DOCSLIB.ORG

NEWS BULLETIN of the AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
NEWS BULLETIN of the AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION NEWS BULLETIN of the AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION VOLUME 14 DECEMBER 1977 NUMBER 10 OFFICERS INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS CHAPTER OFFICERS PRESIDENT NO. CALIFORNIA Bob Rosencrans Pres.: Howard Koff 36 Hampden Rd. Vice Pres.: Phil McCoy Upper Darby, PA 19082 Sec.: Dick Reutlinger Treas.: Bill Wherry VICE PRESIDENT Reporter: Stuart Hunter Richard Drewniak 191 Capen Blvd. SO. CALIFORNIA Amherst, NY 14226 Pres.: Prentiss Knowlton Vice Pres.: Elliott N. Lacy SECRETARY Sec.: Evelyn Meeder Isadora Koff Treas.: Lewis Troffer 2141 Deodara Dr. Reporter: Bill Toeppe AMICA MEMBERSHIP RATES: Los Altos, CA 94022 TEXAS Continuing Members: $15 Dues BULLETIN Pres.: Tony Palmer Tom Beckett Vice Pres.: James Guinn New Members, add $5 processing fee 6817 Cliffbrook Sec/Treas.: Haden Vandiver Lapsed Members, add$3 processing fee Dallas, TX 75240 Reporter: Dick Barnes MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY MIDWEST (New memberships and Pres.: Milton Cooperman mailing problems) Vice Pres.: Jim Prendergast Anita Nickels Johnson Sec.: Jim Weisenborne P. O. Box 666 Treas.: ,Alvin Wulfekuhl THE AMICA NEWS BULLETIN Grand June tion, CO 81501 Reporter: Molly Yeckley TREASURER Jack & Mary Riffle PHILADELPHIA AREA Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' 5050 Eastside Calpella Rd. Pres: Donald Wood Association. a non-profit club devoted to the restoration. distribu· Ukiah, CA 95482 Vice Pres.: Larry Cornell tion and enjoyment of musical instruments using perforated paper Sec.: Barbara Macartney music rolls. BOARD REPRESENTATIVES Treas.: Doris Berry N. Cal: Frank Loob Reporter: Dick Merrill Contributions; All subjects of interest to readers of the bulletin S. Cal: Dick Rigg are encouraged and invited by the publisher. All articles must be Texas: Steve Chapman SOWNY (So. Ontario. West NY) received by the 10th of the preceding month. Every attempt will be Phil.: Larry Cornell Pres.: Stan Aldridge made to publish all articles of general interest to AMICA members Midwest: Bill Eicher Vice Pres.: Chuck Hannen 41 at the earliest possible time and at the discretion of the pUblisher. SOWNY: Dave Gaudieri Sec.: Janet Drewniak ,. ADVERTISING Rky. Mt.: Toni Hart Treas.: Tom Zorn Line ad rate: 8C1 per word. $1.20 minimum. New Jer.: Dan Schacher Reporter: Jim Brewer Page rate: $12.50 per quarter page or multiple thereof. COMMITTEES ROCKY MOUNTAIN Ad copy will be typeset (at additional cost) only if requested. Technical Pres.: Robert Moore Each photograph or half-tone. $5.00 Mel Luchetti Sec.: Sharon Paetzold Camera-ready copy that is oversized or undersized will be 3449 Mauricia Ave. Treas.: Carl Paetzold changed to correct size at your cost. Santa Clara, CA 95051 Reporter: James Bratton Camera-ready copy must reach the publisher by the 10th of the preceeding month. Honorary Members NEW JERSEY Pres.: Peter W. Brown Cash must accompany order. Typesetting or si ze alteration Alf. E. Werolin Vice Pres.: Francis J. Mayer charges will be billed separately. Make checks payable to 2230 Oa~dale Rd. Sec.: Jeffrey Morgan AMICA INTERNATIONAL. Hillsborough, CA 94010 Treas.: Glenn W. Grabinsky All ads will appear on the last pages of the BULLETIN. at the Reporter: Betty Schacher discretion of the publisher. IOWA Publication of business advertising in no way implies AMICA's Pres.: Richard W. Parker endorsement of any commercial operation. However. AMICA re­ Vice Pres.: Dale Snyder serves the right to refuse any ad that is not in keeping with AMICA's Sec./Treas.: AI Johnson general standards or if complaints are received indicating that said business does not serve the best interests of the members of AMICA. according to its goals.and by·laws. AMICA Stationery. $3.20 (letter size). $1.75 AMICA ITEMS AMICA TECHNICALITIES BOOKS: Volume I (note size). including mailing charges. Fine (1969·1971). $5.50 postpaid; Volume II (1972· FOR SALE· 1974). $7,50 postpaid; or order both sets for quality stationery with ornate AMICA borders. AMICA BULLETINS. BOUND ISSUES: 1969. Each packet contains 25 letters and matching $12.50 postpaid. Reprints of interesting techni· $9; 1971. $15; 1972. $15; 1973. $15; 1974 calities articles which have appeared in the envelopes. Send orders to Robert Lemon. 4560 unbound sets. $15; 1974 bound sets. $18; AM ICA Bulletin. arranged and indexed into Green Tree Drive. Sacramento. CA 94823. 1975 bound. $18; 1976 bound. $18. PRICES appropriate categories. spiral bound to lie flat. INCLUDE POSTAGE AND HANDLING. Spiral Send orders to Howard Koff. 2141 Deodara "They All Laughed When I Sat Down At The bound to lie flat. Send to Mary Lilien. 4260 Drive. Los Altos. CA 94022. Piano, But When IT Began To Play ..." Olympiad Drive. Los Angeles. CA 90043. This sound and color super-8 movie. produced ROLL LEADERS: DUO·ART. Authentic. For by AM ICA members, is again available for loan order sheet. see the April. 1973 Bulletin. Nick to AMICA members and chapters. For more Jarrett. 3622 . 21 st Street. San Francisco, CA information write fa Howard Koff. 2141 94114. Deodara Drive. Los Altos. CA 94022. ~ A CHRISTMAS FANTASIE Once more the AMPICO wishes its friends and patrons a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This re­ cording is a direct expression of the spirit of the holiday season, and it can be used most effec­ tively by following the directions and text throughout. The words may all be spoken, but where indicated they can also be sung to the music of the recording. Toward the close an actual march or dance may be performed. Strains from Victor Herbert's "Toyland" usher us into that magic country, and the lullaby from God­ ard's "Jocelyn" puts the children to sleep in anticipation of Christmas Horning. "Holy Night" adds its familiar strains to the mood of peaceful calm. Santa Claus approaches to the jingling bells, and in dreams we hear the dancing doll and see the toys as though they were alive. The distant chiming of "Adeste Fideles" proclaims that it is Christmas Day, and as we all gather round the tree in the morning, the children join with the toys in a march of celebration. "London Bridge" and "Farmer in the Dell" supply the music for merry games, and fi­ nally as night approaches again, we say good-bye to Toyland to the soft strains of "Now the Day Is Over." Toyland - Ampico #5976 Contributed by Conant, Arranged and played by Adam Carroll Kavouras, and Willyard • I II J" 1.1" IIlw , I cl I ",' I I 'I I ........... COVER STORY In 1913 a special gift was prepared by a neighbor of a two year-old girl of a pioneer Dallas family. It was a large scrapbook of cut-outs from period magazines pasted up on hand lettered pages, bound with a cloth cover hand monogrammed and trimmed by Anne Harley for Hazael Williams. Of significant ',>,.' bearing on our cover story are the following items - Hazael carefully saved : .' the book (our Christmas scene cover is one of the cut-outs), and after Miss i Williams graduated from college, she married a young man by the name of i Thomas G. ~eckett, Jr. Merry Ohristmas and Happy New Year to all! Tom and Carole Beckett (III) - 234 - Jnfernafional Jlc1KJ8Jl FROM THE PUBLISHER HONORARY ~IEMBER INDALLAS This issue of THE AMICA closes out our publication Ruth Bingaman Smith, an Honorary Member of AMICA schedule for 1977. The first issue (out of a total International, spent the week of October 8th in set of ten issues) for 1978 will be the combined Dallas, Texas. The Treemont presented her in a January/February issue to be scheduled for delivery piano recital as a feature of their entertainment to you in early FebruayY. Advertisers please note program in the assembly hall on Tuesday, October there will be no iss~ in January and next deadline 11th where she played for some 300 residents of that is January 10. T~second issue to be skipped in establishment. This is the second concert she has 1978 will probably be the August issue. A convention given there and the Treemont has engaged her for special August/September issue will result. another appearance in the Spring of 1978. 1977 INDEX: At the back of this issue we have pre­ While in Dallas, she attended a meeting of the Texas pared a special treat. Instead of having to wait Chapter of AMICA at the home of Janet and Richard every three years for a comprehensive Bulletin index, Tonnesen in Richardson, Texas. we have compiled one for the 1977 year only and included it with the last issue of the year. This On Wednesday she was the guests of the Musical Arts took a bit more time which was added to the December at their musicale and luncheon while Charlie Johnson production schedule but we trust it will be worth the and Doyle Cassel honored her with a dinner party in extra delay. their home that night. On Ruth~s return to San Antonio she was accompanied by Mrs. Dunbar LaTaste Happy Holidays to all. TB of Dallas who will spend several weeks with her. 1978 RENEWAL DUES AUNIQUE LISTING By the time you receive this Bulletin you should Honorary Membership Chairman, Alf Werolin, has sent in have received in the mail, by first class postage, a clipping from the October 9, 1977 "California your renewal dues notice for 1978. Please renew living Magazine" (Sunday supplement to the San Fran­ promptlyl We are doing things a little differently cisco Chronicle) in which AMICA was listed amon-g--­ this year. Our new Directory will become available several other "pretty strange" and "weird" groups. in June of 1978 and in order to prepare for this we In particular, we are catagorized as an "Off-the- are asking you to fill in the special information wall Organization." renewal card.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Hupfeld Helios Orchestrion
    TheAMICA News Bulletin of the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association September/October, 1985 Volume 22 Number 7 AMlCAlnternational JVews Bulletin DOROTHY BROMAGE, PUBLISHER POB275 CCB (207) 767-4446 Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107 Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' CHAPTER OffICERS Association, a non-profit club devoted to the restoration, FOUNDING CHAPTER IOWA distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments using per­ Pres: phil McCoy Pres: George Apland forated paper music rolls, AMICA was founded in San Francisco Vice Pres: Isadora Koff Vice Pres: E.H. Breckenfelder in 1963. Treas: Bob Wilcox SeclTreas: Marjorie Apland Sec/Reporter: lack & Dianne Reporter: Jack Niewoehner Edwards SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BOSTON AREA 1986 CONVENTION Pres: Warren & Rosemary Pres: Judy Welsh Deasy Vice Pres: Michael Potash PHILADELPHIA, PENN. Vice Pres: Jerry Pell Sec: Bill Koenigsberg Sec: John Candido Treas: Philip Konop Treas: larry Norman Reporter: Donald Brown HOST: Philadelphia Area Chapter Reporter: Jerry Pell TEXAS NORTHERN LIGHTS Pres: Wade Newton Pres: Jerrilyn Boehland Vice Pres: lorane Smith Vice Pres: Tom Wordeman SeclTreas: Carole Beckett Sec: Tracy Tolzmann ADVERTISING Reporter: Janet Tonnesen Treas: Robert & Katheryn Classified: 10¢ per word, $1.50 minimum. Duma • All copy must reach the publisher by the 10th of the preceding Reporter: Ruby Ahneman month. Payment must accompany order. Make checks payable MIDWEST SIERRA-NEVADA Pres: Edwin Ward Pres: Bob Patton to: AMICA INTERNATIONAl.. Vice Pres: liz Barnhart Vice Pres: Vicki Mahr • Checks or money orders from advertisers in foreign countries Sec: lawrence & Margaret SeclTreas: Audrey Winters must be drawn on a U.S. bank. Frazer Reporter: Bob and Sonja leomon Treas: Alvin Wulfekuhl Display Advertising Reporter: Sue Ricca Full Page 7V2"x10" $100.00 PHILADELPHIA AREA CHICAGO AREA Half page 7V2"x43/4" SO.OO Pres: Bob Taylor Pres.
    [Show full text]
  • A Nickel for Music in the Early 1900'S
    A Nickel for Music in the Early 1900’s © 2015 Rick Crandall Evolution of the American Orchestrion Leading to the Coinola SO “Super Orchestrion” The Genesis of Mechanical Music The idea of automatic musical devices can be traced back many centuries. The use of pinned barrels to operate organ pipes and percussion mechanisms (such as striking bells in a clock) was perfected long before the invention of the piano. These devices were later extended to operate music boxes, using a set of tuned metal teeth plucked by a rotating pinned cylinder or a perforated metal disc. Then pneumatically- controlled machines programmed from a punched paper roll became a new technology platform that enabled a much broader range of instrumentation and expression. During the period 1910 to 1925 the sophistication of automatic music instruments ramped up dramatically proving the great scalability of pneumatic actions and the responsiveness of air pressure and vacuum. Usually the piano was at the core but on larger machines a dozen or more additional instruments were added and controlled from increasingly complicated music rolls. An early example is the organ. The power for the notes is provided by air from a bellows, and the player device only has to operate a valve to control the available air. Internal view of the Coinola SO “orchestrion,” the For motive most instrumented of all American-made machines. power the Photo from The Golden Age of Automatic Instruments early ©2001 Arthur A. Reblitz, used with permission. instruments were hand -cranked and the music “program” was usually a pinned barrel. The 'player' device became viable in the 1870s.
    [Show full text]
  • Bulletin Germany/Holland 2007 July 5Th Ð 20Th
    THE www.amica.org Volume 44, Number 2 AMICA March/April 2007 AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS’ ASSOCIATION BULLETIN GERMANY/HOLLAND 2007 JULY 5TH – 20TH Tour Historic Germany and Holland with your fellow AMICANs. Visit Munich with its clock tower, Hofbrau House and many interesting attractions. See world-class museums with wonderful collections of automatic musical instruments. Bus through scenic countryside, with quaint towns full of wonderfully painted buildings. Shop in wood carving centers. Tour King Ludwig’s Linderhof Castle. Visit organ factories and private collections. Stroll through the Historic walled city of Rothenburg. Cruise the Beautiful Rhein River, with castles lining the waterway. Listen to dance organs, pianos, Dutch Street Organs and more. Enjoy the pumper contest, with contestants using Conrad Adenauer’s grand piano. There’s so much more to see and do. Applications will be coming soon, and you need to register right away….remember, registration is limited. Questions? Call Frank at 818-884-6849 ISSN #1533-9726 THE AMICA BULLETIN AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors’ Association, a non-profit, tax exempt group devoted to the restoration, distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments using perforated paper music rolls and perforated music books. AMICA was founded in San Francisco, California in 1963. PROFESSOR MICHAEL A. KUKRAL, PUBLISHER, 216 MADISON BLVD., TERRE HAUTE, IN 47803-1912 -- Phone 812-238-9656, E-mail: [email protected] Visit the AMICA Web page at: http://www.amica.org Associate Editor: Mr. Larry Givens • Editor Emeritus: Robin Pratt VOLUME 44, Number 2 March/April 2007 AMICA BULLETIN FEATURES Display and Classified Ads Articles for Publication Visit to San Sylmar’s Auto/Musical Collection .
    [Show full text]
  • Mechanical Instruments and Phonography: the Recording Angel of Historiography”, Radical Musicology, No Prelo
    Silva, João, “Mechanical instruments and phonography: The Recording Angel of historiography”, Radical Musicology, no prelo. Mechanical instruments and phonography: The Recording Angel of historiography This article strives to examine the established historical narrative concerning music recording. For that purpose it will concentrate on the phonographic era of acoustic recording (from 1877 to the late 1920s), a period when several competing technologies for capturing and registering sound and music were being incorporated in everyday life. Moreover, it will analyse the significant chronological overlap of analogue and digital media and processes of recording, thus adding a layer of complexity to the current historical narratives regarding that activity. In order to address that set of events, this work will mainly recur to the work of both Walter Benjamin and Slavoj Žižek. Benjamin’s insight as an author that bore witness to and analysed the processes of commodification that were operating in the period in which this article concerns is essential in a discussion that focuses on aspects such as modernity, technology, and history. Furthermore, his work on history presents a space in which to address and critique the notion of historicism as an operation that attempts to impose a narrative continuity to the fragmentary categories of existence within modernity, a stance this article will develop when analysing the historiography of music and sound recording. The work of Žižek is especially insightful in tracing a distinction between historicism
    [Show full text]
  • PDF Download Player Piano Ebook, Epub
    PLAYER PIANO PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Kurt Vonnegut | 341 pages | 01 Mar 1999 | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc | 9780385333788 | English | New York, United States Player Pianos - Yamaha Pianos - Piano Distributors Piano New Used Not All Player Pianos are Alike. Talk to our friendly staff who have over Years of combined experience with Player Pianos. Make any piano you select a Self Playing Piano. A Used Player Piano, player system is inspected, tested and the pedals are adjusted. We offer the most current Player Pianos and Features available. Contact Us for a Shipping Quote. Amazing value! A classic Steinway with restoration work performed. Handsome figured mahogany Recently restored to wonderful playing condition. Rich American tone, classic traditional figured Excellent condition, privately owned. Remarkably bold and powerful tone for its size with State of A lovely late-model midsize Yamaha grand piano in stunning white! Beautiful bold tone. Shopping for a pink piano? A well-built Japan-made Yamaha player baby grand at an affordable price. Plays itself with real A handsome decorator instrument that plays itself! Gorgeous tone. A phenomenal performance instrument with a full, rich, and bold tone. Our most popular upright piano with a brand-new polished white finish! Reconditioned to like-new The world's most popular piano. Choose from our very large inventory - An extraordinary value! Heirloom Performance Economy. Preowned Reconditioned. A masterpiece of artistry and engineering in your home, Spirio enables you to enjoy performances captured by great pianists — played with such nuance, power and passion that they are utterly indistinguishable from a live performance. A revolutionary blend of artistry, craftsmanship, and technology, Spirio r provides powerful new tools of expression and new ways to access, share and experience performance.
    [Show full text]
  • A Brief History of Re-Performance
    A Brief History of Re-performance by Nicholas Patrick Seaver B.A. Literature Yale University, 2007 SUBMITTED TO THE PROGRAM IN COMPARATIVE MEDIA STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPARATIVE MEDIA STUDIES AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JUNE 2010 © 2010 Nicholas Patrick Seaver. All rights reserved. The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce and to distribute publicly paper and electronic copies of this thesis document in whole or in part in any medium now known or hereafter created. Signature of Author: ____________________________________________________________ Program in Comparative Media Studies 11 May 2010 Certified by: __________________________________________________________________ William Uricchio Professor of Comparative Media Studies Director, Comparative Media Studies Thesis Supervisor Accepted by: _________________________________________________________________ William Uricchio Professor of Comparative Media Studies Director, Comparative Media Studies A Brief History of Re-performance by Nicholas Patrick Seaver Submitted to the Program in Comparative Media Studies on May 11, 2010, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Comparative Media Studies Abstract Discussions of music reproduction technology have generally focused on what Jonathan Sterne calls “tympanic” reproduction: the recording and playback of sounds through microphones and speakers. While tympanic reproduction has been very successful, its success has limited the ways in which music reproduction is popularly imagined and discussed. This thesis explores the history of “re-performance,” an alternative mode of reproduction epitomized by the early twentieth-century player piano. It begins with a discussion of nineteenth-century piano recorders and the historical role of material representation in the production of music.
    [Show full text]
  • AMICA Bulletin
    The www.amica.org AMICA Bulletin Volume 48, Number 6 November/December 2011 Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors’ Association This ad prepared with the help of Rosanna Harris, with thanks ISSN #1533-9726 The AMICA BulleTIn AUToMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CoLLECToRS' ASSoCIATIoN Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors’ Asso- Visit the AMICA web site at: http://www.amica.org ciation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax exempt group devoted to the to enter the “Members-Only” portal, restoration, distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments Current User Name: AMICA using perforated paper music rolls and perforated music books. Current password: rewind (to end 2011) AMICA was founded in San Francisco, California in 1963. New password: treadle (from 1 Jan 2012) VoLUME 48, Number 5 November/December 2011 AMICA BULLETIN FEATURES DEADLINES Ads and articles must be received AMICA in England 2011 . by Shirley Nix . 300 on or before the 1st of these ODD AMICA in Pittsburgh 2012 . .by Tim Baxter . 303 months: Nickel Notes . by Matthew Jaro . 304 January July Mechanical Music Today . by Marc Sachnoff . 308 March September Visit to the Popper Showroom . by Q. David Bowers . 330 May November Duo-Art Organ Concertola . by Paul Morris . 333 Bulletins will ordinarily be mailed in Tribute to Larry Givens . .by 3 Friends . 348 the 1st week of the even months, for expected delivery mid-month. COLUMNS Terry Smythe 55 Rowand Avenue President’s Message. 296 Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3J2N6 Vice-President’s Message . 297 204-832-3982 (email preferred) Editorial Observations . 296 [email protected] Letters . 298 80 Years Young . .by Alan Turner .
    [Show full text]
  • Games, Ghosts, and Glamour
    Games, Ghosts, and Glamour: The Player Piano in Domestic America, 1890-1930 Devanney Haruta An honors thesis for the Brown University Music Department November 29, 2016 Primary Reader: Dana Gooley Secondary Readers: Anne Searcy, Joshua Tucker 1 PRELUDE Keyboards are all around us, on our cell phones and laptops, mediating our writing, our correspondence, our digital expression, and accompanying our communication with audible punctuations of sound. Alphanumeric keys read digital input and produce sound in digital and mechanical output. The player piano, a mechanical musical instrument from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, utilized a similar keyboard interface. With its humming pneumatics and predetermined sequence of musical pitches, the instrument can teach us about our modern interactions with technologies that produce sound both within and outside of our immediate control. How we interact with both modern digital and historic instrument technologies reveals the importance of physical objects in our lives, and can even teach us about our modes of interaction as well as about ourselves as humans. The player piano is an instrument that became commercially widespread across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The instrument walks a hazy boundary between interactive musical interface and independently controlled music player, simultaneously reinforcing and challenging the piano’s established identity in the American domestic space. The player piano is an intriguing historical object, but what is its relevance to contemporary musicology? Understanding the player piano’s identity as a musical interface, a body of control, and a cultural symbol sheds light on modern musicology, organology, and technology studies.
    [Show full text]
  • Prokofiev and the Player-Piano
    THE www.amica.org Volume 44, Number 3 AMICA June/July 2007 AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS’ ASSOCIATION BULLETIN ISSN #1533-9726 THE AMICA BULLETIN AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors’ Association, a non-profit, tax exempt group devoted to the restoration, distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments using perforated paper music rolls and perforated music books. AMICA was founded in San Francisco, California in 1963. PROFESSOR MICHAEL A. KUKRAL, PUBLISHER, 216 MADISON BLVD., TERRE HAUTE, IN 47803-1912 -- Phone 812-238-9656, E-mail: [email protected] Visit the AMICA Web page at: http://www.amica.org Associate Editor: Mr. Larry Givens • Editor Emeritus: Robin Pratt VOLUME 44, Number 3 June/July 2007 AMICA BULLETIN FEATURES Display and Classified Ads Are “The Piano Roll Blues” Over . .Larry Givens . .113 Articles for Publication Letters to the Publisher Steinway D-217715: A Tale of a Duo-Art . .Tockhwock . .115 Chapter News Humidify, Humidify, Humidify . .Don Barton . .127 UPCOMING PUBLICATION Noteable Ampico Owner . .Peter Phillips . .128 DEADLINES Prokefiev and the Player Piano . .Rex Lawson . The ads and articles must be received 129 by the Publisher on the 1st of the The Standard Surface Control . .Curt Clifford . .135 Odd number months: January July Boyhood Memories of Montana . .Terry A. Goepel . .143 March September AMICA Technicalities . .Terry Smythe . .144 May November AMICA Website . .Karl Ellison . Bulletins will be mailed on the 2nd week 145 of the even months. Thoughts on Arranged vs. Hand Played . .Jeffrey Morgan . 146 Dr. Michael A. Kukral, Publisher Professional Course in Construction . .Leonardo Perretti .
    [Show full text]
  • Theamica News Bulletin of the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association
    TheAMICA News Bulletin of the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association October 1980 .IT1 lh1IIIlllmnnmnnmnn_IffilIIIIIIIl[lID]iIlIIIImmIIIIIIlV[[[om,ummmem1lIll7mammIIlIIIllIIIIImNmulIIlm.bemron8mmlIIIIIllIIIIIlImIIlmIlllDIDIIlDIIIImmlllDJDJDDJllDlDlDllli AMICA MEMBERSHIP RATES: Continuing Members: $15 Annual Dues New Members, add $5 processing fee INTERNATIONAL CHAPTER OFFICERS OFFICERS THE AMICA NEWS BULLETIN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PRESIDENT Pres.: Phil McCoy Robert M. Taylor Vice Pres.: Isadora Koff 1326 Spruce St. #3004 Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Treas.: Bob Wilcox Philadelphia, PA 19107 Association, a non-profit club devoted to the restoration, Sec./Reporter: Jack & distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments using Dianne Edwards VICE PRESIDENT perforated paper music rolls. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA " , Terry Smythe 71 Bourmont Bay Pres.: Francis Cherney Winnepeg, Manitoba Vice Pres.: Mary Lilien Canada R2J 1K2 DOROTHY BROMAGE, Publisher Sec.: Evelyn Meeder Treas.: Roy Shelso P.O. Box 387 SECRETARY Reporter: Bill Toeppe Jim Weisen borne La Habra, CA 90631 73 Nevada St. 213/697-1545 TEXAS Rochester, MI 48063 Pres.: Jim Phillips Vice Pres.: Merrill Baltzley PUBLISHER Sec./Treas.: Janet Tonnesen Dorothy Bromage Contributions: All subjects of interest to readers of the Reporter: James Kelsey P.O. Box 387 Bulletin are encouraged and invited by the publisher. All La Habra, CA 90631 articles must be received by the 10th of the preceding MIDWEST Pres.: Bennet Leedy month. Every attempt will be made to publish all articles of MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Vice Pres.: Jim Prendergast (New memberships and general interest to AMICA members at the earliest possible Sec.: Jim Weisen borne mailing problems) time and at the discretion of the publisher. Treas.: Alvin Wulfekuhl Bobby Clark Reporter: Ahti Petaja P.O.
    [Show full text]
  • By Michele Marinelli
    ew Jersey inventors and manufacturers played a prominent role in the early music industry by Nintroducing new audio technology to the masses through mechanical musical instruments and the early phonograph. The burgeoning music publishing business in New by Michele York and mechanical music industry in New Jersey were Marinelli instrumental in meeting the public's demand for musical Curator of the entertainment. Their combined growth and success drove New Guinness Collection Jersey's musical manufacturing. Featured at Morris Museum from Originally appeared in Carousel & Automatic Music News June 18 through October 18, 2015, the Guinness-related exhibit, http://www.carouselautomaticmusic.com Musically, Made in New Jersey, highlighted the "music makers." Musically Made In New Jersey | Michele Marinelli www.GardenStateLegacy.com Issue 35 March 2017 By 1895, New Jersey had become the musical box manufacturing center for the United States, and there were no less than six manufacturing companies located in Rahway, Jersey City, Bradley Beach, and Hoboken. These companies employed hundreds of workers, and produced several hundred-thousand instruments over a span of 20 years. It is typically acknowledged that the top three New Jersey manufacturers were The Regina Music Box Company, F.G. Otto & Sons, and The Aeolian Company, and we certainly devoted an appropriate amount of space Advertisement for Monarch Music for their respective objects. But, there were other lesser Boxes from Munsey's Magazine, known companies that were also featured, even if only briefly December 1896 mentioned, such as the American Music Box Company. Although we did not have a music box available to display, we chose to include this short-lived New Jersey manufacturer.
    [Show full text]
  • Copyright by Allison Rebecca Wente 2016
    Copyright by Allison Rebecca Wente 2016 The Dissertation Committee for Allison Rebecca Wente Certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: Magical Mechanics: The Player Piano in the Age of Digital Reproduction Committee: James Buhler, Supervisor Eric Drott Edward Pearsall Byron Almén Charles Carson Karl Miller Magical Mechanics: The Player Piano in the Age of Digital Reproduction by Allison Rebecca Wente, B.A.; M.A. Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin May 2016 Dedication In loving memory of my spitfire of a role model, grandma Rose. Acknowledgements I am forever grateful to James Buhler for his advice, guidance, support, and patience throughout this project. I would never have been able to do this without his willingness to entertain my endless questions and his aid in developing my writing and thinking outside of the box, for encouraging my less traditional thought processes, for helping me set boundaries that kept this dissertation from being double this size, and for never losing interest even when reading the umpteenth draft of something. For additional feedback, thoughts, opinions, and encouragement, I would like to thank Byron Almén, Charles Carson, Karl Miller, Edward Pearsall, and especially Eric Drott. Thank you to Brian Hyer and Leslie Blasius for giving me my first glimpse into what music theory is, transforming my writing, and gently shepherding me into academia. Many thanks go to Ted Conner and Diane Follet as well, my first academic role models and forever friends.
    [Show full text]