Heart of America & MBSI-Sunbelt JUNE 26-30, 1996 32nd International AMICA Convention. St. Louis, MO Contact: Cynthia Craig (314) 771-1244.

YOU MAY STILL BE ABLE TO GO TO LONDON IN 1995 FOR THE AMICA LONDON CONVENTION.

contact: Liz Barnhart 919 Lantern Glow Trail ~ .~ Dayton, OH 45431 ~"'\'\~I:>~ Phone (513) 254-5580 • '0

210 AMICA TECHNICALITIES Since 1969, AMICA has been publishing into bound volumes, collections of technical articles written and contributed by its members for publication in The AMICA Bulletin. They may be purchased as follows: Vol I- 1969 to 1971 . $ 9.50 Vol 2 - 1972 to 1974 . 7.50 Vol 3 - 1975 to 1977 . 8.50 Vol 4 - 1978 to 1980 . 6.50 Vol 5 - 1981 to 1988 . 20.00 Vol 6 - 1989 to 1993 . 20.00

They may be ordered from: Shawn Fox 404 Marshall Ave. Sandusky, Ohio 44870-5437 U.S.A. (419) 625-7610

Please note: 1. Supplies of the earlier volumes may be unavailable from time to time. 2. Prices shown above are in U.S. dollars, postage is included, and payment must be in U.S. dollars. 3. Payment for orders from beyond U.S.A. must be accompanied by prepaid U.S. dollar money order, or bank draft, etc. 4. Please make payments payable to: "AMICA International" 5. Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery in USA/Canada, and 6-8 weeks for overseas orders.

BOUND ISSUES OF THE AMICA BULLETIN

(1971-1993) have been discounted to make them accessible to all. The prices for available issues are: 1971 - 1974 " ,...... $12.00 1975 - 1980 ...... 13.00 1981 - 1983 ...... 16.00 1984 - 1987 ...... 19.00 1988 - 1989 ...... 20.00 1990 - 1991 ...... 22.00 1992 - 1993 ...... 23.00 Make checks payable to: AMICA International Order from: Mary Li1ien 4260 Olympiad Drive Los Angeles, CA 90043

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his year we are celebrating the 20th Annual Band Organ Rally sponsored by the Mid-America Chapter of Musical Box Society International. The rally will be held at Crossroads Village, near Flint, Michigan, July T21st and July 22nd, with early registration for organ owners on the 20th. The instruments appearing at the rally are the same type which were seen and heard on the showgrounds of America in the early 1900's. The band organ, an automatically played pipe organ controlled by specially punched paper rolls or cardboard, is usually associated with the carousels found in carnivals and amusement parks. The signature of the circus was the calliope, used in the daily street parade and accompanying the band during the big top performance. Old and new band organs - both American and European - will be at the rally, as well as calliopes, monkey organs, and other unique organs. Coming from throughout the United States, the current owners and restorers of over a hundred mechanical organs will proudly present their instruments and answer your questions. Crossroads Village offers a peaceful old-time setting where you can enjoy beautifully restored buildings of the late 1800's, and ride the C.W. Parker Carousel and the Huckleberry Railroad. Hours are from 10:00 to 5:30 on r'" Friday and 11 :00 to 6:30 on Saturday. There is an admission charge. Please come help us celebrate our 20th annual rally with ''The Happiest Music on Earth." For further information, contact John orNan Flint at (810) 476-0163 or Carl orSharon Curtis at (313) 428.(J268.

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Now Available for the AMPICO and DUO-ART

SELECTIONS II"1CLUDE:

TOP OF THE TOWN From the New Universal Picture Top Of The Town Harold Adamson - Jimmy McHugh. ] 936

DRIFTING Theme from the Warner Bros. Picture

AUNTIE MAME ~ Bronislau Kaper. ] 958

THE WALTZ IN SWING TIME From the RKO RADlO Picture SWING TiME Jerome D. Kern - Robert Russell Bennett. ] 936

Pianists PETER MIr>JTUN (left) and FREDERICK HODGES. DUfTS WITH FRfDERICK HODGES: IT'S THE ANIMAL IN ME From the Paramount Picture THE BIG BROADCAST OF ] 936 • Mack Gordon - Harry Revel. ] 934

ROCKIN' THE TOWN From the Columbia Picture START CHEERING Ted Koehler - John W Green. ] 937

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214 What People are saying about: The Welte-Mignon: ITS MUSIC AND MUSICIANS By Charles Davis Smith and Richard James Howe

"Incredible! worth every penny!" R.B., Virginia "Thanks for recommending this for my husband's birthday. It was the perfect gift He loves it!" G.T., Missouri "What a great historical monograph. The artist/composer section is worth $1000 alone! Now ifI can onlyfind the rolls in the listing. " M.E., Ohio This 900+ page reference text on the Welte-Mignon consists of historical overviews of the companies and individuals who produced Welte-Mignon pianos and recordings together with a complete eatalog of Welte-Mignon recordings (1905-1932) and biographical essays on many of the recording artists and composers of these rolls. DID YOU KNOW. •. THAT YOU CAN HELP AMICA BY ORDERING YOUR WELTE-MIGNON BOOK DIRECTLY FROM AMICA? Wholesale rates are available in case lots to bonafide dealers, too. This monumental work follows Charles Smith's successful Duo-Art Piano Music: A Complete Classified Catalog of Music Recorded for the Duo-Art Reproducing Piano, which was published 1987. Dick Howe assumed responsibility for this project in 1992 after Smith encountered severe medical problems which he has since overcome. In addition to Smith and Howe, the following "editors" have been deeply involved in this project: Matthew Caulfield, Claes Friberg, Jeffrey Morgan, Mark Reinhart and Ronald Sanchez. Dozens of oth­ ers have also assisted with this work which has spanned more than six years and consumed some 16,000 man-hours (8 man-years). All ofthe time and money spent on this project to date has been donated to AMICA. ORDER YOURS NOW! Price - $89.00 Post Paid U.S.A. Add $10.00 for Overseas Shipping MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: AMICA INTERNAnONAL ORDER DIRECTLY FROM: Janet Tonnesen, 903 Sandalwood, Richardson, TX 75080. () THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW

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The most spectacular success in the field of autDm<\tic instruments was scored when the See­ burg line of coin-controlled pianos and orchestrions was introduced to the trade. One of the instruments that has' contributed most liberally to Seeburg supremacy has been the ever-satisfying, ever-selling Style F. It is an instrument that is adaptable to a wide variety of '- conditions and one ~hat makes good in every instance.

Style F is 5 It. 4 in.- in height and :J fl. 7 in. in length. A massive case of artistic lines featuring a row of small art glass panels a1 top and possessing an illuminated landscape scene on front panel that is artistic and secure. Contains a set of 32 violin pipes ahd a mandolin attachment. Finest workman- ship and rn:rterial to the last detail. Case Design Patented. . Jo Po SEEBllJRG PIANO COo Makers of SeeburgElectric Coin-Operated Pianos and Seeburg Orchestrioris-Art Style Originators

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