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Cover story: This month's cover was created ROLLS & MUSIC 214 from a December, 1932 issue of The Etude NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 216 I Magazine contributed by Molly Yeckley. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 217 INDEX TEXAS 217 PH ILADELPH IA 218 INTERNATIONAL AMICA 202 ROCKY MOUNTAIN 221 t.~%? Winnipeg News 204 NEW JERSEY 222 INSTRUMENTS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES J Residence Pipe Organs 211 Cyril Scott 223 AMICA FORUM 214 1978 BULLETIN INDEX 225 A POST-CONVENTION NOTE FROM of 1979 at La Mansion del Rio hotel in San Antonio, Texas the weekend of February 16-19, 1979. The official Board meeting HENRY LANGE day is Saturday, February 17. Anyone who is planning to BY TOM BECKETT attend is urged to contact Tom Beckett now for details as a limited number of hotel rooms has been set aside for the Carole and I, who were fortunate to have AMICA Honorary AMICA Board and this river-front hotel is quite popular. Member Henry Lange alone to ourselves for a few moments in Dayton, received a nice letter from him in which he recounted his joy at attending the convention and getting to meet so many AMICAns. Henry asked that I express his appreciation to all for the wonderful time and sent a memento of his days on tour. The item reproduced here is from the AMPICO STAR Concert Dinner and Musical Programme at the Baker Hotel in Dallas-, Texas, March 10, 1929. OF NEW JERSEY ART SHOW BY RICHARD E. DEARBORN Musical Programme A 1922 Franklin Ampico was the star of a Burlington County art show this last summer. Featuring works by Val Roy by Gerischer of Stockton, New Jersey, the show was sponsored HENRY LANGE and HIS BRUNSWICK by the Foundation Theatre at Burlington County Community RECORDING ORCHESTRA College. The Ampico featured an oriental art case designed LeROY MORRIS Trumpet and executed by Mr. Gerischer in gold leaf and enamel. FREDERICK HUMMEL Trombone, Violin NELSON PRESLEY Saxophone This piano is from the collection of Mr. Wesley Beaumont of F. GLYNN HARRIS Saxophone Pennington, New Jersey who also did the piano restoration. ROBT. DOWLING Sousaphone, Violin, String Bass, Viola, Oboe The pneumatic restoration was done by Mr. Jeffrey Morgan PEDRO NORIEGO Trumpet WlII. WEAVER Trombone, Melophone, Piano of Trenton, New Jersey. JAMES PRICE Saxophone The art show also featured works by Mr. Gerischer in WRAY SHERREL • Vocalist CARL BElT Percussion mediums ranging from exotic, oriental style pencil sketches to HENRY LANGE, Director water colors, oils, acrylic, acrylic on canvas, acrylic panels and '\9======,======e;. stained glass. He is equally at home in many craft mediums, some of which are rug and tapestry design, ceramic sculpture and ceramic painting. The latter led to his work for the PROGRAMME worldfamed Edward Marshall Boehm studios. Among his works there being the commemorative plate of the Mute 1. "Drigonesque" - Drigo Swan sculpture given to Mao Tse Tung, the Bicentennial Eagle, and various re-creations of impressionist paintings as 2. "Rosemary" Zamecnik well as originals of birds of paradise and other bird and floral 3. "Chalita"-Tango - Shertzinger paintings. The art show was climaxed by a roll concert given by Mr. 4. "Spring Song" Mendelssohn Jeffrey Morgan displaying a cross-section of works recorded 5. Selections from "Student Prince" Ro-mberg for the Ampico. The concert led off with Shumann's "Slumber Song Op. 124 #6" played by Mischa Levitski. The piece served 6. "Do You Know My Garden?" Hayden Wood to set a very pleasant mood of tranquility. This was followed 7. "Neapolitan Nights"-Waltz by Liszt's "Transcendental Etude #4, Mazeppa" played by Erwin Nyiregyhazi. Little need be said of the effect of this 8. Berceuse, "Slave," F. Neruda piece on the audience. it was Liszt at his best and Mr. Vio-lin Solo by ROBERT DOWLING Nyiregyhazi was brilliantly reproduced by the Ampico. Next 9. "That's What I Call Heaven" (Popular) Solman on the program was Liszt's "A Musical Evening with Rossini" played by Feruccio Busoni. 10. "AI Fresco" Vietor Herbert The concert now turned in a completely different direction, INTERMISSION away from the classics and toward the era of the speak-easies, flappers and the Last of the Red Hot Mamas, Sophie Tucker. 11. "My Little Star Estrellita" Ponce \Vhat better example of the music of the era of the reproducing piano than "Some of These Days" played by Lee 12. "Sally of My Dreams" Sims. 13. Request The music now alternated between classical and popular. 14. "Sugar" Handy Chopin's "Andante Spiantoso" and "Polonaise" played by Tina Lerner was heard. This was followed by the medley from "Funny Face" played by Victor Arden. This medley containes the ever popular '''S Wonderful" and "He Loves and She Loves." INTERNATIONAL BOARD TO MEET The concert was concluded with three rolls of great contrast. IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS IN FEBRUARY The first was Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodie #12" played by Arthur Rubinstein, followed by "Memories of You" written The Board of AMICA International will hold its first meeting

- 203 - and played by Eubie Blake, and finally "My Heart Stood Still" Other than this discordant note (pun intended), my show played by Richard Rodgers. appeared to have been well received by the some 6000 ~ The concert was highly successful. The audience was attentive persons who passed by during the day display and I was and seemed most interested in all that Mr. Morgan had to say. personally pleased to have my instruments on display with 145 Many even came forward to ask questions about the beautifully restored antique and classic cars. instrument following the concert. This piano will probably be A few days later, on October 11, approximately 30 students on display at the 1979 AMICA International Convention in from the University of Manitoba School of Music came over Philadelphia. to my home to see and hear my collection. Professor Ursula Rempel, who teaches a course in "Twentieth Century Music," brings her students over annually when they are studying automatic musical instruments. As a point of interest, her WINNIPEG NEWS principal reference for this portion of their course is Q. David BY TERRY SMYTHE Bowers' Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments. Their youthful enthusiasm occasionally had them plunging From time to time over the years I've had occasion to take my nickels into several instruments simultaneously, resulting in collection out for some form of public display, or have one wondering where all the music lovers went to. However, frequent groups over to my home from a variety of sponsors. we did get a three piano trio going with two pianists on my This past year has been no exception, but in my efforts to Marshall & Wendell Ampico grand and Cremona 3 stimulate interest in automatic musical instruments, I nickelodeon, accompanied by Paderewski playing his own inadvertantly compressed three significant events into one "Minuet" on my Mason & Risch Duo-Art grand. Very very short month. interesting experiment and a lot of fun! On September 29-30 and October 1, for the second consecutive year, I had my collection on display during the annual show of the Manitoba Classic & Antique Automobile Club (See AMICA Bulletin, November 1977). This year the show was held in the huge, cavernous Highlander Curling Club and I brought out my 1927 Seeburg KT, 1909 Cremona Style 3, 1927 Violano, and 1930 Mason & Risch Duo-Art. Unfortunately our tight money Canadian economy induced a joint show with the local Roadrunners and Street Rod associations. Last year I was very specific about location and surroundings and made the mistake of assuming the current executive would have access to and read last year's records. This did not appear to be the case for I found my instruments shoe-horned into a comer alongside a motorcycle display, and seemingly surrounded by van owners with a passion for 60 watt stereo sets cranked up full volume with hard rock. This competition was intense and irritating. Despite frequent appeals and public complaints, many van owners repeatedly kept their sets up full volume during my hourly shows. If I participate in the display again next year, I will have to insist that such behavior Professor Ursula Rempel (back to camera) and a group of her be forbidden as a condition of the agreement. (Future AMICA students from the University of Manitoba School of Music exhibitors take note). inspecting Terry's Violano. Then on Sunday, October 29, something happened that I've been planning since last spring, a public concert with my 1930 Mason & Risch 6'1" Duo-Art - "Legendary Masters of the Piano-Live Performance." I've wanted to do this for some time, but got seriolls about it after discussing with Bob Rosencrans his experiences in doing something similar in Philadelphia. The concert was held in the theatre of the vVinnipeg Art Callery, a fine location with superb acoustics. We were able to make it a free concert as there was no performance fee, hall rental was waived, and Yamahah Music Centres cooperated by moving my instrument at no cost. This was a fine arrangement all around which I hope can be repeated next year. The instrument was moved into the theatre backstage on Friday morning, and on Sunday morning I went in to tune and regulate it. By then it had stabilized to temperature and humidity and for the concert in the afternoon it performed Terry displaying and demonstrating his collection at the flawlessly, for which I was extremely grateful. But of course, annual show of the Manitoba Classic and Antique Automobile this was they way I had planned it. Club.

- 204 - In selecting my program I tried to stick with familiar music by Following the first selection, I came out on stage, gave a brief well known artists of the 2Os. As my program opened, the explanation about player pianos and in particular reproducing house lights dimmed, the closed curtains were spotlighted and pianos and their noteworthy contribution to the preservation then opened to reveal my Mason & Risch on stage by itself. I of authentic piano stylings of the great artists of the turn of the waited a few moments for effect, then backstage I plugged it century. Preceeding each selection, I gave a brief thumbnail in and without anyone appearing on stage, it sprang into life sketch of each artist with minimum dates, but something itself with Paderewski playing the Liszt "Hungarian Rhapsody special, unusual, or humorous about each. This seemed to ',­ No.2," for a rather dramatic and effective opening. have been well received. During intermission several interested persons spoke to me about some central focus of interest in these instruments ... "How does one get started and get help. etc.?" So, following intermission, I spoke about AMICA, its role, its members, its activities, and its helpfulness. After the show, I noted that several AMICA brochures were missing. Approximately 150 people turned up for the show, which is considered a success, for something like 75-100 normally appear for the Sunday afternoon concerts. Furthermore, the vVinnipeg Blue Bombers were playing a home game, and there were also two first class recitals elsewhere in the city. Very few people left during intermission and about 35 came up on stage for informal inspection, discussion, and more music for another hour following the concert. Considerable interest was expressed in doing it again next year. If it does come to pass, perhaps I'll also use my recently acquired Welte Vorsetzer fitted to a 9 foot Yamahah concert grand already there on the Art Gallery stage. Terry Smythe introducing his next guest artist to play his Will these activities generate positive interest? I surely hope Mason & Risch Duo-Art 011 the stage of the Winnipeg Art so, for after 6 years of being the only collector in my area, it Callery. would be delightful to share experiences, visit socially, and generally participate in all those nice things AMICAns do in 2:00 p.m. other more fortunate areas that I can only read about with Sunday, October 29 green eyes in the AMICA Bulletin. Muriel Richardson Auditorium with host, TERRY SMYTHE THE WINNIPEG ART GALLERY Through the magic of a rare antique reproducing grand piano,

UJ legendary masters of the piano return to "life" to perform for you ~ 14!----.J~ a selection of superb music: ~ z SELECTION COMPOSER PLAYED BY UJ U U U Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 Liszt Ignace Jan Paderewski C/) lc= 0 Josef Hofmann => Z Heroic Polonaise in A-Flat, Op. 53 Chopin ~ « Rustle of Spring Sinding Rudolf Ganz c.. ~« Concerto in A-Minor, Op. 16 Grieg Percy Grainger >-:::c -= UJ ~« :::c Etude, Op. 10, No.3 Chopin Alfred Cortot UJ~ x: ~ Lucia di Lammermoor Donizetti Erno Rapee -l« ~ u.. -l>- 0 Ritual Dance of Fire de Falla Arthur Rubinstein « C/) t-':::c ~ f-~ UJ INTERMISSION ~=: ~ « 0 IJ'l C/) « t-'Z ~ II ~ Dance of the Hours Ponchielli Robert Armbruster UJO Z c.. - UJ N~~ >- -~ IJ'l ~ Boccherini's Famous Minuet Boccherini Harold Bauer Z« UJ Z~ « Fantasie Impromptu, Op. 66 Chopin Ossip Gabrilowitsch ~ II!--.J~ Cl -UJ c.. Z La Campanella Liszt Ferruccio Busoni =:c.. UJ UJC? t-' Valse Brillante, Op. 34, No.1 Chopin Ignace Jan Paderewski :::CO ~e- UJ f-U It -l Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin George Gershwin Carmen Variations Bizet-Horowitz Vladimer Horowitz

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• We have all the events Iined up...

• We have the annual membership meeting lined up...

• We have many exhibitors lined up who are showcasing the newest, the oldest, the best - and we're looking for more. Contact: Mike Naddeo, 678 9th Ave., Prospect Park, Pa. 19076 (215) 534 5393

• We're al most ready to accept registrations...

• We have a problem. We cannot accept more than 250 registrations, so ... first come, fi rst served.

• Advance enthusiasm indicates this year's bash will be the biggest and most enjoyable ever. Larry Cornell, Chairman

Qr:J ~hiij~~e'p~)i SEE YOU INIJ'i:s::~2~ IN '79 AMICA INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION - June 29 thru July 3 A COMPLETE LIST OF THE ARTISTS WHOSE PLAYING MAY BE HEARD ON THE AMPICO

Clarence Adler Blanche Goode Yolanda Mera *Eugen d'Albert Katharine Goodson Edward Morris Luba d'Alexandrowsky *Edvard Grieg Raphael Navas Harry Archer Thomas Griselle Leo Ornstein Victor Arden Alfred Gumble Maud Pierson Adriano Anaoi Mark Hambourg Lew Pollock ·Wilhelm Bachaus Hans Hanke Muriel Pollock Frank Banta Leander Hansen Eugenic de Primo ·Harold Bauer Jane Harold Wynne Pyle William Berge Mabel Harrison Sergei Rachmaninoff Eubie Blake Gertrude Henneman Guiseppe Randegger Carrie Jacobs~Bond Theodore Henrico ·Gustave Reimann Adolphe Borchard Victor Herbert Adele Rosenthal Howard Brockway Ferdinand Himmelrelch Arthur Rubinstein Richard Buhlig Arthur Hochman ·Camille Saint,Saens • Ferruccio Busoni *Josef Hofmann Olga Samaroff Harriet Cady Fred. Albert Hoschke A. Schnabel-Tollefsen Teresa Carreno Herbert Hyde Germame Schnilzer Lew Cobey McNair ilgenfritz • Alexander Scriabine George Copeland Joseph Joiner Morris Simon Esther Cutchin Robert Joyce Harold Smith Leonard Davis Paul King Henry Souvaine Uriel DaVIS Bertha Klemen AI Sterling Maurice Dumesml Andrei Kmlta Dan Sullivan James Ecker Fritz Kreisler Milton Suskind Helen Louise Edgar Aurore La Croix Alice Sutherland Melville Ellis Frank La Forge Harry Thomas Edgar Fairchild Earl La Ross Mercedes Tucker George FaIrman Alexander Lambert Lillian Utz Edward Fink Joseph Lambert Marguerite Volavy Malvin Franklin Max Landow Mabel Wayne Hugo Frey Easlwood Lane Pete Wendling *Arthur Friedheim John Lederer James Whittaker Louis FoJiks Ethel Leginska Eleanor WlOogradoff *Ossip Gabrilowitsch Ralph Leopold OltO Wmlernitz .8 Paolo Gallico Mischa Leviu:ki Victor WlUgensteln Felix Gerdts Anhur Loesser Michael Zadora Harry Gilbert Donald Mackay Mana Zucca Leopold Godowsky *Pietro Mascagoi

THE ARTISTS WHOSE PLAY­ tions. He has recorded many of his own com­ [lositions, including the famous "C Sharp Minor ING IS BROUGHT INTO YOUR Prelude." HOME WITH THE AMPICO Mischa Levitzki, the young pianist who has in a single season taken his place in the front rank ofthe world's greatest, recordsonly for the Ampico. HE roster of artists whose playing may Leo Ornstein, the apostle of modern music, be heard by means of the Ampico and at the same time a reverent interpreter of the , is a very remarkable one. classics, records for the Ampico exclusively. (l In the classic masterpieces of music Fritz Kreisler, whose fame as a violinist has the interpretations of the greatest hidden his great pianistic gifts, has played many pianists in the world are offered. Of these. of his best-known ,works transcribed by him­ Godowsky, Rachmaninoff, Hambourg, Ornstein, self for the piano. Kreisler's piano records will Levitzki, Carreno, Copeland, Rubinstein, Mero, be made only for the Ampico. Ariani, Samaroff, Schnitzer, Leginska, Buhlig, Du­ Victor Herbert, beloved everywhere for his mesnil, Borchard, have all made their records in exquisite light operas, will himself play his best the Ampico Recording Studios. numbers for this instrument. In addition, by special arrangement with Aurore La Croix, the young artist who is Ludwig Hupfeld, we have secured for America:n coming to be recognized as one of the greatest music lovers records made in Europe of the play­ of contemporary women pianists, will record only ing of Busoni, Bauer, Hofmann, Saint-Saem, Masca.sni, d'Albert, Gabrilowitsch, Grieg, Bac­ for the Ampico. haus, Friedheim and Scriabine, which have been Leopold Godowsky will hereafter play for this scientifically adapted for the Ampico. Others in instrument exclusively, and, in addition, has been preparation include Cortot, Scharwenka, Pugno, retained to direct the editing and making of the Ansorge, Grunfeld, Landowska, Mentor, Pauer, Standard and Classic Portions of the Catalogue. Pierne, Reisenauer, Sapellnikoff, Strauss and many George Copeland and Mana Zucca also will others. hereafter play for the Ampico exclusively. Truly a wonderful array of supreme musical art, which becomes yours to command with the Brockway, Volavy, Kmita and Gerdts head possession of an Ampico. the long list of temperamental pianists who are masters in the interpretation of the lighter classics EXCLUSIVE AMPICO ARTISTS and music of the tuneful sort that we all love. Rachmaninoff, whose concert appearances Artists who play the popular music and cur­ in this country have proved a musical sensation rent rag-time are Broadway favorities who bring such as has not been equalled in many years, will their best efforts for the delight of Ampico owners, record his playing exclusively for the Ampico, insuring performances replete with just the right finding in that instrument only complete satisfaction accent and rhythm which music of this character in the reproduction of his art for future genera- requires.

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tempos and tone quality as he desired. No record is left as to his musical ability to manipulate the expression controls for RESIDENCE PIPE ORGANS satisfactory sound! BY EMMETT M. FORD Dr. Charles Mayo, the greatest surgeon of history, owned a valuable automatic pipe organ. Dr. Mayo said, "I get something from playing my organ which is of a recreative and The manufacture of residence pipe organs was an industry as reconstructive value and which 1 can find no other way. It large and equal in popularity as the reproducing and/or helps to rest and rebuild me every day. I would have given player piano. There were many names but they were, as with anything if I had had a musical training. They have organs player pianos, later merged with other companies until only a that are automatic. That is, you can start them going and then few well-known names remained. At the time of industrial go off and listen to them; but I like to sit at the instrument and barons building huge mansions the residence pipe organ was a vary the stops and dynamics so that 1 feel I am, in part at status symbol and ideal for installation in the huge homes. least, controlling the music." Pipe organs had been installed in theaters and their popularity was now extended to homes. They were the results of much research and were magnificent instruments equal to their surroundings. For twenty years until 1930 pipe organs were installed in the elegant music rooms or giant halls of mansions and helped to line the pockets of the organ builders. Aeolian specialized in this field with a wide selection but there were other builders such as Skinner, Moller, Austin, Kimball and Estey. Skinner advertised that without any technical knowledge one could learn to play "these beautifully arranged rolls in a few hours with orchestral brilliance, absolute mastery of the expression, the tempo and the phrasing." Some of the men of wealth learned to play the organs and attained remarkable skill which helped them to derive great joy from the instruments. The excellent and beautiful pipe organs were operated by perforated paper rolls. The rolls were either inserted in the area of the console above the manual or they were inserted in magnificently designed period cabinets placed in the room or adjacent rooms. The Duo-Art and Welte cabinets were fine pieces of furniture. Some roll cabinets were placed in the maSter bedroom where a roll could be inserted and the owner could hear the music at will. Roll mechanisms were also installed in specially designed areas of the wall of a room. (See photo of a 1923 Welte pipe organ, May 1974 AMICA Bulletin contributed by Jeffrey Finn, February 1973, and August 1977-installations). The consoles were beautifully designed and quite ornate in carving and period styling. The cases were ornate and magnificent in design to hide the pipes. Some of the American plutocrats, Carnegie, Frick, Rockefeller and others hired organists to play for them. Archer Gibson became a sort of "court organist" having played for many of the wealthy pipe organ owners. This organist designed many of the organs for installation. The organ in the Eastman mansion was played by an organist while the owner had his breakfast on the terrace. The organ was also played by rolls Aeolian Pipe Organ console in the Henry C. Frick mansion. which were inserted by domestic help. Copyright the Frick Collection, New York-used with A few organ owners always had a regret they were not trained permission. to perform and enjoy the experience of "making" their own music rather than to watching the little perforations pass over In the 121-room mansion of Senator William A. Clark was a the tracker bar. One wealthy man, who had a large estate colossal pipe organ. The Senator died in 1925 at the age of 86 landscaped to perfection, the mansion baronial in its and the funeral was held in his mansion. It was reported that stateliness and furnished in splendid taste with treasures from "from the bowels of the 121-room mansion the colossal organ Europe, owned a beautiful pipe organ which he said cost him wailed and sang and whined. Its 65 stops all lent their syrupy a fortune. Various rolls were played while he controlled the voices-the great organ bawled and brayed; the choir organ swelled and sobbed and twittered, its tremolo stop full out; registration, volume and tempo. Welte had a long list of the echo organ magnified the caterwaulings; the 31 famous organists who made rolls for their Welte Philharmonic combinations united all the pipes in one last earthly blast, the pipe organ. A magnificent Welte was installed in the home of 23 couplers brought the manuals together in a peal of the famous female singer, Adelina Patti. The home was lamentation that may well have given God-fearing residents of actually a castle called "Craig-y-nos." The proud Welte 5th Avenue the impression that the Day of Judgement was at company advertised their product with photos of the hand." installation in the castle-see history of this Welte in Q. David The late and great "five and ten cent store" magnate, Frank Bowers' book Put Another Nickel In, page 11. Woolworth, had a player pipe organ installed in his Fifth The Wurlitzer Pipe Organ Company manufactured a player Avenue mansion. It was a magnificent organ and his collection unit. Farny WurIitzer, a good friend of the famous and of player rolls included every piece that Mr. vVoolworth heard popular organist Jesse Crawford, talked the organist into and liked. He delighted in taking friends up a marble staircase making a journey to the factory to make some rolls. Mr. into the great second-floor drawing room and treating them to Crawford, as related in Dr. John W. Landon's book Jesse a concert with surprising features. The room was paneled with Crawford, Poet of the Organ: Wizard of the Mighty Wurlitzer, carved light oak decorated with gold embellishments. But was not happy in making the rolls and did not enjoy the when he touched one of the buttons under his fingers, the sessions.. The twenty rolls did reproduce well. The roll guests would be in utter darkness. Then, after profound making sessions required two trips and several days and the rumblings, the music would begin and a pinkish-amber glow, music was of the period when Mr. Crawford played the most flattering to the ladies, would fill the room. The source organs in various theaters and the large WurIitzer organ in the of the light was concealed behind the ceiling cover. According Paramount Theatre. (This Wurlitzer pipe organ is now to the mood of the music or the mood of the Woolworths, installed in Century II in Wichita, Kansas. The writer of this pinkish-amber light would gradually be transferred to green, article contributed much money and time to the restoration to deep mauve, and other color tones until the piece was and installation of the organ in its present home.) There were finished. Leading from the organ were conduits for the sounds two types of rolls made by Mr. Crawford; the model 'R'-the it made; some had trumpet-like ends in the newels of the regal larger of the two, and the model 'Rr-a smaller version of the marble staircase; others distributed the sound to some remote 'R.' Mr. Crawford made the 'R' directly and the recording parts of the house; some carried the least whisper into closets machine penciled marks where holes were later punched. The in the Woolworth's bedroom. Even the posts of Mr. 'R' roll had holes for registration and expression changes, Woolworth's bed were hollow and linked with conduits so as making a more sophisticated piece of equipment of the to make' the bed itself an actual sensitive member of the playback system than would the average roll for the popular amazing instrument. There were nights 'when he and Jennie player piano. The twenty rolls were played on a 3 manual, 13 lay snuggled in their bedclothes while some pied-piper of the rank (3/13) WurIitzer owned by Richard Villemin of household worked the organ and lured their minds off on Porterville, California to make the Lp recording S1214/15 pathways that led them into the past when they were poor. entitled "Jesse Crawford; Poet of the Organ." Mr. Crawford The organ could be made to do other tricks. A Hungarian cut the rolls on a 3/14 WurIitzer organ in the factory studio in artist of the day, Joannes de Tany, hired by Mr. Woolworth, North Tonawanda, New York. painted against allegorical backgrounds the portraits of Beethoven, Wagner, Liszt, Mendelssohn and others. Thereafter, a guest might be subjected to a weird experience; faint as a spirit's presence, a glow of light would appear above the organ and as the light grew and the music could be identified, what seemed to be a apparition of its composer would be revealed. If a guest interrupted with applause, Mr. Woolworth's pride would have rolling organ repercussions that would shake the windows. Other sound and light effects were added. Woolworth could make a flash like lightning and when the organ thundered, from behind the walls would come another sound [ike torrents of rain! The Watkins home (Watkins Products) was built about 1927 at the cost of l)f million dollars. It was designed by the man who designed St. John the Devine Church in New York City. In the mansion located at Winona, Minnesota, was a large Aeolian residence Duo-Art reproducing pipe organ. It had 87 ranks with a full 32-foot wood open diapason. The organ could be played manually as well as with rolls. In conjunction, a Steinway concert grand could be played' from the organ console or manually or with Duo-Art rolls. The eminent publisher Cryus H. K. Curtis delighted in the fine pipe organ in his home. He was not obliged to depend solely on an automatic player as he had musical training and loved to improvise. The pipe organ was a great solace to him after pressing office duties. The Dr. Charles H. Mayo pipe organ console. Many of the organ rolls did not have expression holes and the owner could make the registration and tempo changes at his Aeolian had been making automatic player mechanisms for will, but there were rolls having perforations for automatic both reed organs and pianos and the adaptation of a smaller

- 212 - device to the pipe organ was largely responsible for the English organ builder who had been an employee of popularity of the residence organs. One of the player units Wirsching since 1906. The local press was awed by the self­ was called the "Concertola." Few individuals were blessed player and commented the Maharajah could now listen to with the money to buy the large pipe organs and the smaller Guilmant's "Grand Chorus," Barnaby's "Sweet and Low," or reed organ, with player mechanisms installed, became Batiste's "Offertoire" by means of this marvelous mechanism popular due to the price and size. Wick Organ Company of which, it noted in italics, was capable of playing the solo part Illinois manufactured a remote player unit and a small on one manual and the accompaniment on the other. \... residence organ. The mechanical mind of John Austin produced a player system. It was described as "the Austin Self-Player Mechanism" operating three 61-note manual keyboards, the 32-note pedal keyboard, 32 speaking stops, two sets of expression shades and the crescendo device. The magazinetype Austin player could perform twenty different compositions in any sequence pre-selected by the operator thereby affording a recital of some two hours duration. After the last number had been played, the entire mechanism, including the organ blower, came to rest automatically. In the late 1920s the Moller Company introduced an automatic organ called the "Artiste." The process for cutting rolls differed from other systems in that the artist had only to determine the rhythm. The notes, cut by a technician, required no actual playing. Using this process, the number of rolls that could be reproduced were not limited by practical performance possibilities. Melodies could be given a solo treatment or a massive harmonic style could be used at will. The Moller "Artiste" was particularly suited to playing orchestral transcriptions and most of the rolls cut for this instrument were of that nature. Farrand and Votey began building organs for the Aeolian Company in New York in the early 1890s. The first was installed in Aeolian Hall. In 1895, Edwinn S. Votey invented the Pianola. This instrument, along with the development of the Duo-Art organ and the Duo-Art piano, placed tile Aeolian company in the forefront of manufacturers of player instruments. In 1899 the Votey company merged with the Aeolian Company and the factory was located in Garwood, New Jersey where the Pianola and other Aeolian instruments Ornate front of the four manual Aeolian player pipe organ were manufactured in quantity. To meet overseas demands, pipework at the staircase landing in the Frick Museum of Arl. Aeolian factories were established in France, England and Photo copyright 0/ the' Frick Collection, New York-used Germany. with permission. Henry Clay Frick, one of the founders of the H. C. Frick Coke Company, a major supplier to the Pittsburgh steel A three-manual Aeolian organ (Number 559) with 4,075 pipes industry, constructed a house in 1913-14 at 70th and 5th was installed in the great hall of the one and a half million Avenue, the former site of the Lenox Library. The house was dollar estate of the circus magnate, John Ringling at Sarasota, designed by Thomas Hastings with interior decorations by the Florida. This residence was called "Ca'D'Zan" (house of John Piccirilli Brothers and Sir Charles Allom. The home, a place in Venetian dialect). The organ was installed in 1925 at a cost for a permanent collection of art treasures collected by Mr. of $50,000. The console was elaborately carved and located Frick, has a 4-manual Aeolian player pipe organ. The organ near the south wall of the hall. The pipe chambers were was designed by Archer Gibson, a well-known organist, who placed above the balcony walls, concealed behind 17th often performed on this pipe organ after its installation. The century Flemish tapestries. The instrument may be played console is in a niche on the first floor and the richly decorated either by the player mechainsm or manually. Duo-Art rolls and ornate front is on the stair landing which covers the organ automatically operate the stops, tempo and expression, etc. pipes. The organ may be played manually or with rolls. The The organ is also operated by Aeolian solo Music rolls which museum is open to the public. require a performer to control the stops, tempo, expression, etc. The residence was willed to the state of Florida and is One American-built chamber organ with automatic player had open to the public along with the Ringling Museum of Art a romantic history. In the early 1900s, George Ashdown which John and Mable Ringling had built to house their Audsley and J. Burr Tiffany formed the Art Organ Company, important Baroque art collection. Mr. Joseph Schirr installed a not-too-successful attempt to market chamber organs the organ and maintained it for forty years. The organ had designed by Audsley. The instrument was built by the some restoration to playable condition in 1975 by Tommy Wirsching Organ Company and one was displayed in White, a Jacksonville, Florida restoration specialist assisted by Steinway Hall in New York. The musically educated his son, Billy. The restored organ was used in a dedication Maharajah of Mysore contracted Wirsching to build one, recital Tuesday, December 16, 1975. The organ was a constant exactly as the one displayed, for his ornate new palace. The source of pleasure to the Ringling family and Mr. Ringling had instrument was installed in 1908 by Stanley Williams, an favorite selections in the roll collection.

- 213 - In the early 1920s estates were built in the Hollywood Hills on Sunset Boulevard. One was built by Rudy Valee called Harold Way, but Valee never lived in it. Most of the homes were destroyed because no one could afford the maintenance of the cflmica large estates. \\'aladzin Valentino Liberace bought the Valee Mansion to save it from destruction and filled it \vith valuable antiques. A pipe organ had been installed about 1925 which had an attachment to play organ rolls as well as being manually played. The house had been empty for many years SEEBURG PARTS FOUND mecha~ism and mice and rats had gotten into the destroying BY ART REBLITZ the bellows. Liberace had the mechanism rebuilt and found it to contain different musical instruments such as xylophones, I found the remains of a keyboard style Automatic Musical drums, cymbals and bird calls. Company nickelodeon with all the player mechanisms, piano Albert M. Johnson, who furnished the money for Scotty to be action and piano keys missing. The soundboard, bridges, a big spender and create a myth of gold being found in Death plate, pinblock and strings are present and seem to be Valley, built a home in Grapevine Canyon in 1922. Mr. identical to the style of Seeburg G or H which used the Johnson ordered an organ to be built for the "Castle." The twopiece plate with the lower portion painted black and the Welte 3/10 organ was installed about 1931 with two automatic upper portion (pinblock cover) painted gold. If anyone has a roll players-one a single roll player and the other a 10 roll G or H with a completely ruined back or a broken two-piece player. The organ was dedicated in 1932 by the organist plate, or if someone is trying to build a perfect copy of a G or Albert Hay Mallotte and guests enjoyed a four day festival. H from scratch, the owner will probably sell this for a very The Welte 10 roll player was removed in 1940 and a 6 roll low price. If anyone is interested in this, call me at 303­ changer was put in its place. Rex Koury, organist, arranger 5982538 between 8-10 p.m., Monday through Thursday. and conductor has recorded this organ on National Custom Record Number 1130. Wealthy men who installed pipe organs in their mansions were Cyrus H. K. Curtis (Aeolian), P. S. DuPont (Aeolian), Senator W. A. Clark and Charles M. Schwab (Aeolian), \\!. C. Runyon (Austin), C. P. Hagenloscher (Austin), Wm. Chattin Wetherill (Austin), Frederick W. Schmidt (Aeolian), George Eastman aolls and JJrusic (Aeolian), John 1'. Austin (Austin), Arthur Hudson Marks •L c: "'7. (Skinner) and many others. In fact, there were many residence pipe organs, both large and small, installed throughout the United States. Many small player organs were installed in funeral parlors. The "rest-in-piece-under-the-sod'; type of music recorded on the rolls is not an attraction to collect the PIANO ROLL REVIEW rolls. BY DAN TUTTLE Dick Barnes has fully and interestingly described an Aeolian in 88-NOTE ROLLS Colorado in his article, "Aeolian in the Rockies," page 3-6 of the August, 1973 AMICA Bulletin. There are several "Since Maggie Dooley Learned to Hooley Hooley" - The interesting photographs. Also refer to the "Jackling Residence piano roll is Perfection #86875 and is played by Jack Organ" (Aeolian/Kilgen) by Jim Crank in the AMICA Bulletin Valentine. The song is a one step type tempo written by of August 1977, page 135. Meyer. The writer is not very well informed about a dance called the Hooley Hooley or a chick named Maggie Dooley Books could be written about the history, installation and but can reassure a listener of this roll that the arrangement is description of the many organs built and installed in homes. very good although there are no words. The keyboard almost Some have been removed and installed elsewhere, others Hooley Hoolies for you, thanks to the active hands of Mr. Jack destroyed, and many probably still exist where they were Valentine. A very good 88-note production. installed-in deplorable condition and silent. "Four O'Clock Blues" - Just like money, laughter and love, (My thanks for information to Dick Hull, Jim Bratton, Doug the old clock on the wall was no exception when it came time McGee-Watkins Mansion Organ, Christine Shaw of the to drag it through the piano and the pages of musical history. Information Department of the John and Mabel Ringling The song is written by Dunn and Horsley and published by Museum, and Mr. Edgar Munhall-Curator of the Frick Perry Bradford Music Company in 1921. The roll is QRS collection. EMF) #2144 and is played by Pete Wendling. As usual, the sound of the blues number and the style of Mr. Wendling are well matched. "So I Took The $50,000" - This song tends to arouse curiosity ELECTRIC BAGPIPE INVENTED that makes you think a criminal mind was at work writing this BY CHARLES LILLY one. The song was written by Gumble and copyrighted by Jerome H. Remick & Company in 1923. The roll is Melodee It was announced on national radio in October, 1978, that #5195 played by Frank Banta. The gist of the song is that the Angus McCelland of Scotland had just finished making the Uncle croaked and left this cat something like $50,000. Wow! world's first electric bagpipe. The only detail given was that it That much even sounds good in 1978. The music to this song has an adjustable volume control. isn't much to get excited over, however, you do get to watch this guy spend all that cash.

- 214 - "American Pie" -A song written by Don IvfcLean in 1971 and published by May Day Music and Yahweh Tunes, Inc. The song was recorded on a record disc by Don McLean on the United Artists Label. The QRS Company picked up the song Contrilmted l)y Evelyn Meeder. in February 1972 as QRS #10-468 recorded by Rudy Martin. The roll \.vas extra large as compared to a standard roll, clue to the original disc recording running about eight minutes in length. The roll arrangement could have been bdter and it should have been better, but you guessed it. right-another STILL PLA YS THE PIANO cake fell before it was out of the oven. A future Mint Condition Roll.

She started with silent films

By Charles Chamberlain CHICAGO lA'l - Merle AMer­ son says being locked ·In time makes her feel younger. She began playi.ng the piano for silent movies when she was 13 - and 75 years later she's still at it. • 'The trim, smartly dressed lit­ tle woman keeps memories flowing down "Yesterday's Main Street" in the Museum of Science and Industry. Her fingers race over the piano keyboard at the Nickelo­ deon Theater,· accompanying the silent movies with appropri· ate music - registering the emotional ups and downs from her repertoire of hundreds of songs stored in her head. She creates a complete soundtrack for each 12-minute film and does it four times an hour, six hours a day, Wednes­ AP Las.,photo day through Saturday. For each movie she may MERLE ANDERSON plays piano in accompaniment to screening of a select bits from about 20 ditties, silent film at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. like "Silver Threads Among the Gold," "Hearts and Flowers," days," says Mrs. Anderson. worth - who ran.the projector, was thrilled with the SOUllO "Two Hearts in Three-Quarter "About the only thing that's arranged the music and sang ­ movies," she says. "Then they Time." changed is it costs a dime to get and her mother, Hannah, who gave me a job, matching. the in instead of a nickel." did sound effects. They toured sound track on big records with Mrs. Anderson capttires on in Michigan. the news reels." the piano the swaying ocean in Mrs, Anderson, a widow since "Cut Adrift," starring Fatty 1945 and childless, is considered "I studied music for a while Mrs. Anderson stllCk with her Arbuckle; the hurry-up of a another of the irreplaceable at the St. Louis (Mich.) conser· piano work aftertaJki~$' too~ chase in the Our Gang comedy items at the museum where she vatory and in 1911 went with my oller. She played and soldsbeet "Dog Days;" the somber low has worked since 1958. parents when they opened the music in Chicago aDd for 20 notes of a mustache-twirling "When she goes, we'll use her Mirror Theater in Davenport," years· played for dance sdjools viliain; the tinkly notes of a piano tapes. But· she's still she recalled. "In 1913 I was t>eforebeing hired by the mUSe­ heroine holding a nosegay to going like 60 althOUgh she's working on my own at t\1eo1d um. Colonial Theater in Rock Is­ her qUivering nostrils; the going on 89," says a spokesman. "The ~ecret of my work iif land, playing the piano and the Iturdy sounds of the hero saving "Noone could ever replace being able to pl,lll. bits and organ. And· I was around the the day; the Low Cof a fall. Merle." pieces of songs out of my head Quad-Cities areaWheo talkies­ From the audience there are Mrs. Anderson says she start· came in: 1929 with' AI Jolson's for the bad guys, applause boos ed playing the piano for silents ~Jaiz Singer: for the hero, laughs for the in 1903 in a touring show owned '~Although it meant my job, I pratfalls: "Just like the old by her father, Dallas Wood·

- 215 - Wood, SUhdoy, September 24, 1978 ~ CUl1lrilmled hy Al! E. Werolil1. c1't. rBati[ornia '/ CLASSICAL RECORDS A TRIP TO TAHOE Dohnanyi-A Salute BY STU HUNTER The Founding Chapter's September meeting was held at Casa De Cara, the Lake Tahoe summer home of Ray and Carol To His lOlst Bauer on Saturday afternoon of the 16th. Tahoe is an easy drive from the bay area and more than 30 members and By Heuwell Tircuit guests were present. The weather was perfect and the beautiful drive over the Sierras only added to the enjoyment HE centennial of Ernst von known chamber pieces, the of this event. Dohnanyi last year slipped Piano Quintet, opus 1 and the by without much to-do. He was Serenade, opus 10 for string already out of the main stream Trio, are offered by the New by' about 75 years when he died London QUintet Leonard Bernstein is to the desired. Intonation is a bit lax. current American scene. Still, for those who enjoy the chamber music of Brahms, The record industry, like these works are sure to have the concert world, did little for great appeal. the centennial, but a few things have come to the sur· DOHNANYI: Variations on j face. Two enterprising HNH a Nursery Tune; Capriccio in label releases focus on some of F minor. LISZT: Hungarian Dohnanyi's major music - one Fantasia; Mephisto Waltz No. devoted to his solo piano musk 1. (Earl Wild, piano; New and another to his chamber Philharmonia; Christoph von Host Ray Bauer mingles with guests. music. Dohnanyi, conductor in Vari­ Dohnanyi was one of those ations. Royal Philharmonic; composers who was too talent­ Russel) Stanger, conductor in ed for his own good. As Berlioz Fantasia.) Quintessence PMC· said of Saint-8aens, "His music 7054. lacks inexperience." The piano No quibble here, this is a musiC' is facile, wonderfully sensational disc. The music written for the keyboard, bra­ represents the composers' best vura and entertaining. But it is efforts and the sheer virtuoso never more than that, never effect of the performance is profound, never seeking for overpowering. Add to this an more than its Own inner con­ exceptionaJly fine pressing, ex­ viviality.

- 216 - Casa De Cara occupies a maganificent site which overlooks October meeting at the La Palma home of Alan and Margie the lake. The home was planned and designed by Ray, and in Armstrong on the afternoon of Saturday, 21 October 1978. every way can be described as "perfection plus." Built on a The members were entertained by music from the steep hillside on two levels, it makes use of large expanses of Armstrong's 1917 Ellington upright with Welte (Licensee) natural wood, glass and deck space. There is an interesting reproducer. This was the first "Velte many of us have heard spiral staircase between the two levels. The lower level houses for quite some time. Quite a few members have pianos with Ray's 1927 Reproduco piano/pipe organ and 1924 Fischer Ampico systems and some have Duo-Arts but not too many Ampico upright. The remainder of his collection is housed at have Weltes. "- his other home in Sacramento. Guests started arriving even before the designated time of 4 p.m. and the last stragglers did not leave until after midnight. Ray provided a sumptuous spread of hors d'oeuvres and cheeses to sample with an outstanding collection of California wines. Later in the evening we were served a buffet dinner with more wine. The highlight of the evening was watching the full moon rise over the lake as the Fischer Ampico played Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata." There was even a high powered telescope on the deck from which one could get an even closer look at the moon.

Host & Hostess Alan and Margie Armstrong.

In addition to the Welte, members were able to hear music from a Chickering 5-foot 2-inch baby grand with Ampico A reproducer which had been received by the Armstrongs only two days previously. The Chickering was in excellent condition and received its share of attention from the \.... members. Our next regular meeting will be our annual Christmas party to be held at the home of Ben and Mary Lilien on the evening of Saturday, 16 December 1978. Host and guests enjoy the deck which overlooks the lake.

Ray's large collection of organ and piano rolls kept the instruments busy for most of the afternoon and evening. The next day, many members who stayed at nearby motels remained at the Jake to have brunch and try their luck at the casinos. Wouldn't it be nice if a "trip to Tahoe" became a crezas tradition like our annual Christmas party at Dick Reutlinger's? How about it Ray?

AMICA IN ARLINGTON BY DICK BARNES &. eatijorlzia A variety of music from Rachmaninoff to Goodman (Benny, that is) was in store for the many who attended the October meeting at the home of Myriam and Tony Palmer in Arlington, Texas. The two reproducing pianos are placed far enough apart so that running interference with each other is kept to a ARMSTRONGS HOST minimum. The Louis XV Knabe Ampico is in the living room with its well chosen library of rolls and the upright Steinway OCTOBER MEE"r1NG Duo-Art is at the other end of the house in a room that has a BY BILL TOEPPE sort of intimate "club" atmosphere complete with bar. There is a very nice Victrola Style XVI with some choice records "­ The AMICA Southern California Chapter held its regular here. Tony is a fan of Bert Williams, the early Ziegfeld Follies

- 217 - turned into a regular marathon but many important business items were taken care of and more light than heat was generated. New officers for the coming year were suggested and the Christmas party was discussed. The party will be at the home of Carole and Tom Beckett on the tenth of December. AMICA thanks Tony and Myriam for a fun filled afternoon.

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SEPTEMBER PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER Members listen to host Tony Palmer's Wurlitzer ;uke box. MEETING star. Two beautifully restored Wurlitzer juke boxes complete BY ALLEN E. FORD with bubbles were just waiting to perform so the buttons were pushed and Benny Goodman's "Let's Dance" poured out and I The September meeting of the Philadelphia Chapter of was immediately back at Davis Sweet Shop in Colorado AMICA proved to be extremely interesting and entertaining as Springs remembering bobby sox and saddle oxfords and well as being a fine social gathering. The interest was trying to convince myself that it REALLY wasn't more than' generated by the many things Bob and Barbara Molesworth thirty years ago! Ah, well. Doesn't nostalgia come in two collect while the entertainment and social event portion were forms? I mean there is the type that creates a mood of a time due respectively to Dick Price at the Estey organ and an long before we were born and the other recalls things we assembly of AMICAns exchanging stories, enjoying actually remember. entertainment and discussing the local upcoming international convention. We entered the Molesworth home via the garage which did contain a 1930 Model A Ford and two single cylinder stationary gasoline engines-but these were the only signs of the garage-type function. The garage by and large is a display area for a large home-made orchestrion, a Seeburg nickelodeon, numerous battery set and line voltage radios, and photographs including a Victor Orthophonic and theater items. Beer, coke and coffee were available as one passed through the kitchen and the dining room displayed the typical AMICA refreshments of punch, potato chips, dip, pretzels, cookies, peanuts, etc.

L. to R.: Kay Baltzley, Becky Newton, Carole Beckett and Janet Tonnesen.

Myriam had prepared a table of wonderful exotic cheeses each labeled with its name and country of origin along with appropriate breads, white wine and coffee and those cockle shaped French pastries called Madeleines. The Madeleines came from Myriam's kitchen and they were delightful. It was interesting to note later in the day which of the cheeses was most popular. The Brie and a pungent variety also from L. to R.: Bob Rosencrans, Allen Ford, Fay & Clark Cressman France seemed to be tied for the winner and there was no and Bob Molesworth in the garage. question of the loser. Hardly anyone touched the American cheddar. The rooms were well appointed with music boxes, a Recordo About this time a short business meeting was announced. It grand, paintings and oriental carpets including a fine runner

- 218 - which descended the cellar steps to the theater room. The Vermuth). In the end the good guy, Harold, gets the good shy main area of the cellar was laid off and decorated as a theater girl, the princess. including a projection booth, seats, lights, curtains, screen, two Dick composed and wrote the theme music for this silent film m\lnual six rank Estey pipe organ with percussion (1924) and and his choice of playing of background music was an anteroom like a to-scale lobby with an early 1937 Seeburg exceptional as the two blended as one, making the film the juke box. The organ chamber was located behind the screen highlight of the day. and was accessable via the anteroom and workshop which were. adjacent to the theater and organ chamber respectively. We also viewed Dick Merrill's slides of past conventions and "­ held a 1979 Convention business meeting. After the meeting about half of the attendees took dinner at a local restuarant which featured a birthday cake for Beverly Naddeo.

PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER AREA TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY, OCTOBER 22 BY DICK PRICE Imagine, if you will, a bus load of thirty-plus happy people leaving Prospect Park, south of Philadelphia, happily quaffing champagne, looking forward to the prospect of seeing two of New York's most interesting attractions-the atelier of a top restorer and the collection of a top collector. Imagine, if you will, beautiful weather, a friendly ambience, and the memory of a nearly perfect Sunday afternoon and Dick Price at the Estey console. you will be able to share with the Philadelphia Area Chapter the character of their trip. The main event was, of course, Dick Price's expert playing of the Estey. Dick played several numbers to introduce us to the organ including the toccata from the "Toccata and Fugue in D" by Bach which is the theme from the 1925 silent film, 'The Phantom of the Opera." Dick continued by accompanying the 22-minute piece of Harold Lloyd's "His Royal Shyness," released February 8, 1920. Dick informed us that this was the first film Lloyd used his hom rimmed glasses persona in. Harold's brother, Gaylord, played a prince from "the little Kingdom of Thermosa, adjoining the Isle of Roquefort, and the coast of Razzamatazz." The prince has been sent to America to be educated, "if that's possible." In walks a travel agent, played by Harold, the prince's double. The fun begins with the apparent twins mixup. HarQld is sent to the Kingdom of Roquefort in place of the prince.

Deborah and Len Wert pet Bob Frazier's "ferocious" Great Dane while Bob Rosencrans looks on-Doris Berry isn't too sure! Our first goal was the atelier of Marion R. (Bob) Frazier and Joel I. Levine (pronounced Leveene) on the 12th floor of 12 West 12th Street in the Village. Bob restores pneumatic instruments and Joel spring wound (I am sure there is some overlapping, but that seemed to be generally their specialities). These two businessmen employ four workers and keep one gentle but ferocious-looking Great Dane, Cosmo, and one equally black but considerably smaller and less ferocious-looking pussycat, Nadu. All under one Dick Price has a captivated audience. skylightpunctuated roof. The most repeated comment from the group: "Gee, will you The themes contained therein are typical of the time: look at that floor? You can see your face in it. You could eat drunkeness (prohibition), political strife (the Russian from it-it's so CLEAN!" We were, no doubt, thinking of our revolution), and sexual liberation (the vamp-Verona own less than perfect workshops? Not to worry, gentlemen,

- 219 - these fine workers are human. How do I know? I overheard German food in an intimate atmosphere with German someone saying, "It took four days to clean this place up!" accented waitresses. Mike and Beverly Naddeo made a wise and tasty choice in finding for us such a gemutlich place. Bob is currently working on a 21-rank Welte Philharmonic. If that were not enough, he's completing the rebuilding of the Then on to Murtogh Guinness's collection close by. Words only 9' Knabe concert grand Ampico B ever known to leave nearly fail me in describing this collection-and our reception. the factory. I had one complaint-we didn't have enough time Mr. Guinness was on hand to host us and answer questions to visit and gawk. Joel was working on some fine music boxes. concerning his collection. Alan Lightcap, who rebuilt most of I asked him which was his favorite and he pointed to the one the perforated paper roll instruments was in attendance to he was currently working on. demonstrate them. Actually, the collection is really two collections: the paper roll (or book) instruments which use pneumatics, and those which use spring power. Rebuilder and inventor William Witt was on hand to guide us through the spring powered collection, most of which he rebuilt. I suppose that the loudest instrument to be demonstrated was a band organ which Alan Lightcap and John Strawkowski had rebuilt for Mr. Guinness. If that weren't enough, it played "The Railroad Rag" which Alan and John especially arranged for him. Mr. Guinness proudly told me that no one else had a copy. He also confided that he plays the drums along with the organ-what fun that must be!

Mike Naddeo's face expresses awe at the machinery & instruments in the Frazier/Levinne atelier. Note the poli~hed floor!

As we walked in, a 6'4" 1929 mahogany, double-leg Knabe Ampico (late A?) was playing. Personally I think that however well a reproducing piano reproduces, if I can't get a singing tone out of it myself, the piano isn't really finished. And from what I could see and hear and play, from the quiet Ampico mechanism to the elegantly polished casework to the finely balanced action and singing tone of this well-tuned Knabe which both Bob Rosencrans and I played, the ghosts of those who first built her must have been hovering benevolently above the 12th floor of 12 West 12th in eternal gratitude. Fay and Clark Cressman listen to the 6'4" Knabe (left). Welte Back on the bus we rubbernecked our way uptown to the east pipes in storage (right). Frasier/Levine atelier. 80s where we ate at the Kleine Konditorei at 234 East 86th. Alan demonstrated a mechanical banjo-an Encore circa 1900, then a mechanical harp, a Hupfeld PhonoLiszt-Violina Ronish which plays three violins, and a red roll Welte-Mignon. The Welte, said Alan, came from a ship and was made around 1906. 1 imagined people listening to it as it played a Schumann Toccata and dancing to it as it played James Reese Europe's ''The Castle House Rag." These rolls are wider than the piano rolls one usually sees-they are 12J~". This particular instrument looks like an upright with the lid closed for it has no keys for hand playing. 1 thought I heard a familiar tune and when 1looked 1saw that Mr. Guinness was kindly demonstrating for us an early type of juke box made by the Regina Company. It plays six Edison blue amberol cylinders. The familiar tune 1 heard was one 1 play myself, "The Hungarian Rag" published in 1913 and written by Julius Lenzburg. On to the spring and cam group: while the roll instruments were most often mass produced, these were, with the exceptions of those using mass produced discs and cuffs (I BiU Witt holds the French Pierrot and Crescent Moon in front guess the best way to describe a cuff is to say that it is a of a case full of Murtogh Guinness's automata.

- 220 - compromise between the shape of the cylinder and the disc; it and rubbing your tummy while hopping on one leg and is a cylinder truncated like a man's cuff-narrower at one end whistling). The most evocative (to me at least) was a French tha~ at the other-stamped out of metal as were the discs and Vichy-made Pierrot languishing with his mandolin serenading then curved to fit a mandrel). And as our master rebuilder and a crescent moon whose eye sleepily rolled and shut. guide, Bill Witt, said, if they don't work with absolutely Open bar, lovely food-shrimp (or "prawns" as my complete accuracy, they don't work at all. distinguished guest from Great Britian, Eric Tucker, called I suppose it must be Mr. Guinness's desire to own at least one them), crisp raw vegetables, ham, roast beef, fruitcup and of everything. If so he certainly has a good running start. What little sweet cakes, and coffee-all helped to make this a lovely collection of cylinder machines! If you. imagine your particular Philadelphia Area Chapter outing one of the most favorite, it will probably be there. One in particular was memorable in recent history. shown which explained something I didn't know before (and Now imagine , if you will, a bus full of contented people for those who did know it, please bear with me): one of the returning to Philadelphia. Some dozed, some sang, some Musical Box Society members in attendance who acted as dreampt of what they had seen-but all were content. guide showed me a cylinder at least 22" long with three combs. I couldn't understand why there should be so many combs until he pointed out that the bottom two were tuned one slightly sharper than the other and played simultaneously-just as a celeste stop on a pipe organ engages two sets of pipes simultaneously to achieve a beating celestial sound. These combs produce the sound called "sublime cJJ(ounfain harmony"-not surprisingly!

ROCKY MOUNTAIN MEETS AT BOB MOORE'S BY JERE DE BACKER Sunday, September 10th at president Robert Moore's home on South Jasmine in Denver was the setting for the Rocky Mountain Chapter fall meeting. The most exciting event which everyone was anxiously awaiting was Bob's new Marshall & Wendell Ampico A grand. Newly refinished and rebuilt throughout, it was a treat for everyone to see and hear. Also it is a great inspiration for those of us who are still working on our instruments. Dick Kroeckel did a tremendous job with the Ampico system, and with the Everyone so anxious to eat at the Kleine Konditorei that no piano shining from stem to stern, it gave new meaning to the one bothered to tum around! phrase "as good as new." Those AMICAns who don't have an Ampico grand in their living room really should consider it. One of the outstanding automata was one Bill Witt was particularly proud of rebuilding-a gymnast who lifts his body from the table on which he is resting and curls his feet back to touch his head. Then there was the opium smoker who had to be content to puff unfiltered cigarettes. And how about the cabbage head which opens a leaf to reveal a white furry monkey which sticks its tongue out at you? Or the little old man with a loud necktie which has a sign admonishing you to "pull up firmly" as you are engaged in the powder room? If you do "pull firmly," he spits water at you, laughs uproarously and winks and rolls his bleary eyes. Or the peacock which struts and opens and closes his tail? Or the Victorian schoolgirl who holds a tiny stage, the curtain of which opens to reveal a tinier acrobat twirling? Or the mechanical hen which almost refused to lay its wooden eggs (perhaps it wanted to be a rooster?). Or the two elderly gossips who simply sat and gossiped and gossiped. Or the oldest (18th century)-a mandolin playing monkey with an articulated mouth? Or how about Bill Witt's original creations-a carousel in a Don Wick, Ron HaU, Jere De Backer, and Art Tarr listen to glass dome, and something very new-an acrobat (which Bob Moore. looks something like Bill) which has both movement and Bob's Steinway upright Duo-Art should be just as beautiful articulation (the automaton equivalent of patting your head when it returns from the refinisher. It is a terrific sounding

- 221 - piano and we can hardly wait to see it too. All levels of the joined with their Chickering upright Ampico. Art Tarr is the house will have music and each with a different brand of proud new owner of a Knabe Ampico grand. All three are reproducer. (Bob has an AMICA dream house-Jots of big from Boulder, Colorado. We are happy to welcome Ron Hall rooms and a ground level entrance to the basement!) back to town also. AMICAns seem to be able to decorate a room so that it looks The turnout was one of the best of recent months and we are incomplete without a piano or two and Bob Moore's Kimble all hoping that the weather will hold out for the December ./ grand with a Welte (Licensee) system looks like it was made meeting at Jere De Backer's. for his living room. It was great fun going from one piano to another and sometimes finding both pianos playing at the same time.

PAULINE ALPERT HIGHLIGHTS NEW JERSEY MEETING BY BARBARA & RICHARD DEARBORN October 1, 1978 marked a very important first in the history of the New Jersey Chapter of AMICA. Pauline Alpert, the woman who sounds like two pianos, was the guest of honor at Jeanie Reblitz, "B. ]." Martin, and Bob Moore sample the the home of Mr. & Mrs. Richard Dearborn. Not only was this food. a great honor for New Jersey, but for the whole eastern AMICA region as never before has a recording artist attended an east coast meeting. The afternoon began normally with our usual business meeting. This was followed by Ms. Alpert who held us all spell-bound with her amazing talent on the keyboard. She / played a variety of the music that made her famous; from "Rain on the Roof' to several Gershwin favorites. When we finally allowed her to take a break from the piano, she was bombarded with questions about her career and those of other period artists with whom she was familiar. She also autographed several of her Duo-Art rolls and 78 r.p.m. records which several members had brought with them. Pauline was certainly an inspiration to be around. Not only is she still extremely gifted, but her marvelous sense of humor endeared her to everyone. We hated to see the afternoon end.

Most of the group pays close attention during the business meeting.

The business meeting was as usual-long enough to cover the subject and short enough to keep it interesting. The subject often being the next party, which we have no trouble getting together. Afterwards we had an informal swap meet and sale as Art Reblitz had brought along some goodies which only an AMICAn finds he cannot do without. Everyone got a Piano Owner's Guide by Carl D. Schmeckel and some more rare pieces like Duo-Art catalogs and various other pieces of information were also available. Carl Paetzold had three Solo Apollo rolls (approximately 151~ inches wide) made by the QRS company which were snapped up by this Apollo collector. The Rocky Mountain Chapter is growing too, with two new memberships. Carol Musser and Rae Burdette have recently Pauline is surrounded by admiring New Jersey AMlCAns.

- 222 - At the conclusion of the meeting, Bob Rosencrans and the was valuable in composition. group, jUst as Mussorgsky had officers of the New Jersey Chapter accompanied Pauline to Take the odd case of Cyril been among "The Five." dinner at a beautiful restaurant overlooking the Deleware Scott, born on September 27, England never really took to River near Trenton. Ms. Alpert kept us entertained throughout 1879. Next year is his centenni­ Scott. His successes, his advo­ dinner with numerous stories of her own experiences in the al, and ~me hopes - indeed cates and publishers were Ger­ 30s and 40s, not only about her years of association with the expects - that the British will man or Austrian. Hans Richter Aeolian Corporation, but also of the performances she gave make an effort at re\'ival ­ conduded the premieres of for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman just to mention America too! Scott's First Symphony and two! SCott was an exceptional "Heroic Suite" when he was fPllow, from any point of view: barely out of school. When his Pauline's appearance was made possible through the efforts of first Piano Quartet had its Bob Rosencrans and the generous offer of Ted Spangenberg composer, pianist, poet, critic, expert on occult matters in London premiere, the 22-year of the Player Piano Headquarters in Boonton, New Jersey to old composer could boast of provide his Cadillac limousine to drive her to and from the which he authored several books. He has had the sad fate Fritz Kreisler as his violinist. meeting. More than anything else, this meeting was the result of being kno\vn as a Johnny­ He knew the Mahlers, and of the effort of many people working together toward a Onework, and that one piece a indeed Alma Mahler invited common goal. It is our hope that this meeting marks the trifle of a salon piece, "Lotus him to Vienna after Gustav's beginning of an era of increased activity and participation on Land" - his opus 47, No. 1. death and saw to it that Scott's the part of east coast chapters in the on-going efforts of (That too has fallpn a\\'ay, but orc-hestral music had perform­ AMICA International. for more than a decade, it was ances. the piece most children were Beecham took something of forced to pray before amiable an interest in Scott's music. aunts or like \·ictims.) and conducted the premiere of the First Piano Concerto in A few recordings have come 1915. (Stokowski programmed along of Scott's piano works, it with his Philadelphia Orches­ including the two concertos. tra in 1920,) But most conduc­ JJioorapRical These were something of a tors and performers today re­ shock. One had always written mained indifferent when not him off as just another of 1hose outright hostile. &6efcRes quasi-harmless English eccen­ trics who dabbled in music-. Far Grove's Dictionary has car­ from it, Scott was a major ried articles on Scott which are progressive in English music snide and demeaning. "The and a quite unexpectedly pro­ Dictionary of Composers," an­ S.F. Sunday Examiner &.' Chronide lific composer of major works. other English publication, lists He died at age 91 in 1970, composers and works chrono­ World, Sundby, O'Cl'ober8; t-978 ignored and forgotten, but it lOlZically.1t was issued last May, had been a distinguished ca­ so I checked the 1879 listings, Contrihuted hI} Bill Knorp. reer in man~' ways. which begin "1879: Ireland. Respighi and Bridge were Son of a Greek scholar, he born." Composers as obscure as had been something of a pr0di­ John Ireland and Frank Bridge gy. Like many a 19th century lBenjamin Britten's teacher) English musician, he was are mentioned, but there is not Not Great packed off to Germany for a word on Scott - his birth, study. He entered the Hoch death or as far as I can find, his Conservatory of Frankfurt at music. age 12 as a piano student. He then returned to Liverpool for Scott is sometimes called the Scott, Just more study, where he devel­ English Debussy, but this is oped his interest in composi­ misleading. Scott was a color­ tion. So it was back to Frank­ ist, a "chol'dist" as Pen'Y Grain­ furt to study with Ivan Knorr, ger used to say, with an eye for Weird Cyril a German composer with odd colors and strange, scram­ strong sympathies fOf' Slavic bled time signatures. In the music of the more exotic kind. former, he was ahead of Debus­ By llt'uJ«>lI Tireuit sy, and, in the latter, ahead of Scott became known as a Stravinsky. This was one part HEN THE last train This did not matter much member of what British critics of the crux of Scott's problem. W pulled out of the station for performprs. They face little called "The Frankfurt Group." He was too advanced for the on 19th Century Romanticism pressure for originality or even Since aU five of this group ­ conservatives but too tied to about 1913, it left quite a few novelty. One could, and does, Scott, Percy Grainger, Norman traditional ideals for radicals musicians stranded on the plat­ get by playing the same old O'Neill (who became an influ­ and their followers. Then too, form. A few - like Richard Chopin waltzes and Beethoven ence in London's theater he had little use for European Strauss and Rachmaninoff ­ Quartets in the same old slop­ scene), song composer Roger or American folk music. He managed to chase it down the py, styleless way. For nothing Quilter and Henry Gardiner ­ disliked folk songs and dis­ track for another 30 years or is more honored in the arts were interested in Slavic mu­ missed jazz. so. But in the main, a lot of than the preservation of bad sic, the term was invented with musicians - performers as traditions. mild derision to mock the But Scott was a major influ­ well as composers - were left famous "Russian Five." Scott, ence on English music of his behind as cultural fossils. Yet this bloodless revolution day. VVhen George 'Bernard tended to discard much that oddly enough, was considered the least important of the - 223 - Shaw mentioned Elgar's adc - and "Lotus Land" is includ­ vanced harmony in the First ed.) . Symphony. Elgar cited Scott as the source. Holst,· Vau~n Another aspect of Scott's WHJj.an1£ and even Delius curious life was his writing and learned from Scott. Debussy poetry. His literary efforts wrote glowingly to and ~f were taken quite seriously, and Scott's work. indeed, the German poet Ste­ fan George was a close friend. Musicians tended to think of A British him as a literary man rather than a "real" musician. Some of this was covered in his book composer of memDirs, "Bone of Conten­ tion," published a year before who saw gurus his death. What is harder to swallow is his writing of musical aesthet­ and mediums, icsas a form of agnostic religion tied to the occult. and drank Here,he went further than . Scriabin. pOIson Highly polemic, be it in attacking jazz or defending herbists, he raised many a back "My music has its limita­ hair. He held that trends in tions," Debussy wrote to Scott music influence the direction "Yours permits of further ex­ of civilization in a quite imme­ pansion. You will go ahead. I diate way. Perform enough have written myself out." (De­ requiems, a man would destroy bussy quotes a bit of the Scott himself. Play enough jazz or First Piano Concerto in his similiar stuff track?), and man Etude No. 11, of 1915.) would turn animalistic. Was he right? This exceptional concerto is available on a fine disc, played by John Ogden with the Lon­ Among his causes were free don Philharmonic under con­ love, the need for gurus and ductor Bernard Hermann mediums to the dead, fait h (HNH4025.J A companion disc healing, naturopaths on one offers the 1956 Second Concer­ hand lusing sun, air and the to - a more overtly brilliant like to treat illness, rejecting piece - with the same per­ drugs) and homeopaths on the formers (HNH4051l. On the other, In this last, substances other side of the Second Con­ thought deadly are used in certo is a heavenly beautiful small doses to prevent illness fantasy-variations on the tradi­ - a bit of poison in your tional song "Early One Morn­ morning coffee keeps the doc­ ing," a sort of tone poem. tor away? It all sounds hope­ lessly loony, unless youstop to Concertos were a major part reflect that he was 91 when he of Scott's interest, that and died. chamber music. Besides the Scott came from a period two piano concertos, there arC' with countless hard-luck "hu­ concertos for \'iolin, cello. man-interest" characters, oboe, harpsichord and one for many of them eccentric: Look two violins. at Havergal Brain, a compos£>r There are sonatas, triDs, who "found my muse" at age anything in Wagner!) But those phy. If the Talmud Is correct, quartets, and quintets galore, 71 in 1948, then went on to are other stores. and God's reason for creating three symphonies lthe fjrst he write 26 incredibly tedious and man was because He "enjoys destroyed; tbe second he re­ heavily scored symphonies plus The big difference is that good stories," Scott certainly made under the title "Three four operas by age 90. (f-I£> Scott was an original, artistic earned his creation. Symphonic Dances"), a number wrote 32 symphoni£>s in all.) composer who wrote wonder­ fully effective music. One can All of which is not to of chQraI-orehestral works and Then there is Gabriel Wa\,­ suggest that Scott was another not credit Brain or Wayditch literally countless songs and ditch, a Hungarian baron, who Bad} or Verdi. It is just that he with as much, at least, not on solo piano pieces. (pianist Mar­ lived a long, penniless life in a deserves some sort of slice of the basis of what I have thus far tha Anne Verbit has recorded a New York slum, turning out 14 the concert repertory, for the heard from either pen. fine sample of the solo music, tedious, heavily scored operas public's sake as much as his including the First Piano Sona­ in Hungarian. (His "Sahara" is Scott was an artist of merit, own. He was not Great Scott, ta, opus 66 on Genesis GS 1049 6~2 hours long,· longer· than as well as _a tinderoox biogra- just Cyril.

- 224 - AMICA BULLETIN INDEX Scott, Cyril 223 1978 Bos, V. Conrad 198 MONTHS BY PAGE NUMBER Blake, Eubie 183 Book Review-Piano Parts & Their Functions 165 Brailowsky, Alexander 107 Jan./Feb...... 1-23 July 111-128 March 24-47 Aug./Sept. 129-159 c April 48-72 October 160-177 CHAP"rERS May 73-86 November 178-201 Iowa 17, 66, 124, 173 Midwest 103, 172, 196 June 87-110 December 202-000 New England 175 New Jersey 66, 124, 156, 222 Northern California 10, 39, 62, 98, 153, 171, 193, 216 A Philadelphia 14, 41, 82, 122, 155, 218 Rocky Mountain 42, 106, 156, 221 Southern California 11, 153, 194, 217 AMICA INTERNATIONAL SOWNY 15, 64, 123 AMICA Financial Report 88, 162 Texas 12, 63, 100, 155, 172, 195, 217 AMICA Founding Member, Bill Knorp 178 Chasins, Abram 73 Bulletin Production 26 Cherkassky, Shura 68, 90 132 Dayton AMICA Convention COLLECTIONS 160-161 Dayton Board & Membership Meetings Eicher, Bill 30 Discover Dayton 1 Koenigsberg, Bill 163 Fund Raising at Cusick's 168 Reblitz, Art 33 Fund Raising at Lilien's 130 Smythe, Terry 204 Mail Board Meeting 1 Yeckley, Molly 78 Nominating Committee Report 73 Complete Studies for the Player Piano 189 Philadelphia Board Meeting 48, 87 The Contemporary Idiom in Modern Music 9 Player Piano Commemorative Stamp 74 President's Report 129 Proposed Computer Membership Listing 131 Winnipeg News 204 AMPICO D-G Ampico B with Capehart Switch 166 Ampico Price List 121 Dohnanyi, Ernst von 216 Art Case in New Jersey 203 DUO-ART The Automatic Ampico Stencil Machine 144 Art Case Photos 96 It Might As Well Be Spring 54 A 32-Volt Steck Duo-Art 186 Make Your Own Louis XV Ampico 119 Duo-Art on the High Seas 57 Notes on the Ampico B Amplifier 44 Duo-Art Restoration 70 Rebuilding Model B Ampico Valves 199 Foot-pumped Duo-Art 115 Recording Artists 207 How To Find A Steinway Duo-Art 78 Anderson, Merle 215 Setting Duo-Art Accordions 108 Armbruster, Robert 131 Touch Regulation in the Duo-Art 143 Automatic Ampico Stencil Machine 144 Eicher, Bill 30 Automatic Instruments at the NAMM Expo 149 Erlebach, Rudy 7 B H BIOGRAPHIES Bos, V. Conrad 198 Herbert, Victor 51 Brailowsky, Alexander 107 Hines, Earl 7 Cherkassky, Shura 68 HONORARY MEMBERS Erlebach, Rudy 7 Armbruster, Robert 131 Hines, Earl 7 Blake, Eubie 183 Liszt and Chopin 84 Chasins, Abram 73 Mintun, Peter 113 Cherkassky, Shura 68, 90 Morton, Jelly Roll 34 Lange, Henry 203 Navas, Rafael 68 Laffitte, Frank 73 Noble, Ray 111 Nyiregyhazi, Erwin 5, 50, 89 Pelletier, Wilfrid 19 Pelletier, Wilfrid 1, 19 Petri, Egon 43 Stewart, Reginald 110 Renard, Rosita 127 Zucca, Dr. Mana 162 Rubinstein, Beryl 175 I-L T-Z The Ilgenfritz Iceberg 92 Koenigsberg, Bill 163 TECHNICALITIES Laffitte, Frank 73, 88 The Dayton Techs 180 ./ Liszt and Chopin 84 Duo-Art Restoration 70 The Ludwig Player Action 80 Grand Action Questions (and answers) 127 Mills Violano Virtuoso Bow Motor 86 Minor Case Repairs 71 M-O Notes on the Ampico B Amplifier 44 The Player Piano 22 Mintun, Peter 113 Rebuilding Model B Ampico Valves 199 Morton, Jelley Roll 34 Repairing Mastertouch Piano Actions 157 Navas, Rafael 68 Scientific Pitch Raising 20 Noble Ray 111 Setting Accordions in Steinway & Weber Pianos 108 Nyiregyhazi, Erwin 5, 50, 89 Style M Tracker Bar Layout 39 Orchestral Music in the Home 35 The Use Of Animal Glue In Rebuilding 21 Organs, Residence Pipe 211 Violano Converter Quieting 176 Violano Tremolo Conversion 46 P-Q Violano, (humor) 116 Yeckley, Molly 78 Zucca, Dr. Mana 162 Pelletier, Wilfrid 1, 19 Petri, Egon 43, 75 PIANOS, GENERAL "Adapto" Player Action 91 NEW MEMBERS Angelus-detail drawings 151 Nealeen Roehm: 4314 Drexel Ave. Madison, WI 53716. Automatic Instruments at the NAMM Expo 149 Convertible Bedroom Piano 105 Grand Actions 127 Ray & Darlene Hopland: 6636 Lethbridge Cr. S.W., Calgary, The Ludwig Player Action 80 Alberta, Canada, T3E 6A4. 1922 Kranich & Back Welte Nickelodeon Manufacturer 55 Mignon and four pump player pianos. Referred by Terry Player Piano Comeback 182 Smythe. The Player Piano 22 The Ramona 6 Bob Richards: 5330 No. 7th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85014. ./ Simplex 60 Referred by William Matheson. Stahnke Reproducing Piano 165, 168 Style M Tracker Bar Layout 39 Symphonola 56 Kenneth & Helen Volk: 1 Lincoln Drive, Bow, NH 03301. 1925 Seeburg L; 1890 Wilcox & White 44-note plyr reed organ; 1900 Wilcox & White Angelus (with reeds) 65-note push-up R-S plyr; 1928 Cable Co. upr std; music boxes and organettes. Referred by Alan R. Pier. Reblitz, Art 33 Recording Artists 207 Reisenberg, Nadia 77, 115 Renard, Rosita 127 CLASSIFIED Residence Pipe Organs 211 ROLLS a MUSIC The Automatic Ampico Stencil Machine 144 Complete Studies for the Player Piano 189 "THROUGH YOU I LIVE FOREVER" -A nostalgic look at The Contemporary Idiom in Modern Music 9 reproducing player piano advertising from 1905 to 1929. 108 The Ilgenfritz Iceberg 92 pages - 8'/2 X 11 - 8 color plates - soft cover. Near full size Frank Laffitte on Duo-Art 188 reproductions of original advertisements from period magaZines. Liszt and Chopin 84 Major emphasis on Ampico, Duo-Art and Welte systems. Edited Piano Roll Review 10, 39, 54, 77, 92, 118, by Tom Beckett. $4.95 ppd. from: Beckett Productions, 6817 144, 166, 188, 214 Cliffbrook. Dallas. TX 75240. Texas residents add 25q: state tax. Ragtime Engineering Course 162 Reisenberg, Nadia 77, 115 FOR SALE: 5'1" Aeolian Duo-Art grand. Complete. original and Reminiscenses of Petri 75 beautiful. Tw040ned light/dark walnut finish with matching Style M Tracker Bar Layout 39 bench. $3200 or best offer. Roger Anderson. 11323 Fowler, Words to "Kitten on the Keys" 54 Omaha. NE 68164. (402) 493-1436. Rubinstein, Beryl 175 Scott, Cyril 223 FREE LISTS: All types rolls, cylinder records and machines. / Smythe, Terry 204 Discs. cobs, sheet music. catalogs & literature. Mechanical music Stewart, Reginald 110 and much more. Our 21st year ... VI & SI'S ANTIQUES, 8970 Main St.. Clarence, NY 14031. FOR SALE: Aeolian player organ style 1450 with 35 rolls. Manufactured date is 1896. All rebuilt, in good orioginal playing REPRODUCING PIANOS FOR SALE condition. Cabinet refinished. $1,400.00. Color picture and roll list $1.00 on request. Stan Holcomb, 512 Park Lane, Richardson, TX Probably the world's largest inventory. All are on our 75081. premises. All grands are on their legs and can be played.

)il WEBER DUO-ART. 5'8" inlaid art case, unrestored.••••••••••••• $6,250.00 VISITING SAN DIEGO? LET'S TALK/SELL OLD METAL RADIOS, .,. 2 WEBER DUO-ART, 5'8". walnut art case, unrestored 4,995.00 VICTROLA CREDENZAS, AMPICO ROLLS, PLAYER PIANOS. 3. WEBER DUO-ART, 6'1", some restoration, painted case.•••••••••• 3,495.00 4 HOBART M. CABLE Welte Mignon, 4'10", mahogany, ARNIE THORSON, 11106 POLARIS DR., SAN DIEGO, CA 92126. straight case, unrestored..•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1,295.00 5. WEBER DUO-ART, 5'8", very late piano, tubing does not go through the keys, wide stance legs, unrestored.•••••••••••••• 4,995.00 FOR SALE: Parts for Ampico, Duo-Art, Welte, Recordo 6. WELTE Original, 5'3", 3 legged with drawer, slight Pratt-Read, Aeolian, Baldwin, Simplex, Beckwith, Standard, ornate case in mahogany. ••.•.•••••••••••••••••••••••••• •• 1,495.00 Schultz, Price-Teeple. 1917 Stroud Duo-Art baby grand single leg 7. MEHLlN & SONS RECORDO, 4'9", shaded walnut case type, as is except for new tubing and pneumatic covering. Price made in 1934, some tubing replaced but otherwise unrestored. ••••• 1,495.00 8. WEBER DUO-ART, 5'8", average unrestored, plain case $1950. Send needs with self addressed card or letter. R. mahogany, cracked key slip cover board. • ••••••••••••.••••••• 2,700.00 Dahlberg, 12613 Chanler Lane, Bowie, MD 20715. Phone: AC 9. KNABE AMPICO, 5'3", unrestored, medium brown mahogany case.•• 2,595.00 301-262-1664. 10. WURLITZER RECORDO, 4'10", mahogany art case with nire legs, unrestored, matching bench. ••••••••••••••••••••••• 1,995.00 11. CHICKERING AMPICO, 5'4", completeiy restored, fruitwood finish.•• 6,995.00 ART CASE AMPICO: Must sell either 1926 Fischer 5'4" Spanish 12. WEBER DUO-ART, 5'8", completely restored, with bench (page 278 Encyclopedia). Nice original finish, perfect ivories, and roll cabinet, fruitwood finish 7,495.00 matching bench; OR 1922 KNABE 5'8" Louis XV. Fischer has 13. STEINWAY DUO-ART, 6'1", XR, piano refinished in light brown mahogany, Duo-Art, unrestored.••••••••.••••••••••••••• 6,995.00 both loud and soft pedal compensators, outstanding tone for a V 14. FISCHER AMPICO, 5'3", Ampico mechanism missing, Louis 5'4", and near mint case. KNABE is pure "A" with upside down XVI hand-painted art case, matching bench, primary color valves with METAL covers. Mahogany, three-legs, rich tone. is avocado.••.•••••••••••••••••••.•.•••••••••••.••••••• 2,995.00 Restoration in progress. May be customized to your taste. Details 15. MASON & HAMLIN AMPICO "A", 5'8" Florentine art case, matching bench, extremely clean, unrestored.•••••••••••.••••• 12,500.00 available by phone or mail from Chicago's most dedicated 16. WEBER DUO-ART, 5'8", very clean, above average Ampico/Duo-Art restoration specialist. Robert W. Taylor (312) unrestored, plain mahogany case .••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 3,750.00 255-9595. 412 North Evergreen, Arlington Heights, IL 60004. 17 FISCHER AMPICO, 5'3", some missing veneer, minor restoration started.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1,995.00 18 MARSHALL & WENDELL AMPICO "B", 5'2", some restoration WANTED: 46-note music rolls for Aeolian reproducing pump done, playing condition, some missing veneer pieces on legs, with bench .••.••••••••••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••• 7,600.00 organ. Ralph E. Riggs, 1512 Northridge Dr., Carrollton, TX 75006. 19. MATHUSHEK WELTE MIGNON, 5'3", very clean, unrestored.••••••• 1,995.00 (214) 242-8091. . 20 FRANKLIN AMPICO "A", 5'0", very nice unrestored piano.•••••••• 1,795.00 21. WEBER DUO-ART, 6' 1", extremely clean, unrestored, late Duo-Art, most controls in spoolbox, piano has seen very little use. . •••••••• 3,995.00 FOR SALE: Red Welte Ibach 6'4" grand. Ebony finish original 22. FEURICH-PHILIPPS DUCA, 7'0", an extremely rare reprodUCing sys­ good. With separate original vacuum box. Piano serial #88665 tem in a very fine Leipzig piano with 80 rolls, ebony finish, with approximately 200 Red Welte rolls including 3 test rolls. unrestored but playing.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••.•••••• 18,500.00 Needs minor adjustment. $9,000.00. George E. Missbach Sr., 23. WEBER DUO-ART, upright, English piano built for the Aeolian Co., Paris. All control directions in French. Nice unrestored condition 3715 Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30327. Day telephone 404­ with minor veneer damage..•.••••••••••.•••••••••••••••••• 1,795.00 237-1694. Nite telephone 404-237-3745 or Mauldin Piano 24. J. H. LEE, English 65-note upright piano, with storage bench, Company, Atlanta GA, 404-688-8080. rosewood case, nice..••.••••••••••••.••••••••.••••••••••• 1,195.00 25. KOHLER & CAMPBELL RECORDO - Tom Thumb 61-note upright. Chinese art case with matching bench, very rare.•••.••••••••••• 2,495.00 1930 MASON & RISCH 6'1" Duo-Art reproducing grand, excellent 26. PLEYELLE, 7'0", straight grand, rosewood case, rare in this country.• 2,495.00 quality instrument, superbly restored throughout, nothing left 27. FISCHER AMPICO, upright, completely restored and refinished, mahogany case and new plastic keys.•.••.•.••••••••.•••••••• 2,995.00 undone; mottled African mahogany case with unusual single leg 28. WURLITZER LX ORCHESTRION, much work done, some work style. Priced at $10,500 (US.). Offers & trades involVing needed, playing quite well, with wonder light. •••••••••.•••.• • 21,500.00 unrestored instruments will be considered. For photos, full 29. STROUD DUO-ART, 1928 upright, some restoration done, description & cassette recording, contact: Terry Smythe, 71 De playing nicely 2,195.00 30. STEINWAY RED WELTE VERTIGRAND, 1908, a rare and beautiful Bourmont Bay, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R2J 1K2. (204) 256­ piano in a birdseye maple case. Completely rebuilt, in need of 2134. minor adjustment.••••••••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 6,995.00 31. SEEBURG 51-note non-mechanical cabinet piano, with keyboard, matching bench, one-of-a-kind. A must for the serious WANTED FOR MY SEEBURG H: an original set of harmonic flute Seeburg collector. •.••.•.•.•••••••••••••••.••.••••••••. •• 1,495.00 pipes, also Seeburg motor by Holtzer-Cabot Electric Co. type HS­ 32. CREMONA STYLE 3 NICKELODEON, unrestored, perfect art glass.•• 4,25000 14. Jerry Cohen, 11756 Canton Place, Studio City, CA 91604. 33. MARSHALL & WENDELL UPRIGHT AMPICO, lovely refinished walnut case, reproducer has had some restoration. Not playing.••••• 1,750.00 (213) 877-7378. 34. CAPITAL NICKELODEON with violin pipes, unrestored.••••••••••• 5,995.00 35. H. C. BAY RECORDO, 5'3", evidence of some prior rebuilding, piano painted white with matching bench .••••••.••••••••.••••••.••••• 89500 FOR SALE: Duo-Art classical numerical catalog, paperbound: 36. WEBER DUO-ART, 5'8", unique burl oak gothic case, ten legs, $12.50. Original 1927 Duo-Art dance music catalog, paper, $10. restored six years ago, playing well. •.•.••.•.•.•.••••••.•••• 17,500.00 1927 Duo-Art catalog, 480 pp. slight water damage inside, cover OTHERS ARRIVE DAILY LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS. perfect: $65. Duo-Art April, 1933 bulletin $7.50. AMICA Bulletins 1969-75, '77 to date: $85. Steinway Duo-Art. Faner, 555 Winter Call or write for more information Polaroid photographs $1.00, refundable. N.E., Salem Oregon. Repair or restoration can be arranged. We handle shipping. Other mechanical music instruments for sale and wanted. Free catalogs.

FOR SALE: (1) Wurlitzer 105 organ, playing needs a little work, asking $9,500. (2) Carl Frei street organ on cart, 132 pipes MECHANICAL MUSIC CENTER, INC. playing, caliola rolls, asking $8,500. (3) Larger European organ 25 Kings Highway North converted to play 125 rolls, asking $7,000. (4) 12 arcade machines $1,200 or best offer. Doyle H. Lane, Antique Music and Mailing Address: Box 88, Darien CT 06820. Phone: 203-655-9510 Wheels, Hillsborough, NC 27278. (919) 732-7136. Our showroom is open 9:30 to 4:30 daily except Sunday. HUNDREDS of music boxes, barrel organs, nickelodeons, reproducing pianos and other instruments on display in our showroom. Free catalogs. Rolls, books. records, repairs. 45 mins. from midtown New York. MECHANICAL MUSIC CENTER, Box 88, YOU AIN'T HEARD Darien. CT 06820. (203) 655-9510. NOTHIN' YET! AUCTION: AMPICO. DUO-ART. WELTE & 88 NOTE ROLLS. . .. until you've heard the amazing true to life, new SHEET MUSIC 45 & 78 RPM RECORDS. WRITE FOR LIST. I. L. 88-note music rolls from Play-Rite. Thanks to our CORDELL. 2240 LORAIN ROAD. SAN MARINO. CA 91108 exclusive digital technology, you'll hear aJJ the styling and embellishments of virtuosos playing America's FOR SALE: Vacuum guages, Marshalltown Brand, 2'h" face, 0 to favorite tunes, from Stephen Foster to "Star Wars." 30 inch H20 with snubbing orifice and 5/32" nipple. New, calibrated, guaranteed. $10.00 postpaid in U.S.: W. E. Flynt, 1722 All are brand new recordings by top artists, includ­ Iroquois Drive, Garland. TX 75043. ing piano immortals Johnny Guarnieri, Rod Miller, Bud Noble, Ian Whitcomb, and others. You'll swear MUSIC BOXES! Player Pianos! Nickelodeons! Phonographs! these great pianists are playing a private concert right World's largest selection. Ship anywhere. Catalog $3. Next 6 in your living room! issues $15. Also have clocks, slot machines, cash registers. mechanical antiques. Visit us Wed. thru Sat. AMERICAN A vailable only through dealers INTERNATIONAL GALLERIES: 1802-H Kettering, Irvine, CA Send for a FREE catalog. Choose your favorites and bring 92714. Telephone (714) 754-1777. the catalog to your local dealer. If he doesn't have the rolls you want in stock. he can order them for you.

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FOR SALE: Mandolin attachments - fit all upright pianos. Easy installation. Tabs pre-cut with metal clips already attached. Kit includes necessary hardware. $16 postpaid in U.S. Quantity discount. W. F. Knapp, 2819 53rd St. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33710.

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Extremely unusual restored Welte Licensee in Cable Nelson art case studio Newton player (standard -pneumatic) in with original matching bench. Case is light mahoghany. Refinished, replated, crotch walnut with inlays of burl maple in electrified, rebuilt. $3,000.00 three front panels. $5,000.00 united moving & storage inc

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