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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN THEATRE ORGAN SOCIETY NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2012 Happy Holidays! ATOS NovDec 54-6 E.indd 1 10/18/12 2:27 PM - HERE The Atlanta Chapter Invites You to WITH THE WIND “here with the wind 2013” Featuring… the tlanta Fo ller Richard Hills Clark Wilson Larry-Douglas Embury Dave Wickerham Overture in Chattanooga featuring… Tony Fenelon the ivoli heatre urliter: the iringham labama heatre Jonas Nordwall Wurliter Simon Gledhill viit an inner at orl-famou Mark Herman Rock City on Lookout Mountain the Stehenon S 4/16 Grane age the eorial uitorium 1 utin Stone ountain Walt Strony Dwight Thomas concluding with a the arietta Stran heatre llen G-IV: Finale to South Georgia featuring…. Lance Luce the laner heatre ller in eriu: Ron Rhode Stay at the luxurious inner uffet the Gran heatre arton II in Fitgeral JW MARRIOTT. Jelani Eddington HOTELS & RESORTS in Buckhead Overture July 1 Convention July 2-5 Finale July 6 Registration Details Coming Soon! Visit us at http://atosatlanta.org/convention THEATRE ORGAN NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2012 Volume 54 | Number 6 FEATURES ATOS Fundraising— 12 Right on Target What Should Chapters 16 Do About Insurance? An Interview With the 18 Three Benjamins Bucky’s Birthday 20 Bash Theatre Organ Music on 24 Transcription Discs The MacNeur Studio 30 Project Update A Tale of 36 Two Consoles Touring Oz 38 40 Years Later Radio City Music Hall 36 Gala: Part Three DEPARTMENTS 3 Vox Humana 4 President’s Message 5 Letters Top: Jonas Norwall tours Australia (Photo by Bill Schumacher) 6 Directors’ Corner Bottom: Jelani Eddington just one of many artists at Bucky’s Birthday Bash (Photo by Elbert Fields) 8 News & Notes On the Cover: Ruby, Ian McLean’s new custom console (Photo by Ian McLean) 48 Vox Pops 50 Chapter News THEATRE ORGAN (ISSN 0040-5531) is published bimonthly by the American Theatre Organ 57 Around the Circuit Society, Inc., 7800 Laguna Vega Drive, Elk Grove, California 95758. 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DIRECTORS (CURRENT TERM) Immediate Past Chairman ATOS MISSION STATEMENT—To preserve, protect, COL Mike Hartley (2013) ([email protected]) promote, and present a truly American musical 386-445-7562 invention, the theatre pipe organ and its musical art Bob Dilworth ([email protected]) (2015) form, worldwide; 302-995-2603 To ensure that the few remaining instruments are Jelani Eddington ([email protected]) (2015) played wherever possible to provide entertainment 262-639-8788 to the public as a solo instrument or part of an ensemble, and to accompany silent films; Larry Fenner ([email protected]) (2013) 717-274-2254 To encourage industry-acceptance restoration, John Ledwon ([email protected]) (2014) maintenance methods and techniques to ensure performance ability for future generations; and 702-767-8772 Allen Miller ([email protected]) (2013) To assist local chapters and our members by 860-402-4686 providing coordinated support in education, concert promotion and marketing to further our mission. Jack Moelmann ([email protected]) (2015) 618-632-8455 Tim Needler ([email protected]) (2013) 317-255-8056 Don Phipps ([email protected]) (2014) 508-758-3723 Bucky Reddish ([email protected]) (2014) 770-948-8424 2 THEATRE ORGAN D D What do you know—another year has come and gone. It seems the older we get, the faster the years go by. Of course, working a couple of issues have you heard the phrase “hindsight is Yes, absolutely, the personal touch ahead on THEATRE ORGAN doesn’t 20/20?” works. help. It seems to speed up the apparent Perhaps we could learn from our Fundraising works pretty much the passage of time. As this is being written mistakes before we actually make them. same. Folks are more inclined to give (first week in October), we’re working in We could find which fundraising efforts when they’re asked personally by someone 2013. bore the most fruit; we could tell which of they know, than if they just receive a flyer The time-travel aspects of Dr. Who our initiatives to reverse the membership in the mail. seem more logical all the time. decline worked best, come back to the Try it, and remember Bob Dilworth’s Dr. Who? present, and scratch those that didn’t challenge from the last issue. If it will Yes. measure up, and focus instead on those work in Delaware, it will work wherever No. Dr. WHO? that worked best. you live. Yes. We only know him as “The But, alas, we have no TARDIS. Keep in touch. Doctor.” And, we’re not likely to have one —Mike Bryant For those who may have been living in a anytime soon. Drat. —Don Feely cave since the ’60s, we’re talking about Dr. But we do have quite a bit of collective Who, the science-fiction television series wisdom, and at the top of that heap is on BBC. The Doctor is a Time Lord from the decidedly low-tech observation that the planet Gallifrey, who travels through the personal touch works. Not only are time and space in a machine called a we—individually—ambassadors (either On page 9, you’ll see a brief announce- TARDIS, which outwardly appears to be a good or bad, depending on our conduct) ment about the passing of our friend 1960s-vintage London police box. But it’s for ATOS, we are, collectively, probably Chris Gorsuch. We received notification larger on the inside than on the outside, the best potential source of new members just hours before we sent this issue to and…oh, never mind.