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Rolls and Music The AMICA News Bulletin of the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors'Association AMICA International AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION AMICA MEMBERSHIP RATES: NEWS BULLETIN Continuing Members: $20 Annual Dues Overseas Members: $26 Dues PUBLISHER New Members, add $5 processing fee Dorothy Bromage (Write to Membership Secretary, P.O. Box 387 see address below) La Habra, CA 90631 USA Change of Address: If you move, send the new address and phone number to the Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Membership Secretary, Bobby Clark. Association, a non-profit club devoted to the restoration, distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments using INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS perforated paper music rolls. AMICA was founded in San Francisco in 1963. PRESIDENT Terry Smythe (204) 452-2180 Contributions: All subjects of interest to readers of the 547 Waterloo St., Winnipeg, Manitoba Bulletin are encouraged and invited by the publisher. All Canada R3N 012 articles must be received by the 10th of the preceding PAST PRESIDENT Robert M. Taylor month. Every attempt will be made to publish all articles of (215) 735-2662 general interest to AMICA members at the earliest possible 1326 Spruce St. #3004, Phildelphia, PA 19107 time and at the discretion of the publisher. VICE PRESIDENT Molly Yeckley (419) 684-5742 Original Bulletin articles, or material for reprint that is of 612 Main St., Castalia, OH 44824 significant historical quality and interest, are encouraged and will be rewarded in the form of AMICA membership SECRETARY Richard Reutlinger (415) 346-8669 dues discounts. (Chapter reports and Forum inquiries are 824 Grove St., San Francisco, CA 94117 excluded.) PUBLISHER Dorothy Bromage (213) 697-1545 ADVERTISING P.O. Box 387, La Habra, CA 90631 Classified: 10¢ per word, $1.50 minimum. MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Bobby Clark • All copy must reach the publisher by the 10th of the (New memberships and mailing problems) (803) 738-0567 preceding month. Payment must accompany order. ..... Make checks payable to: AMICA INTERNATIONAL. P.O. Box 172, Columbia, SC 29202 TREASURER Mike & Liz Barnhart • Checks or money orders from advertisers in foreign (513) 254-5580 countries must be drawn on a U.S. bank. 919 Lantern Glow Trail, Dayton, OH 45431 Display advertising BOARD REPRESENTATIVES Full page 7Y2" x10" $80.00 Founding Chapter: Howie Koff Half page 7%" x43Jo" 40.00 Southern California: Dick Rigg Quarter page 3'1u" X 43,4 " 20.00 Texas: Haden Vandiver Midwest: Vincent Ricca • Each photograph or half-tone $5.00 Philadelphia Area: Len Wert • We recommend display advertisers supply camera­ SOWNY: Jeff Depg ready copy. Copy that is oversized or undersized Rocky Mountain: ick Kroeckel New Jersey: William Baab will be changed to correct size at your cost. 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If not, hurry them along to James Doheny, 3625 McCormick Avenue, Brook­ field, n 60513. Have you made your Mart reservation for a full table [$20) or half table ($10) or common table ($1 per item)? Send these to Mike Schwimmer, 241 Harbor, Glencoe, 11 60022. ____ Have you made your hotel reservation? There's still time to reserve a single ($35 per night) or double ($42 per night) with the Bis­ marck Hotel, Randolph at LaSalle, Chicago, 1160601. Have you packed your bags? No? Well get started! SEE YOU AT THE CONVENTION! ,< A ' • ',....".",."..,. ., ".. ~~~'''.''''~''~''.:.01''~ ..;: ",,~; .:~;•.....: ;•.; .;."•...,..".~ •.. " w".,.".."..".,••••~ " ••••••••.". " .",..",.. CHAPTER OFFICERS AMICA International News Bulletin FOUNDING CHAPTER NEW JERSEY Volume 20 Number 5 June 1983 Pres: Phil McCoy Pres: Edward Freyer Vice Pres: Isadora Koff Vice Pres: Oliver Vitakis CONTENTS Treas: Bob Wilcox Sec: Marge Vitakis Sec/Reporter: Jack and Dianne Edwards Treas: Lenny Finkel AMICA International 109 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Reporter: R. F. Groman People 112 Pres: Roy Shelso IOWA Rolls and Music 116 Vice Pres: Warren and Rosemary Deasy Pres: John Parker Sec: Holly and Peggy Hollingsworth Vice Pres: Bob Shimp Instruments 119 Treas: les Cordell SecfTreas: Mary Lou Shimp Technicalities 121 Reporter: Bill Toeppe Reporter: Jack Niewoehner News from the Chapters 124 TEXAS BOSTON AREA The Forum . 130 Pres: Dick Barnes Pres: Barry Kasindorf Vice Pres: Bob Smith Vice Pres: Charles Hazard SecfTreas: Betty Plonien Sec: Bill Koenigsberg Reporter: Tom Beckett Treas: Philip Konop The Cover: Lee Valencia contributed this portrait of MIDWEST Reporter: Donald Brown Rudy Erlebach. It was a full-page illustration in the Pres: Edwin Ward NORTHERN LIGHTS 1920 Mel-O-Dee catalog. See article by Lee in this Vice Pres: Ruth Owen Pres: Steve Leppa Sec: Lawrence and Margaret Frazer Vice Pres: Terry Goepel issue. Treas: Alvin Wulfekuhl Sec: Barbara Leppa Reporter: Sue Ricca Treas: Robert & Katheryn Dumas PHILADELPHIA AREA SIERRA-NEVADA 1983 Convention Pres: Bob Rosencrans Pres: Ken Winters Chicago Vice Pres: Barbara McCartney Vice Pres: Sonja Lemon •• •• Sec: Frank Basil SecfTreas: Audrey Winters July 14-17 Treas: Mac Taylor Reporter: Mel and Karen Locher Reporter: Bill Pilgermayer CHICAGO AREA SOWNY (SOUTHERN ONTARIO, Pres: Jim Edwards WESTERN NY) Vice Pres: Carol Dayton and Mabel Zivin AFFILIATED SOCIETIES Pres: Jim Brewer Sec: Bob and Gloria Taylor The Player Piano Group (England) Vice Pres: Jan Drewniak Treas: Bill and Dee Kavouras The North West Player Piano Sec: Alice Guhlow Reporter: Wynette Edwards Association (England) Treas: Jim and Chris Barley HEART OF AMERICA Netherlands Mechanical Organ Reporter: Fred Buchwald Pres: Ron Connor Society - KDV Australian Collectors of Mechanical ROCKY MOUNTAIN Vice Pres: Tom Hellstein Musical Instruments Pres: Jere De Backer Sec: Leonard Railsback Dutch Pianola Association Vice Pres: Bill Arthur Treas: Margaret Taylor Society of Friends of Mechanical Sec: Rae Burdette Reporter: Craig Brougher Musical Instruments (Germany) Treas: Art Tarr Reporter: Deane and Patty Fehrman <> 109 <> Conventionews You've read all about convention evening happen­ ings in past AMICA bulletins - the Thursday night Red Rose Ragtime Band, the Friday night 1920's Monster DeCap Dance and the Saturday night extravaganza, "Rachmaninoff Plays Chicago" concert featuring the American Chamber Symphony with the Ganzamania following. Well, that's not all! We've left the home collections for you to discover on your own. We're touring both the Chicago Theater and the Civic Opera House to hear the organs installed there. The Mart is open Saturday after­ noon for wheeling and dealing. And we have a variety of workshops scheduled all day Friday. Here are some of these. ED LISAUSKAS will host the workshop on restring­ ing pianos. Ed has had twenty years experience working in Chicago with all the major piano dealers. He specializes in piano restringing and structural and cos­ metic re building. DR. RON BOPP's topic is the Peerless Piano Player Company. He has always presented most entertaining slide programs on various interesting subjects in the coin piano field. BOB TAYLOR will help with the problems with Steinway cross valves. Bob is an airline pilot based in Chicago with an avocation in rebuilding reproducing pianos. TIM TRAEGER is Chicago Chapter's walking encyclopedia on Wurlitzer. He will conduct a workshop ,- on the Wurlitzer Band Organ and anything else you always wanted to know about the company. These workshops round out the planned activities for the 1983 AMICA convention July 14-17. We're look­ ing forward to seeing you then. The Water Tower .- <> 110 <> 1983 CHICAGO CONVENTION SCHEDULE - TENTATIVE **BISMARCK HOTEL** Wednesday Board of Directors Meeting July 13 Thursday Board Meeting Continued July 14 Registration, Hotel Lobby Tours (Wicker Park, Outdoor Art, and Chicago Architecture) and Open Homes Live Hot Jazz Concert and Program. Piano Salon Opens/Demonstrations/Reception Friday Breakfast July 15 Tour #1 Zivin Collection Group # 1 Workshops Tour #2 Zivin Collection Group #2 Workshops Tour #3 Zivin Collection Group #3 Workshops Tour #4 Zivin Collection
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