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THE www.amica.org Volume 51, Number 2 AMICA March/April 2014 AUTOMATIC COLLECTORS’ ASSOCIATION BULLETIN

ISSN #1533-9726 THE AMICA BULLETIN AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION

Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors’ Association, a Visit the AMICA web site at: http://www.amica.org 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax exempt group devoted to the restoration, distribution, to enter the “Members-Only” portal, Current User Name: AMICA research and enjoyment of automatic musical instruments. AMICA was Password: Bellows@1963 founded in San Francisco, California in 1963.

VOLUME 51, Number 2 March/April 2014 AMICA BULLETIN FEATURES Display and Classified Ads Meet the Younger Generation ...... edited by Glenn Thomas . . . . .53 Articles for Publication Letters to the Publisher Nickel Notes: Jim Krughoff ...... by Matthew Jaro . . . . . 56 Chapter News Style 180 Band Organ ...... by Matthew Caulfield . . . . .64 UPCOMING PUBLICATION Link A Acquisition ...... by Glenn Thomas . . . . .73 DEADLINES Link A Orchestrion Restoration ...... by Paul Manganaro . . . . .74 The ads and articles must be received Repairing / Replacing Roll Leaders . . . .by Douglas Heckrotte . . . . . by the Publisher on the 1st of the 81 Odd number months: Facade a la Mode ...... by Kenneth Hodge . . . . .84 January July Where Are They Now? ...... by Terry Smythe . . . . . March September 86 May November Bulletins will ordinarily be mailed in the 1st week of the even months, for COLUMNS expected delivery mid-month. Editorial Observations ...... Glenn Thomas, Publisher 48 165 Kildee Rd. From the Membership Secretary ...... 48 Belle Mead, NJ 08502 Membership Update ...... Phone: 908-431-0490 49 e-mail: [email protected] Web Sites of Interest ...... 50 On-Line Research Library ...... 50 Letters ...... 51 MEMBERSHIP SERVICES Chapter News ...... 88 Membership Dues: In Memoriam ...... 98 USA Bulk Mail ...... $55.00 USA First Class ...... $70.00 Advertising ...... 102 Overseas ...... $70.00 Canada-Mexico ...... $65.00 Renewals – Additional $5.00 due if Front Cover: Felix Popper and Hupfeld Pan - Jim Krughoff Collection - renewed past the Jan. 31 deadline Page 56 Address changes and corrections Inside Front: Link A Orchestrion - Glenn Thomas Collection - Page 73 Directory information updates Inside Back Cover: Roll Suppliers Additional copies of Back Cover: Wurlitzer Style 180 Band Organ - Jasper Sanfilippo Collection - Page 64 Member Directory . . . . $25.00 Single copies of back issues ($10.00 per - issue – based upon availability) Lyle Merithew & Sandy Swirski 416 Colfax Drive San Jose, CA 95123-3403 408-227-9284 [email protected] To ensure timely delivery of your BULLETIN, please allow 6-weeks advance notice of address changes.

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SECRETARY MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Bob and Bonnie Gonzalez Lyle Merithew & Sandy Swirsky 26 Foremast Cove 416 Colfax Drive Corte Madera, CA 94925 San Jose, CA 95123-3403 415-924-6834 408-227-9284 [email protected] [email protected]

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AMICA ARCHIVES CONVENTION COORDINATOR Tom Hutchinson Frank Nix 15361 Hopper Road 6030 Oakdale Ave. Sturgeon, MO 65284 Woodland Hills, CA 91367 573-442-6675 818-884-6849 [email protected] [email protected]

AMICA MEMORIAL FUND AMICA HONOR ROLL Ray Dietz Thomas & Donna Stengel 1250 Lanier Road 46 Court St. Martinsville, VA 24112-5212 Lancaster NY 14086-2302 276-638-8563 716-683-5309 [email protected] [email protected]

AUDIO-VISUAL & TECHNICAL WEBSITE MANAGER Vacant Karl Ellison 6 Lions Lane Salem, MA 01970-1784 978-740-5680 [email protected]

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CHAPTER OFFICERS FOUNDING CHAPTER LADY LIBERTY ROCKY MOUNTAIN Pres: John Ulrich - 510-223-9587 Pres: Vincent Morgan - 718-479-2562 Pres: Jere DeBacker - 303-570-6243 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Vice Pres: Karen Simons Vice Pres: John Dousmanis - 646 638-2201 Vice Pres: (vacant) Sec: Jack & Dianne Edwards Sec: Bob Stuhmer Sec: Louise Lucero Treas/Board Rep: Lyle Merithew & Sandy Swirsky Treas: Maryam Morgan Treas: Barry Weiss Reporter: Bob & Bonnie Gonzalez Reporter: Martin "Buzz" Rosa Reporter: Larry Emmons Board Rep: Vincent and Maryam Morgan Board Rep: Jere DeBacker BOSTON AREA Pres: Kirk Russell MIDWEST (OH, MI, IN, KY) SOWNY (Southern Ontario,Western New York) [email protected] Pres: Don Johnson - 248-650-1840 Pres: Glenn Roat Vice-Pres: Bill Koenigsberg [email protected] [email protected] Sec: Phyllis Konop Vice Pres: Liz Barnhart Vice Pres: Larry Weingartner [email protected] Sec: Hilda Merchant Sec: Shirley Roat Treas: Dorothy Bromage Treas: Alvin Wulfekuhl [email protected] [email protected] Reporter: Don Johnson Treas: Holly Walter Reporter: (open) Board Rep: Liz Barnhart [email protected] Board Rep: (open) Reporter: Glenn and Shirley Roat NORTHERN LIGHTS (MN, ND, SD, MB, [email protected] CHICAGO AREA NorthernOntario) Board Rep: Mike Walter Pres: Jerry Biasella - 708-756-3307 Pres: Paul Watkins - 763-421-0672 Vice Pres: Richard Van Metre [email protected] SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Sec: Carol Veome - 773-338-1042 Vice Pres: Don Barton Pres: Don Henry [email protected] Sec: Mark Kraabel Vice Pres: Diane De Tar Treas: Joe Pekarek Treas: John Ellingson [email protected] Sect/Reporter: Shirley Nix Reporter: Curt Clifford Reporter: Jerrilynn Boehland [email protected] [email protected] Board Rep: Paul Watkins or Mark Kraabel Treas: Diane Reidy Board Rep: TBD Board Rep: Frank Nix PACIFIC CAN-AM HEART OF AMERICA Pres: Stuart Swanberg - 206 282-7376 TEXAS Pres: Bob Stout - 816-833-1556 [email protected] Pres: Rich Clayton - 972-369-0470 [email protected] Vice Pres: (open) [email protected] Vice Pres: Dan Davis Secretary: Halie Dodrill Vice Pres: Michael Barisonek Sec: Mike Schoeppner Treas: Robert Wilson [email protected] Treas: Greg Moffitt Reporter: David Goodwin, Larry Sanchez Treasurer: Janet Tonnesen Reporters: Dan & Carol Davis Board. Rep: Carl Dodrill [email protected] Board Rep: Gary Craig Secretary: Suzanne McCall [email protected] Bulletin Reporter: Ken Long [email protected] Board Rep: John McCall j-mccall@sbcglobal .net

AFFILIATED SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

American Society (ATOS) Friends of Northwest Association President/CEO – Ken Double 1217 St. Croix Ct. Everson Whittle, Secretary 1815 DeFoors Walk, NW Kirkwood, MO 63122-2326 11 Smiths Road, Darcy Lever, Atlanta, GA 30318 website: http//stlouis.missouri.org/fsjoplin Bolton BL3 2PP, Gt. Manchester, England PH: 404-790-5400 Email: [email protected] Home Phone: 01204 529939 E-mail: [email protected] International Piano Archives at Maryland Business Phone: 01772 208003 Theatre Organ Performing Arts Library,University of Maryland Email: [email protected] Co-Editors – Mike Bryant and Don Feely 2511 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Reed Organ Society Editorial Office College Park, MD 20742 Jim Tyler, Editor, 3111 NE 165th Pl. Phone:301-405-9224 email: [email protected] Vancouver, WA 98682 Fax: 301-314-7170 Phone: 206-619-6645 Email: [email protected] Rollin Smith, Editor, The Tracker E-Mail: [email protected] International Vintage Phono & Mechanical Music Society email: [email protected] Associazione Italiana Musica Meccanica C.G. Nijsen, Secretaire General Pianola Institute Villa Silvia - Via Lizzano, 1241 19 Mackaylaan Clair Cavanagh, Secretary 47023 Cesena (FC), Italy 5631 NM Eindhoven, 43 Great Percy St., WC1X 9RA, England Phone: 0039-547-323425 Musical Box Society of Great Britain Fax: 0039-547-661264 Player Piano Group Alison Biden Duncan James (Secretary), Email: [email protected] St Giles Hilltop, Northbrook Close Website: www.ammi-italia.com 9 Christy Avenue, Chelmsford, Essex, Winchester, Hants. CM1 2BG, England. Australian Collectors of Mechanical Musical Instruments SO23 0JR, UK E-mail: [email protected] Peter Phillips - Editor email: [email protected] Smithsonian Institution 26 Alice Street Musical Box Society International Padstow, NSW 221, Australia Division of Musical History Rosanna Harris, Editor Washington, D.C. 20560 Phone: (612) 9773-4734 P.O. Box 111, email: [email protected] Custer, SD 57730 Society For Self-Playing Musical Instruments Netherlands Pianola Association 605-673-3068 Gesellschaft fur Selbstspielende Nederlandse Pianola Vereniging Email: [email protected] Musikinstrumente (GSM) E.V. Ralf Smolne, President Att. Jan van Hulzen, Member of the Board Netherlands Society-KDV Chopinrode 25 Emmastr. 56 A. T. Meijer D-45130 Essen, 2717 BH Zoetermeer, Netherlands Wilgenstraat 24 email: [email protected] Phone: **49-201-784927 NL-4462 VS Goes, Netherlands Fax :**49-201-7266240 Organ Association of America Email: [email protected] Editor/Publisher: Ron Bopp (918) 527-0589 4725 Montrose Dr., Bradenton, FL, 34210 [email protected]

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 47 Editorial Observations Welcome to Spring. For those of us on the East Coast, it couldn’t come soon enough. The instruments will be pleased to see the warmer temperature and higher humidity! While I have your attention early, if you haven’t already done so, now would be a good time to register for the AMICA Convention in Fresno, May 14-18. Even though it’s only a few weeks away, convention chairman Frank Nix has reserved some space for late registrants. Simply phone him at 818 884-6849 to make your arrangements. Content in this Bulletin is an example of what we will strive for: a focused balance between human interest, player and reproducing , coin pianos / orchestrions, band organs, and diverse and unusual features. Of course that only works when you submit good articles. Contact me with your ideas, and send me your articles! AMICA has long said that we need to entice more young people to appreciate our hobby, then hopefully into the organization. Are you doing your part? In this Bulletin, the first in a series of content from younger members appears in “Meet the Younger Generation.” You’ll be seeing more from them in the future. Who else can you suggest to be added to this group and featured in future Bulletins? Happy centennial anniversary to the Wurlitzer 165 band organ! In 1914, this magnificent instrument was born and spawned many similar models and variations. Can you guess I have a strong relationship with this organ? In honor of the centennial, expect to see several articles related to this organ, its brothers and sisters, and operation throughout 2014. In this issue, Matthew Caulfield writes about its big brother, “The Wurlitzer Style 180 Band Organ.” In the next Bulletin, we will start a new column, “Calendar of Events”, listing forthcoming events such as chapter meetings, conventions, special events, and functions of interest to members. Please submit your listing! We are still looking for users of midi or any of its components for a future article. Early deadline next issue. Due to the Fresno Convention, all material for the May – June issue must be received by April 25, rather than the traditional May 1.

Regards, Glenn Thomas [email protected]

FROM THE MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Hi everyone,

Our efforts at renewal are moving slowly along. As of 2/28/14, 126 members have not contacted us about renewal. Hopefully, they will soon. Even if they are not renewing it would be great to know that.

If you know of someone who has decided not to renew, please let us know.

It seems that there was a computer glitch and a few people were omitted from the new Directory. We don't know why, but we apologize. Please check your new Directory to verify if your name is included. If you were omitted, please let us know and we will compile a list to have printed and included in the next Bulletin hopefully as a separate insert.

So far Mark and Charmine Hass and Roy Beltz have contacted us. They are both in the old directory.

Best, Sandy Swirsky and Lyle Merithew Membership Secretaries

48 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 Membership Update

Lyle Merithew & Sandy Swirsky John & Pat Bartlett Shane & Karen Faire Ronald Palmer 146 Bridwell Rd. P.O. Box 1210 1651 n. Kst. Apt 20 Woodruff, SC, 29338 Point Clear, AL, 36564 Pensacola, FL, 32501 864-476-7100 251-990-4994 850-454-6492c [email protected] [email protected] Bob Smith David Bjork Charles & Louise Hield 23971 Jonathan Place 2511 Highwood Ave 7203 Forestwind Ct Murrieta, CA, 92562 Maplewood MN 55119 Arlington, TX, 76001-4843 951-491-4040 817-483-6574 [email protected] Paul Brown [email protected] RPO Denman Place Phil Troost PO Box 47046 Robert Loeffler 491 W. Funk Rd Vancouver, BC, Canada V6G 3E1 Robert's Musical Restorations Lake Arthur, NM, 88253 [email protected] 2172 N. Spring Garden Ave 575-365-2793 Deland, FL, 32720 Peter Corfield 407-234-4747 Richard Volk 76 Carlile Cres [email protected] 1809 Sun-Gazer Dr Saint John New Brunswick E2J5C4 Rockledge, FL, 32955-6320 Canada Gordon Lund 716-839-9767 [email protected] 2910 Donelson Road [email protected] Jamestown, NY, 14701 Robert Dwyer 15112 Winesap Drive Donald Nichols North Potomac, MD, 20878 2691 Lewis Place [email protected] Lompoc, CA, 93436 [email protected]

Heine Piano Co., San Francisco. Can you identify the car and the piano? Photo courtesy Bill Chapman

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 49 Web-Sites of Interest by Terry Smythe 7 Year old boy conducts Die Fledermaus Overture Rick Smith-Piano Man Greenfield Bowie's Piano Music Site (midi) (contributed by Vincent Morgan) (contributed by Neal Siegal) (contributed by Andrew Barrett) http://tinyurl.com/bxpy3gl http://tinyurl.com/n7o3f57 http://www.greenfieldbowie.com/

Virginia's Musical Museum Reproducing Foundation Bob Berkman and his Pianola (contributed by Vincent Morgan) http://www.rprf.org/ (contributed by Robert Perry) http://www.virginiamusicalmuseum.com/ http://tinyurl.com/mtqbenf Convert audio to midi. A Concert http://tinyurl.com/oe7c748 Keys For Kids, a charity of note. (contributed by Vincent Morgan) (contributed by Thad Kochanny) http://tinyurl.com/n4osyo8 http://keys44kids.com/

Additions to our On-Line Research Library by Terry Smythe

Carillon_to_Ampichron, Founding Chapter 1977 Music Trades 20 November 1926 Ampico A and B Consolidated Technical Music Trades 27 November 1926 Duo-Art Consolidated Technical Music Trades 4 December 1926 Music Trades 20 March 1926 Music Trades 11 December 1926 Music Trades 27 March 1926 Music Trades 18 December 1926 Annual Review and Forecast Music Trades 3 April 1926 Music Trades 25 December 1926 Music Trades 10 April 1926 Music Trades 2 July 1927 Music Trades 17 April 1926 Music Trades 9 July 1927 Music Trades 24 April 1926 Music Trades 16 July 1927 Music Trades 1 May 1926 Music Trades 23 July 1927 Music Trades 8 May 1926 Music Trades 30 July 1927 Music Trades 15 May 1926 Music Trades 6 August 1927 Music Trades 22 May 1926 Music Trades 13 August 1927 Music Trades 29 May 1926 Convention Issue Music Trades 20 August 1927 Music Trades 5 June 1926 Music Trades 27 August 1927 Music Trades 19 June 1926 Music Trades 3 September 1927 Music Trades 26 June 1926 Music Trades 10 September 1027 Music Trades 3 July 1926 Music Trades 17 September 1927 Music Trades 10 July 1926 Music Trades 24 September 1927 Music Trades 17 July 1926 Music Trades 1 October 1927 Music Trades 24 July 1926 Music Trades 8 October 1927 Music Trades 31 July 1926 Music Trades 15 October 1927 Music Trades 7 August 1926 Music Trades 22 October 1927 Music Trades 14 August 1926 Music Trades 29 October 1927 Music Trades 21 August 1926 Music Trades 5 November 1927 Music Trades 28 August 1926 Music Trades 12 November 1927 Music Trades 4 September 1926 Music Trades 19 November 1927 Music Trades 11 September 1926 Music Trades 26 November 1927 Music Trades 18 September 1926 Music Trades 3 December 1927 Music Trades 25 September 1926 Music Trades 10 December 1927 Music Trades 2 October 1926 Music Trades 17 December 1927 Annual-Review_and_1928-Forecast Music Trades 9 October 1926 Music Trades 24 December 1927 Music Trades 16 October 1926 Music Trades 31 December 1927 Music Trades 23 October 1926 Music Trades 30 October 1926 To access these files, please follow the log-in instructions Music Trades 6 November 1926 in the Bulletin on the Title Page, top-right. Music Trades 13 November 1926

50 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 LETTERS

June, 2014 European Tour Dear Editor, Below is a short contribution from Europe for the AMICA Bulletin, destined to keep alive what's going on here and to arouse interest for the Amica tour in June 2014. The annual meeting of GSM, the German Gesellschaft fur selbstspielende Musikinstrumente, was held in October in the very exciting surroundings of the huge Technical Museum at Speyer, near the river Rhine, north of Mannheim. Apart from the meeting and two technical/historical expert lectures, there were dinners and demonstrations and get togethers of old and new members, interspersed by guided tours through the huge museum halls with classic cars, airplanes, etc. from Germany, the USA, and elsewhere. Most interesting, however, was a tour through a building devoted to automatic musical instruments, Wilhelmsbau. There we were guided by permanent restorers Gotthard Arnold and his lovely assistant Sina Hildebrand. The day before this was preceded by a visit to the Technical Museun's main hall, where the duo had restored the giant Welte Philharmonie Orgel, now playing automatically as well as manually, impressive if not sensational. This organ was originally built in 1916 by the Welte subsidiary in New York, in cooperation with the Skinner Company. The first owner was Eugene Meyer Jr. founder of the Washington Post, who bought it for 22.000 $. In 1993 it went to Speyer in a very poor condition with many important parts missing. Renovation took almost two years and it now has an automatic roll changer (lO-fold paternoster) to operate 2592 pipes. The Wilhelmsbau Museum takes visitors back to the turn-of-century era. It has rooms with historic fashion, uniforms, weapons, toys, hunting trophies and other items used by the middle classes in the same years the exhibited musical instruments were built, mainly in Germany by Hupfeld, Popper, Losche, Weber, Blessing or Imhof & Mukle. Hupfeld's Phonoliszt Violina with its self-playing can be admired in three forms, combining three or even four violins with the sound of a piano. On each one of the four strings is played by a circular bow holding 1344 strands of horsehair. The pitch being determined by 11 pneumatically controlled metal fingers. There is, of course, also a Mills Violano Virtuoso, a large number of hand-cranked organs and street organs in various sizes. Thanks to the owner, Mr. Layher, the visit could be arranged by Ralf Smolne, GSM chairman and his board members. Kees Nijsen International Vintage & Mechanical Music Society, 19 Mackaylaan, 5631 NM Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Giant Welte Philharmonic organ at Speyer Museum main build

Phonoliszt Violina at Speyer Museum's Wilhelmsb

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 51 Welte Cottage Orchestrion Responses to the undated photo of a Welte Cottage Orchestrion on page 260 of Nov-Dec 2013 AMICA Bulletin: The big orchestrion organ on page 260 is a Style 10 Welte from all appearances. Where is anybody's guess, although it might be the William P. Snyder residence in Sewickley, PA. Derward Center ought to know. The Spreckels mansion in San Francisco is supposed to have also had one. Jim Crank

What a wonderful photograph of a large Welte. Alas, I have no knowledge of where it was. I do know that it is not the Snyder's of Sewickley Welte. That organ was installed behind a grill with no case in 1905. It remained there until about 1938 when it was scrapped in order to utilize the space for a wet bar, according to Whitney Snyder. The room with the organ grill looks about the same today as seen in some of the Welte literature. A few pipes and all the 100 rolls survived in the basement of the house. The attached photo shows the 1905 receipt for the Snyder Welte. I do not have the original and did not credit the photo's source. It could have been Larry Givens. If you find out the location of the one in the AMICA Bulletin, please let me know Durward Center

That Society Rag From the San Francisco Call, 18 Jan 13, we read: "Land and Products" Show Opens Tonight Fresno, Jan17. Decorators worked all night in the Rowell auditorium to rush the final preparations for the San Joaquin valley land products exposition which opens here tomorrow night. The show will last for a week and each day will be devoted to some special group of towns. Some of the excursionists will arrive with their own brass bands. Tuesday night is to be featured as "society night" and musical specialties are to be given, including a "society rag," repeated from the recently produced operetta, "The Girl in the Dark," written by Lionel Dalton and James Gearhart of this city. Miss Rene Dalton, cousin of the librettist, will be the soloist and a chorus of society girls and chorus men will provide the accompanying "rag" steps. Among them will be Misses Margherita Beveridge, Helen Rogers, Dorothy Forsyth, Estell and Jane Gray. A prominent exhibit will be the "bank pyramid." Each block will be labeled with the name of the banking house it represents and its size will be in proportion to the amount of the bank's resources. From Dick Baker (via Stephen Kent Goodman)

52 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 Meet The Younger Generation edited by Glenn Thomas

Editor’s note: A part of AMICA’s future is to introduce mechanical music to a new generation of enthusiasts. We encourage Chapters and members to share their other profiles and successes. Here are profiles authored by four of the new generation. You may see contributions from them in the future.

ANDREW E. BARRETT Costa Mesa, California Andrew E. Barrett was born in . His father is a professional jazz musician and arranger, and his mother is a secretary. While very young, his parents took him to Germany on a trip as part of a series of jazz concerts. He visited the Technik-Museum in Sinsheim, Germany where he heard a number of automatic musical instruments for the first time, including what he now believes was a Decap coin-operated mounted high up on a platform. The moving , flashing lights, and happy music from this instrument captivated the youngster. Back in New York, Andrew soon discovered the area had many antique with operating organs. Unlike many children his age who either ignored the organ music on the carousel, or were terrified by its volume, Andrew loved the organ, especially the Ruth organ on the Central Park Carousel. At about seven years old, Andrew received Bowers’ book, "Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments" from two friends of the family. As a voracious reader, he soon devoured the book. After a move to New Jersey. Andrew met and was influenced by instrument collectors Rusty King and Tom Billy who showed him a Wurlitzer 125 band organ, a Link AX Orchestrion and a Ruth 33-A organ, among others, and explained how these instruments work. More personal influences, collection visits, and recordings soon followed to continue Andrew’s interest. After moving to Southern California in 1996, he soon became a regular attendee of the band organ rallies there, and became an AMICA member in 2006. Andrew's current automatic instrument collection includes: "Lehmann” upright player piano (H. C. Bay ); "Hammond” upright player piano (Standard Player action, current project!); Aeolian "Pianola" 65-note push-up piano player; Reproduco piano / organ, missing the piano and player action; and "National" brand coin piano made by the National Piano Player Co. of Oregon, Illinois, using a Seybold piano. As a mechanical music enthusiast and historian, Andrew’s wish list includes many exceedingly rare or thought-to-be- nonexistent instruments: Wurlitzer 38 (not 38-B) PianOrchestra; Wurlitzer style 163 band organ; Niagara En-Symphonie player ; North Tonawanda Orchestrina orchestrion; Wurlitzer style 126 band organ; and a Wurlitzer style 27-B or 27-A Mandolin PianOrchestra. Andrew is quick to mention that except for the 126, none of these are known in general circulation, and hopes someone will identify one’s whereabouts and notify him! At the very least, he is expecting a few entertaining adventures into old newspapers and/or neighborhoods, with the reward of the rediscovery of one or two previously-lost instruments or music rolls or on-location photographs at the end of the journey! Andrew E. Barrett is currently a college student studying Musicology, and a Southern California musician specializing in , pop, and jazz piano, and American popular songs and instrumentals from circa 1905-1925. He can be reached at [email protected]. Additionally, his scholarly musings on mechanical music can be found on Facebook.

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 53 TJ FISHER Lexington, Virginia TJ Fisher is a junior at Washington & Lee University, where he majors in history and theatre and minors in museum studies. His primary interests in mechanical music are band organs and piano-based instruments, and particularly ensuring their continued cultural relevance. TJ has been the primary day-to-day caretaker of the Wurlitzer 165 at Glen Echo Park since 2010 and has explored different methods of historical interpretation there, including handouts, a "Now Playing" display, the use of social media, and educational programs for children and adults. He is searching for further opportunities to use these interpretive skills while learning more about the technical aspects of mechanical music, and is teaching himself to arrange for band organ." Among TJ’s other historical interests are amusement parks, on which he plans to write his undergraduate thesis, and American popular music of the 1920s- 1960s, the subject of one of his two weekly radio shows on WLUR in Lexington, VA. His other activities at Washington & Lee include Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity (Chaplain and former Vice President for Member Development, the University Singers (Manager and Tenor I), the Washingtones a cappella group (President and Tenor I), club swimming (Manager and Coach), and the GLBT Equality Initiative (President), and he is active at Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran Church. TJ looks forward to graduate school after earning his undergraduate degree, and to continued activity in the mechanical music community in 2014. He can be reached at [email protected].

IAN FRASER Staten Island, New York Ian Fraser is the youngest member of AMICA and COAA. He became interested in mechanical music when he was two years old after watching and listening to a Stinson style 35 band organ play at the Carousel for All Children in Staten Island, New York. In addition to mechanical music, he is also a carousel fan. With his family, he has traveled to carousels throughout the Northeast. They especially like visiting the ones with working band organs. Favorites are at Knoebels, Seabreeze Amusement Park, and Crescent Park. After attending his first rally at Knoebels in 2008, he bought his first orguinette. It is an 1881 Celestina made by the Mechanical Orguinette Company of New York. He has since started a “mini collection” with two more orguinettes, a Brewster player piano, and many music rolls. He also hopes to buy a band organ one day. His dream is to own a Wurlitzer 153 since that’s his favorite model. He would also like to restore player pianos and band organs. For the past several years, he has played his Celestina orguinette at many rallies in New York, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. He looks forward to returning to Knoebels in June to watch the band organs and play his Celestina. He joined AMICA in 2013 after participating in the Coney Island rally. He has had a great time attending AMICA events in the past few months and looks forward to more great times. He would like to thank Vincent Morgan for his help and introducing him to the Lady Liberty Chapter. He would also like to thank Glenn Thomas and the other members who have taken the time to share their knowledge with him. Ian can be reached at [email protected]

54 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 MIKEY MILLS Cold Spring, Kentucky Mikey Mills was born in New Jersey and was exposed to mechanical music at a very early age. The first music machines he saw were band organs including the Wurlitzer 153 at Hershey Park, along with the assorted band organs at Knoebels. He has many fond memories of also going to Dorney Park and listening to their two band organs. (Although according to him, the condition of them was only ‘so-so’) He then moved to Kentucky when he turned seven, where he remains today. There, he was exposed to Kings Island’s Wurlitzer 157 band organ, which unluckily was put into storage right after he moved there! He then made it his mission to have it fixed, and playing on the carousel, and it finally will be this summer – after nine years of what he calls ‘nagging’. In 2009, Mikey went to his first band organ rally and was more hooked than ever before. He was astonished by the array of restored band organs playing some of the best music. His only complaint was that he did not learn about these sooner as he discovered organ rallies through YouTube. Previously to around this time, Mikey hadn’t heard a nickelodeon, orchestrion, or reproducing piano live and only in videos, due to them not being on public display. When he saw his first Wurlitzer PianOrchestra (Phillips Pianella), he couldn’t believe his eyes. (Let alone ears!) His first experience with a Seeburg KT had the same effect, as he recalls Pete Wendling’s arrangement of “Sweet Georgia Brown”, which is one of his favorites on the scale. Mikey then attended more and more organ rallies and events, and published a website exclusively about mechanical music. (www.mechanicalmusic.org) Mikey says that his goal of the website is to ‘stir up’ new interest, and entertain others in the hobby with his more than 200 different sound recordings of different instruments. Recently, Mikey has gotten into arranging for mechanical instruments, especially the Wurlitzer 165 scale, but he has also arranged for Wurlitzer 150, A.P.P, and 20 note . (And is considering others) Mikey has completed over 100 individual arrangements for different instruments, and is ‘working on’ getting a roll cut. He firmly believes that mechanical music is the best hobby in the world, along with the ‘happiest music on earth’, but also says that “a great hobby always has great people in it, which mechanical music definitely has!” He can be reached at [email protected].

Music Trades, May, 1926. Courtesy Terry Smythe

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 55 Nickel Notes by Matthew Jaro

There are three major collections of mechanical music in the U.S. Upper Midwest: Robert and Sharon Gilson’s collection in Wisconsin, and in the Chicago area, the collection of Jasper and Marian Sanfilippo, and the collection of Jim and Sherrie Krughoff. In this issue of Nickel Notes we are going to visit Jim and Sherrie Krughoff of Downers Grove, Illinois. Whenever there is an MBSI or AMICA convention in the Chicago area, the Krughoff collection is always on the tour. In fact, these collections are the REASON there are so many mechanical music conventions in the area. In addition to having a wonderful collection, Jim and Sherrie are the nicest people you will ever meet. They are known for their hospitality and willingness to open their collection to visitors. I have been with the Krughoffs on two Bumbling Bruder Tours and they were always great to be with. (The Bumbling Bruder Tours are travel events organized by Ron and Mary Jo Bopp to visit important mechanical music sites in Europe and which always coincide with the Organ Festival every three years in June). The Krughoffs used to collect early cast iron slot machines and Corvette cars. They had one of the largest and most important collections of both. They decided to liquidate these collections because the slot machines didn’t do much and one wouldn’t want to add mileage to such valuable cars. Jim had seen a player piano at a Skakey’s Pizza Parlor and knew a deep interest had been born. Jim acquired a Seeburg KT Special, then went home and told Sherrie he Jim Krughoff had bought a nickelodeon and it would be delivered the next day. Sherrie asked “What’s a nickelodeon?” Jim explained, “It is a wooden box that has musical instruments inside.” She said it sounded like a “piece of junk” and she wouldn’t want one in their home. However, after seeing and hearing it, she fell in love with mechanical music and since then they have shared the obsession. Simultaneously, they discovered the MBSI (1983) and the other area collectors. While visiting Dave Ramey, to see an available machine, Dave remarked that since they liked mechanical music and had collected slot machines, they must know Jasper Sanfilippo. Jim and Sherrie asked, “What’s a Jasper Sanfilippo?” Jim and Sherrie then acquired a Regina changer, some cylinder boxes, a Seeburg “H” and finally a Weber Unika, restored by Dave Ramey. While Jim and Sherrie like the American machines, after visiting the Sanfilippo and Gilson collections, the Unika marked their transition to the European machines that played more sophisticated music. The Krughoffs joined AMICA in 1986. The Krughoffs were in the real estate development business and built over 3,000 homes in the Chicago suburban area. Son Dan and his wife, Nikole and their two children, Gavin and Gillian, live next door and assist with hosting musical Sherrie Krughoff events. Dan has a major role in the operation of the family music collection. They are members of both AMICA and MBSI. In 2009 and 2013 Jim and Sherrie were presented the AMICA International Award. Also in 2013, they received the 2013 Roehl Musical Ambassador Award at the MBSI convention in Chicago. Additionally, Jim and Sherrie Krughoff founded the Lake Michigan Chapter of the MBSI.

56 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 De Grote Steenput Concert The Steenput Frères Company of Puurs, built this wonderful organ in 1928. It’s a 97-key instrument with 786 pipes and 14 automatic registers. In 1963, the large Steenput was purchased and preserved by Herman Wind who also obtained a large library of music from . The organ was rebuilt by the Perlee Company in . This was the only organ described as phenomenal by the mechanical organ preservation group in Holland. In 1992, the organ became available and was recommended to the Krughoffs by Tim Trager. They purchased the instrument after hearing Tom Meijer’s superb arrangement of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 performed on the organ via an old 78 rpm recording. Johnny Verbeeck and his staff completely restored the organ in 1993. The Krughoffs bought an extensive library of music from the only other Steenput concert organ (destroyed in a World War II bombing raid). One exciting note – The Steenput organ was on the list of the National Treasures of Holland and could not be exported from Holland. However, the law restricting the export did not go into effect until a month after the Krughoffs received the shipment. The Krughoffs had the Steenput mounted on a trailer and would take it to the various organ rallies pulled by a Ford F-350 Dually. It made its American public debut at the MBSI Mid-Am Organ Rally in Muscatine, Iowa during the Mississippi River flooding in July, 1993, only hours after being delivered to the Krughoffs from its restoration in Belgium. Johnny and Jeffrey Verbeeck accompanied the Krughoffs and their organ on this journey. (Some readers might remember the impromptu meeting of the “Steenput Concert Organ Club” at that rally). It was certainly America’s largest traveling concert fairground organ. There are two wonderful CDs of the organ, one with light classical overtures (including the Hungarian Rhapsody) and the other with favorite popular selections. Steenput organ The Krughoffs no longer take the Steenput on tours. The machine is permanently on display in their music building.

The Ruth 38er Keyless Concert Fairground Organ The Ruth & Sohn model 38 (96 keyless) organ was built in Waldkirch, Germany for a showman from named Hattenhorst. The following is an extract from Andrew Pilmer’s website (acpilmer.com):

An inscription in the bellows is dated February 26, 1907. This organ is reputed to be the last with which Adolf Ruth I was personally involved, for he died shortly after- wards, on March 21 of the same year. On Hattenhorst’s retirement, the organ passed to his son-in-law, Otto , who was based in Erfurt, East Ruth 38 fairground organ

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 57 Germany. Having somehow survived the ravages of the Second World War, the instrument was acquired by Berlin showman Ludwig Rausch in 1949. Eventually, his son Dieter became the organ’s owner, and he often used it at fairs alongside his Dodgem track. Restrictions enforced by the East German authorities limited what he was able to do with the organ, but Rausch did succeed in acquiring some new music for it from Carl Frei, and was also able to have the façade re-decorated. After the Berlin Wall fell in 1990, the organ gradually became known to a number of collectors in Europe and the US, but it was Jim Krughoff who eventually succeeded in acquiring it in June 2002. It was shipped to the in its original showman’s display trailer and set up at his home near Chicago. Its travels were not at an end, however, for it was discovered on further inspection that only a comprehensive restoration could bring the instrument back to its intended playing standard. The absolutely original condition of the organ had been a major factor in Jim Krughoff’s decision to add it to his collection. Perhaps the scarcity of organ builders in the communist state and a general lack of money there had spared the instrument from later enlargement or ‘improvement’. Anxious not to spoil the integrity of the instrument, the task of restoration was entrusted to AC Pilmer Automatic Music Ltd. and the organ was duly shipped to York, England, where the work was carried out over the next couple of years. Under the direction of Russell Wattam, workshop manager, every component of the instrument received attention. The open flue pipework had particularly suffered from unsympathetic handling in the past and much care was bestowed on returning it to its original state. The wind pressure had been increased at some time, and this was returned to its correct level. The work also involved the complete overhaul, repair and re-leathering of the large bellows (‘pump’ to our readers in the United States), wind chest, and primary action; in all many hundreds of hours of work. A careful tuning at the correct pitch and to the original temperament completed the job. During this time, the façade and figures remained in the United States as the decorative work of the 1980’s is still in very good condition. The organ’s return to Chicago in July 2006 coincided with the AMICA convention when it was premièred in its restored state. Its majestic, dignified sound, optimally balanced between the silvery upper work of the and the deep, full, rounded and is an example of the very best in German fair . Jim Krughoff, realizing the potential of the extensive library of music available for the Ruth 38 scale, also ordered around 1300 m of new books, which were produced from the original patterns of the Ruth firm (acquired by Voigt Orgelbau, am Main, Germany) in 1936), as well as the patterns of Carl Frei and Gustav Bruder, now in the possession of Keller & Kern, of Saverdun, France. Gustav Bruder produced some exceptional arrangements for this scale after World War II. Amongst this music are some of the finest arrangements of operatic overtures and fantasias, concert waltzes, characteristic pieces, selections from operettas, marches etc. ever made for fairground organs. A particularly challenging piece is Tchaikowsky’s Cappriccio Italien, the well-known symphonic tone poem, in a masterful arrangement by Gustav Bruder. Such repertoire elevates the fairground organ to that of a convincing interpreter of serious music. These books were cut on a traditional foot-operated punching machine while the restoration of the organ progressed. After the restoration Jim and Sherrie ordered an additional 1375.5 meters of music, making a total of 2,675.5 meters, or a total of 11.5 hours of music for the Ruth! On one of the Bumbling Bruder tours, I heard the Cappriccio Italien played on a Ruth 38. It was the Gustav Bruder arrangement. I was so excited -- I had to drag Jim to the train station to hear it. Imagine how I felt when I visited Jim’s at the AMICA convention and heard the same arrangement on his own Ruth 38. It was positively electrifying – especially so with a brand new restoration by very skilled craftsmen. I’ll never forget the experience. Of all the mechanical music machines, the Ruth 38 would have to be at the very top of my list. Andrew Pilmer’s website has a sample of music you can hear.

The Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina Machines Jim and Sherrie Krughoff acquired a Model B Phonoliszt from a Butterfield and Butterfield auction in San Francisco in 1987. According to Art Reblitz in his Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments book (a MUST for every collector), the machine was in the Smallwood collection, the Eakins Gay 90s Village, ’s Cars of Yesterday (Sarasota, FL) and Mangel’s American Museum of Public Recreation (Coney Island, NY) in the late 20s. It was retailed by Ernst Böcker in New York City. The Krughoffs had it restored in 1989 by Dave Ramey. They later sold it to J Douglas Cusick.

58 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 The Krughoffs also acquired a Model A Phonoliszt, which was restored by Siegfried Wendel in 1993. The story was that it was taken out of Eastern Europe by gypsies. Tim Trager asked Siegfried if he could construct a machine with six violins (instead of the usual three). Though they no longer existed, six-violin machines had appeared in the literature, so Siegfried Wendel experimented with playing two machines with two rolls at the same time to see how multiple violins sounded. Jim had agreed to buy one if it could be made. So Siegfried and his son Jens designed a bigger pneumatic system and built the machine. The result is currently in Jim’s music room.

Double Phonoliszt The Wurlitzer 4/33 Theatre Pipe Organ The beautiful theatre organ, known as the “7th Street Organ” came from the Pizza Restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona. They currently have a location in Mesa, Arizona with another organ. According to their website: In 1984, Bill Brown decided to retire from the restaurant business. The Phoenix Organ Stop was sold to a real estate developer, who sold the pipe organ and demolished the building in favor of an office complex. Incidentally, that instrument was sold to a couple in Downers Grove, Illinois, for installation in their home! The couple, of course, is our own Jim and Sherrie Krughoff! The incredibly talented David L. Junchen was hired to move the organ and install it. It took Dave and two organ technicians approximately nine months to do this. There were two semi-trailers full of parts. The originally came from the Missouri Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri. According to a cinema blog: The first console of the Missouri died in a fire due to a careless smoker. The 2nd console along with a new expanded unification relay took its place and made the organ noteworthy. In 1954 the console was purchased by Harvey Heck who made it part of the Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre Wurlitzer that he owned. In 1972 it became part of Bill Brown’s Wurlitzer in the first “Organ Stop Pizza”. In 1987 the restaurant closed, organ removed and was sold to Jim and Sherrie Krughoff in Downers Grove, IL and Dave Junchen restored it and it Wurlitzer 4/33 theatre organ console is now part of the Krughoff Residence Wurlitzer since Aug. 5, 1989 when it was formally dedicated with three concerts played by Walt Sorony.. More history on the organ: The origins of the organ can be traced back to the 3/14 Wurlitzer installed in the Grauman’s Egyptian theatre in Hollywood, California in 1921. The organ was purchased and removed by Harvey Heck, and installed in his home in Tarzana, California. Harvey added to the organ including the acquisition of a four manual Wurlitzer console from the Missouri Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri. Harvey later sold the organ to Bill Brown who installed it in a pizza restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona. During the pizza parlor days the organ was the testing ground for determining what was the best sounds for a public venue restaurant theatre organ. When the

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 59 restaurant closed, the organ was purchased by Jim and Sherrie Krughoff for their residence organ and it was installed by the late Dave Junchen. The organ is still controlled by the same console from the Missouri Theatre (minus the layers of grease from its pizza parlor days)!.

The Seeburg H Orchestrion Jim and Sherrie acquired the Seeburg H orchestrion in 1985 from Bob Brown. Before that, it belonged to Sam Robins (Play it Again Sam’s, Chicago, IL). Before that, it belonged to Steve Hecht (Chicago) and before that, the salvage yard (, IL). It was restored by Dave Ramey around 1977. There is an interesting story about the acquisition of rolls. Someone familiar with mechanical music saw a truck hauling rolls from a flood-damaged theater. They turned out to be 60 untouched original Seeburg “H” rolls on their way to the dump! Fortunately, these were saved and are now in the Krughoff collection.

The Hupfeld Pan Model I The Pan Orchestra was originally retailed by Duwaer and Naessens, Amsterdam (1920), then in the 1940’s it was bought by Lou Bennet, then Jim DeRoin (1950s), then Otto Carlsen, then Haning and White, then Harold Freiheit, then David Bowers (1986) and finally Jim and Sherrie Krughoff in 1987. It was restored by Reblitz Restorations in 1989. When the Krughoffs bought the machine, it had been stored on Harold Freiheit’s porch for years. It was restored by Reblitz Restorations in 1989. The Pan has a full reproducing piano, a ten roll changer, along with many multiplexed functions, making things even more complex. (See cover photo)

The Philipps Monstre Paganini Orchestrion This is one of the most stunning machines you will ever see. It was restored from many original parts and a gorgeous reproduction cabinet was made by Siegfried Wendel and his Mechanische Musikwerke Manufaktur. It’s one of the largest orchestrions ever made. Philipps said it represents a string orchestra of 40 to 50 musicians. Siegfried discovered the machine in and describes his adventures in his book, Datenspeicher- Musikinstrumente (Data Storage Musical Instruments). On his visit to Budapest, Siegfried says: The place was filled to the ceiling. Instead of walking on the floor we had to Philipps Monstre Paganini climb over suitcases, valises, trunks and old furniture. “Where is the Paganini Kino machine?” “We have to climb on this trunk to your right and then on the armoire.” Behind this, we saw the Paganini. We saw, among the bric-à-brac, the only instrument of its kind that likely survived in the world. “Is it complete?” “Yes, and it works!” It was evident that the instrument was not likely in a working state but its survival was certainly a miracle.

A Tour of the Krughoff Collection The extent of this collection is staggering, representing one of the finest mechanical music collections in the world. Some instruments are the only known examples. Consider the instruments on display and their restorers: • Ruth 38 Concert Fairground Organ (Andrew Pilmer and Russell Wattam) • Steenput Concert Fairground Organ (Johnny Verbeeck) • Mason & Hamlin Italian Carved AMPICO A Piano (Bob Taylor) • Wurlitzer CX Orchestrion with (Jerry Biasella) • Philipps/Wurlitzer PianOrchestra Style 33 (Tim Westman) obtained from the RKO prop department • Philipps Monstre Paganini Orchestrion (Siegfried and Jens Wendel) • Welte Briscovia C Luxus Orchestrion (Hayes McClaran.) • Early style Weber Maesto (Dave Ramey) • Hupfeld Violina-Orchestra (reproduction by Siegfried and Jens Wendel) • Hupfeld Model A Phonoliszt-Violina (Siegfried Wendel and Jens Wendel) • Bursens Arburo Dance organ (Johnny Verbeeck) 60 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 Welte Style IV

Welte Briscovia C Luxus

Decap Robot Band

Mason and Hamlin Ampico A • De Cap Robot Band (Andrew Pilmer and Russell Wattam) • Weber Grandezza with moving scene Dave Ramey) • Seeburg “H” Orchestrion (Dave Ramey) • Le Ludion Organ 32-note Baladin Organ (Eve and Philippe Crasse) • Verbeeck 40-key small Dutch Street Organ (Johnny Verbeeck) • Bruder Aerophon roll-operatedFairground Organ. It has a pinned cylinder that plays and during rewind • Holl German (Hohl) • Bacigalupo Organ (reproduction by Kurt Niemuth) • Welte Multitone (Motion Picture and Cabaret Midget Orchestra). Same as a Coinola X with 4 extra foot pedals and extra control buttons on the keyboard for hand use to play the instruments in the machine. The Welte version was probably something special that Welte had ordered from Coinola to be able to offer a photo-player in the Welte lineup. Only two are known to exist. (Dave Ramey)

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 61 • Mills Bow Front Violano Virtuoso (Dave Ramey) • Wurlitzer 4/33 Theatre Organ (David L. Junchen) • Hupfeld Pan Model I (Art Reblitz) • Welte Style 4 Concert Orchestrion (Siegfried Wendel and Durward Center) • Hupfeld Peasant Band Orchestrion. From 1897 catalog. (Pipes play from metal disks) • Double Phonoliszt-Violina (reproduction by Siegfried Wendel and Jens Wendel) • Hupfeld II/25 Helios Orchestrion (Hayes McClaran) • Popper Felix Orchestrion (Hayes McClaran) • Hupfeld Symphonie Jazz Orchestrion Model 19 (Ron Cappel) • Weber Unika with moving scene (Dave Ramey) • Oehrlein Player (Franz Oehrlein) • Oehrlein Organ Grinder (Franz Oehrlein) • Cremona “J” Orchestrion (Dave Ramey) • Mason & Hamlin Hepplewhite AMPICO B Piano (Jim Blanchard and Bob Taylor) Duo-Art Concerola • Steinway Model AY Duo-Art with original Concertola changer • Ramey -Orchestra (Dave Ramey) • Lochmann Disk with bells • Regina Corona Style 35 Disk Changer Music Box with clock • Reginphone Rookwood Style 140 (15 ½ inch disk music box with phonograph) • Le Ludion Musical Secretary Desk • Various Cylinder Music Boxes • Nicole Frères Variation Box with 194 teeth, 6 octaves fully chromatic except for lowest four notes. • Monopol Gnome Automat (Style 71) • Syphonion Gambrinus Style 25GS All of these machines are beautifully displayed and everything works wonderfully. In short, visiting Jim and Sherrie Krughoff was an exhilarating experience. Hupfeld Pan Interior I gratefully acknowledge the help of Art Reblitz in compiling this article. Jim Krughoff can be reached at [email protected] Matt Jaro can be contacted at [email protected]

Art Reblitz by Hupfeld Pan Dave Ramey by Welte

62 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 Pianorchestra detail

Ruth 38 Close up

Steenput Close up

Welte Maesto

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 63 The Wurlitzer Style 180 Band Organ by Matthew Caulfield

Figure 1: Wurlitzer style 180 band organ factory photograph (courtesy: The American Carousel Organ by Ron Bopp)

Introduction by Q. David Bowers:

Among American band organs one name stands out above all others: Wurlitzer!

Starting in the 1890s with an arrangement with Eugene deKleist of the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Works, the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, headquartered in Cincinnati with a branch in Chicago, began selling barrel organs. Customers included traveling shows, roller skating rinks, merry-go-rounds and other venues in which loud music was desirable to draw crowds and keep them there.

This arrangement continued into the 20th century, by which time the band organs were larger and more complex, eventually using rolls instead of pinned wooden cylinders. At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis World’s Fair) in 1904 Wurlitzer had a large exhibit featuring band organs, automatic pianos, and other instruments made for them by deKleist. In 1908 deKleist sold out to Wurlitzer. In 1909 Farny Wurlitzer, one of Rudolph’s three sons, moved from Cincinnati to North Tonawanda to take charge of operations.

In ensuing years the Wurlitzer line of band organs was expanded, most of which used one of three main standard rolls: the 125, 150, and 165 types used on organs with those style numbers as well as others. Among the best sellers were the Style 125, 146, 150, and 153. At the top of the line was the 165. In the 1920s the Style 180 was introduced and publicized. However, it remained

64 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 rather spectral in publicity at the time (such as pictures of other instruments being used in their advertising) and in actuality—few people ever saw or heard one.

When beginning in the 1950s and swelling to a strong passion in the 1960s the collecting of band organs became popular with historians, museums, and others the Style 180 remained mysterious. Today, although more is known about the 180s, still many mysteries are wrapped around this enigmatic style—to paraphrase Churchill.

Now, with this article Matthew Caulfield, a long-time researcher and scholar in the field, tells all! In the following pages you will learn more than anyone else ever knew about the 180. Enjoy!

In 1922 the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company came out with its largest band organ, the Style 180 Band Organ, playing its own style 180 roll. The last 180 was made in 1930. Five 180s in all were produced in those nine years, plus one Ruth organ that was converted to the 180 system.

Wurlitzer’s undated advertising purports to show a picture of its “Style No. 180—” (fig. 1). But that is actually a picture of Wurlitzer’s Style 175 band organ. That same picture is reproduced at the top of p. 944 of Q. David Bowers’ Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments, but with a picture of a real 180 below it.

Figure 2: Wurlitzer catalog promotional illustration shows style 175 incorrectly identified by Wurlitzer as style 180

180 Band Organ #3439 The first 180 made was serial #3439, shipped on April 21, 1922, to John E. Gooding, Puritas Springs Park (West Park), Cleveland, Ohio. It is described in the Wurlitzer Shipping Dock ledger as having a WA 236 snare action. That organ was later acquired from Gooding by Tom Champion, Terre Haute, Indiana, who recently related this to Art Reblitz about the acquisition of the instrument:

In 1956, I went to the winter quarters of the Gooding Company, which was at 1300 Norton Avenue to talk to Erwin Heller. Erwin had to go to Puritas Spring Park in Cleveland to finish working on a 180 organ. He had worked on it in the Summer of 1964. The park didn’t want to pay the labor on the 180, which was $3,500.

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 65 Erwin contacted me to see if I was interested in it. I paid the labor bill and got the organ in May, 1956. Moving it out of Gooding’s building is a story in itself, involving several blocks and tackles and a lot of manpower. In 1964 it was sold to the Geisler Pioneer Auto Museum in Murdo, South Dakota.* Before it was sold, I toured Indiana with it. It was used in the 1957 MGM movie, “Some Came Running”, directed by Vincente Minelli and starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley McClain.

Figure 3: #3439 when on display at A. J. Geisler’s Pioneer Auto Museum in Murdo, SD, in the 1960’s As purchased by Jim Wells from Tom Champion, the 180 was missing the crest on its façade. Tom suggested that the crest might be back in the Macedonia, Ohio shop of organ man Erwin Heller, where Tom had left it when he acquired the organ because it didn’t fit in the trailer. Lots of detective work and some good luck resulted in the finding of the missing crest and also the discovery of the famous Heller Hoard (see the MBSI’s Mechanical Music, v. 53, no. 5 (Sept. /Oct. 2007), p. 12-22). Since the crest had suffered from rot during its storage, Jim had carver George W. Long, of Seabreeze Park, carve a replica replacement crest. Mr. Long kept the original crest, but now almost forty years later nobody at Seabreeze knows what happened to it. The last person to know its whereabouts was Merrick Price, GWL’s son-in-law, and he is dead now. The last time I saw the crest, it was in the basement of Merrick’s house, now torn down to make room for expansion of the park’s Water Park area.

In 1994 Jim Wells sold the organ to Jasper Sanfilippo, Barrington Hills, Illinois. The organ went to Jasper via Mike Kitner’s shop for checking and tweaking. Mike must have removed the 165 roll setup from the one tracker bar, because today, in the Sanfilippo collection (inside front cover), both tracker bars play the 180 roll. Art Reblitz has installed a non-invasive MIDI system to supplement the small library of 180 rolls that is with the organ. That library is the totality of known style 180 rolls, and is discussed at the end of this article.

After Jasper acquired the 180, he had artists Jill Bradshaw, Barrington, Ill., and Rosa Patton, Saxapahaw, N.C., repaint the façade. I asked my friend Rosa for her recollection of the process. She replied, “I honestly don’t remember what the Sanfilippo Style 180 organ front looked like when I first saw it. It was my project to restore it. I did it at Jasper Sanfilippo’s shop, and Jill did the landscape paintings while I prepped the surface and painted and gilded the scrollwork around the paintings. If it had any original paint, I would have saved it, so I’m thinking it was repainted when I got to it. I planned the color scheme based on two Wurlitzer 165 fronts that I restored which did have original paint; one being the front at Glen Echo and the other being in a private collection. Robert Ridgeway, the Sanfilippo curator at the time, got some photos for me of a Style 180 that someone had in Texas [the Bies/Boehck 180] and I had a black and white photo from the factory of a Style 180. Jill used the factory photo as reference for subject matter for her landscapes. ------* Dave Bowers sent me a copy of a letter from Tom Champion to him dated Nov. 15, 1963, offering the organ, with trailer, for $4800. Tom states that the organ’s dimensions are 10’8” high, 18’8” wide, 4’ 3 1/2” deep. From the letter’s 1963 date, it appears that the sale to the Geislers was not made until after 1963. ______

In addition to the small library of 180 rolls with the organ (the only 180 rolls known to exist, discussed at the end of this article), the organ now plays from a MIDI system built by Tim Westman and installed by Marty Persky and Jerry Biasella. Art Reblitz has custom-arranged several dozen musical selections for it, with more being arranged as this is

66 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 being written. Art sent me this information about the MIDIfication of #3439 for the technically inclined. The technical specifications and MIDI scale are being kept proprietary: “The couplers in a Wurlitzer 180 band organ bear no musical resemblance to any couplers ever used in a pipe organ. Wurlitzer designed them to eliminate holes in the tracker bar and keep the roll within a practical width, not to add higher or lower ranks or shift ranks from one division to another as in a pipe organ.”

“In Jasper’s 180, the original couplers for the and are connected between the tracker bar tubing and the unit valves. For each coupled note that plays on the tracker bar, the coupler sends the tracker bar signal either to the low octave or high octave unit valve depending on the setting of the coupler. Since the high and low notes each have separate unit valves, we added enough MIDI magnets for all of them, enabling the MIDI system to bypass the couplers for the clarinets and piccolos.”

“The trumpets work differently, with only one unit valve, pneumatic, and chest pallet valve for both high and low notes. The coupling is done in the manifolds directly under the pipes by turning big cutout pouches on or off.”

“There was no way to bypass the trumpet coupler without altering the pipe chest, which I didn’t want to do. Consequently, the MIDI system must play the trumpets just as the roll does.”

“Uncoupling the clarinets and piccolos makes a world of difference in the organ’s musical capability, and I have to live with the trumpet coupler.”

“Since the high trombones and low trumpets form a continuous scale, I have to be careful not to use the trumpet coupler when playing a high melody that runs into the low trumpets, or the trumpet notes will jump up an octave too high.”

(Editor’s note: a picture of this organ today in the Sanfilipo collection appears on the back cover. From The Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments by Arthur A. Reblitz, © 2001. Used with permission.)

180 Band Organ #3612

The next Wurlitzer 180 produced was serial #3612. It is shown in the Shipping Dock ledger as shipped on November 17, 1923, to the Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. (Mr. Mac Cormack [sic]), Chicago, Illinois. It is listed again in the ledger for June 29, 1932, when it was rebuilt (order no. 444) for Frank S. Hagy, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The case color is given as “white,” and these other modifications are noted: Music: Duplex frame; Snare action: WA 238; Chest type: Metal Unit chest; Plays 65-note piano rolls [APP rolls]; No bells; Tracker frame driven by 1/6 H.P. motor.

When the organ was shipped in 1923, Wurlitzer had not developed its 4-in-1 pot-metal valve blocks; so the chest type, although not noted in the ledger, would have been the standard wooden unit-block chest known as the Jameson chest. (See http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/Digests/200810/2008.10.24.04.html for a description of Wurlitzer valve chest designs.) The 1932 conversion to playing APP rolls must have involved replacing the Jameson chest with the latest style of chest using the 4-in-1-valves A 1931 date is shown in Wurlitzer’s Repair ledger, but that is certainly a misprint for 1932, because the entry there for that organ is among the entries for 1932 in proper chronological order. Also, the organ is shown in the Shipping Dock ledger in proper 1932 position with the correct 1932 date. The ultimate fate of serial #3612 is unknown. Tim Trager owns a tracker bar and perhaps some other roll frame parts from a 180 band organ. That may be all that survives of organ #3612.

180 Band Organ #1763

The next organ in chronological order is serial #1763. That organ was a Model 38 Ruth taken in by Wurlitzer for conversion to the 180 system and entered into the Shipping Dock ledger under its original serial number, which was often Wurlitzer’s practice in working on an organ made by some other company. It is shown in the ledger as a “Gebruder,” another Wurlitzer practice where they tended to call German-made organs simply “Gebruders.” This suggests that Wurlitzer workers may not have been as savvy as we are today about European organs. The ledger entry shows that the organ was shipped on April 10, 1924, to Krug Park Amusement Co., Omaha, Nebraska. It had a

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 67 WA 236 snare action, and a notation shows it as a rebuilt “Gebruder,” with special gear to drive the tracker frame; 24 teeth in pinion; 50 teeth in gear. There are no other entries for that organ in Wurlitzer records except for a Repair ledger entry dated 4/10/1924, calling it a 180 Special Band Organ. Order no. 2675. Location: Omaha, Neb. Notation: Remodeled.

Figure 4: #1713 as it now exists in Holland (photo courtesy of Fred Dahlinger)

But Fred Dahlinger, Jr., has completed the story of serial #1713 in an article published in the COAA’s Carousel Organ, no. 53 (October 2012), p. 28. Fred writes a summary of that article: “The organ went from Krug Park to Playland, Houston, Texas, then to Venezuela, and finally to Barcelona, Spain. There it was bought by the Hinzens, the Dutch showmen, who arranged to have Wilhelm Voigt restore it back to the original 96-keyless specification. This included removal of pipes which were installed by Wurlitzer in the physical space originally occupied by the action. Wurlitzer had installed one of their own bell actions behind the bandleader. Voigt removed the 180 apparatus and installed a keyless frame, along with re-construction of altered pipework, such as trombones, and installing a Voigt-style ocarina. In recent years Stefan Fleck has accomplished a nice re- of the organ. I have queried both Voigt and Hinzen about the 180 apparatus and rolls, but neither had any knowledge of them.” Fred also states that the Model 38 Ruth was originally installed by Charles Looff in The Zone, a midway area at the 1915 Pan Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco. It was later relocated to Krug Park with the 4-abreast carousel it played on.

180 Band Organ #3765

The next 180 produced, serial #3765, is entered in the Shipping Dock ledger as 180 Band Organ. White. Shipped April 29, 1925, to Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. (G. Merritt Jones), Ocean Park, California. Music: Duplex frame. Snare action: WA 236. That organ was lost in a fire, of which there were several in the Ocean Park area over the years: in 1908, 1912, 1915, 1920, 1924, 1969-1973. Amusement park historian Jeffrey Stanton has described them here: http://www.westland.net/venicehistory/articles/fire.htm

I contacted Mr. Stanton for any information on the 180 band organ sent to G. Merritt Jones. He replied, “The Ocean Park Pier burned in January 1924 [January 6, to be exact], so that the band organ was likely shipped to replace the lost carousel. The pier reopened in 1926 with a Parker carousel in a building that housed many rides, much like Steeplechase’s Pavilion of Fun at Coney Island. Jones owned the attraction.” Dana Johnson supplied me with a brief biography of George Merritt Jones (1861-1932), real estate investor, and also appended a note saying that Ed Schmidt remembered that Herbert Vincent, who is well-known as the man who maintained Ross Davis’ band organs, looked at the 180 after the fire and said that there was nothing left except a few parts of the roll frames. But because of the number of

68 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 fires that afflicted Santa Monica’s Ocean Park/Venice area, it is impossible today to identify the particular fire in which the Jones 180 was lost.

180 Band Organ #4182

The 180 band organ with serial #4182 has a peculiar history. The Shipping Dock ledger shows it as being walnut, not white, and equipped with swell shutters. It was shipped June 18, 1929, to St. Mary’s Church, Amsterdam, New York. The entry shows that, except for the unusual walnut finish and the swell shutters, it was typical, with a WA 238 snare action, duplex roll frame [playing style 180 rolls], and a unit block chest. My extensive correspondence with St. Mary’s Church revealed nobody there today who had any knowledge of the church having owned a band organ. In fact they were puzzled about the need for one, since the church always had a well-maintained pipe organ for use in its services. Apparently St. Mary’s owned the organ for only a few years before it went to a new owner. It may be that the church owned it for use in some public venue outside the church itself, much as the All Hallows Guild of the Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., owns and uses a Wurlitzer Caliola and an antique carousel for fund-raising events. Another possibility is that the organ was acquired for use as a substitute organ for church services in the 1930’s while the church’s 38-rank organ was out of service for rebuilding, a less likely possibility, all things considered.

Figure 5: #4182 as it exists in Nevada City, MT

Serial #4182 appears again in the Shipping Dock ledger as shipped on November 11, 1936, to Bells [i.e. Bell’s] Rink, Fort Wayne, Indiana. The only changes noted from the specifications in the St. Mary’s entry above are “Chest type: WA 100 FP” and a notation “Plays 65 note piano rolls [i.e. APP rolls]; $250.00.” Another ledger entry four months later shows that the organ was shipped on March 22, 1937, to John L. Bell, Fort Wayne, Indiana, the modifications noted being “16 ft. Bordon pipes; keyboard; plays automatic piano rolls.” A Repair ledger entry for the same date shows that the order no. was 105484. Bell’s Skating Rink still operates today in Fort Wayne; but my letter to the present owner went unanswered. In an interview published in the New Haven (Indiana) Bulletin (http://www.newhavenbulletin.com/?p=11598), owner John Dunlap is quoted as saying, “Of course, the music was different back then, too. Back in the days of dress codes and Flintstone skates, Bell’s Skating Rink didn’t have a live DJ during open skate; it actually had an organ with brass pipes and big tubes. An organist would play live music for the skaters back then as opposed to the music on CD’s that are played these days. My Dad sold that organ for $800. I wish we still had it, it’d be worth a fortune!”

Somehow, serial #4182 seems to have found its way to S.H. Cargill in New York City, from whom Senator Charles Bovey purchased it for $900 in the early 1950s, according to information recorded in a cryptic little notebook kept by the Senator.

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 69 Bovey moved it to the Music Hall in his Nevada City, Montana, Restorations, where it remains incomplete today as pictured here (figs. 5-7). The Bovey Restorations in Virginia City and Nevada City are now owned by the State of Montana. Charlie Bovey related to Art Reblitz that the trumpets and trombones were missing and that Ozzie Wurdeman replaced them with the ones shown here. On the other hand, Tom Wurdeman, who was also present when the organ was moved to Nevada City, remembers the current pipework being what was in the organ when Bovey acquired it. Organ brass tended to go missing, especially during wartime, as it became more valuable as scrap metal. The largest bass pipes were once mitered to fit inside the case, but they were unmitered and made to stand up straight so that they protrude through a hole in the top of the case today. The position of the keyboard suggests that the organ, when at Bell’s Skating Rink, might have been elevated on a platform or positioned in a balcony over the skating rink, since to play it now would require lying on the floor.

Figure 7: Side view of #4182 showing keyboard

Figure 6: Additional view of #4182 in the Nevada City Music Hall

180 Band Organ #4275

The last 180 band organ manufactured is serial #4275, listed in the Shipping Dock ledger as a white organ, shipped December 30, 1930, to Mrs. Nellie Conrad, Waukegan, Illinois. Music: Duplex frame. Snare action: WA 238. Chest type: Metal unit chest. Notations: OK/WHW 7/15/31.** [WHW are the initials of manager Walter H. Wendell]. It appears in the ledger five years later as shipped August 12, 1935, to Hagy Bros., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, without any changes in the specifications. In 1937 it was remodeled for Hagy Bros. to play 65 note piano rolls [APP rolls] and shipped to them April 23, 1937. ------** I realize that Wendell’s OK is dated more than a half year after the supposed shipping date of the organ. Such occasional dating conflicts are found in the ledgers, and cannot always be explained. ------There is an entry in the Serial ledger for a #4375 (order no. 57627, 8/14/1935, location: Harrisburg, Pa., with a notation “rebuilt”; but this probably a serial number mistake for #4275.

Some time before 1946, serial #4275 was acquired by Bob Long of Eldridge Park, Elmira, N.Y. It was originally used as the park’s stage organ, until it went into storage, where it spent some years until it came to the notice of Hathaway & Bowers. Dave Bowers was friends with the late Harvey Roehl, of Vestal, N.Y., who I was told tipped Dave off to the existence of the organ. The second picture on p. 944 of Bowers’ Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments, referenced in the second paragraph of this article, shows serial #4275 when Dave Bowers owned it. It was purchased from Hathaway & Bowers by Judge Roy Hofheinz of Houston, Texas, and moved to his Astroworld Hotel in that city. In

70 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 June 1974 the Hofheinz collection was auctioned by Sotheby Parke Bernet Galleries, N.Y., and the 180 band organ was purchased on June 8, 1974, as lot #19 by Alan Bies (figs. 8, 9, 10).

Figure 8: #4275 at auction in Sotheby's, June, 1974 Figure 9: #4275 at auction in Sotheby's, June 1974

Figure 10: #4275 as it is today. (Photo courtesy, “The American Carousel Organ” by Ron Bopp)

The organ remains in the Alan Bies/Steve Boehck collection, Houston, Tex., playing APP rolls and equipped with a MIDI player, as well. Bill Klinger reports, “Alan and Steve had me build two new sets of pipes for their 180. When it was at the Wurlitzer factory for a rebuild, they removed the brass and clarinet. The first revision was to add the piccolo to the melody. It is 28 notes, three more than original. The clarinet was added back over a year ago. There was space in front of the center section to add the pipes almost where they originally resided. Wayne Holton has been making arrangements for the MIDI player that include the extra notes.”

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 71 Wurlitzer Style 180 Band Organ Rolls

With only five band organs, plus the one conversion, manufactured to play the style 180 roll, Wurlitzer’s 180 roll business was certainly never a financial success. By 1937, there can have been only one customer for 180 style rolls, all the other then-existing 180 band organs having been converted to playing APP rolls. I have copies of Wurlitzer’s Monthly Roll Bulletins, wherein they announced their new roll releases, from January 1922 to August 1925, and in not one of them is there a listing for a style 180 roll. It may be that, given the tiny market for 180 rolls, it was easier for the company to announce its 180 releases directly to its five potential customers via labels pasted on penny postcards, a system that Wurlitzer eventually used for all their music rolls, abandoning the printing and mailing of Monthly Roll Bulletins. I have copies, from the Smithsonian Institution’s Wurlitzer archives, of an inventory list of various types of rolls that the company manufactured. The inventory must have been prepared in the mid-1940s for some unknown purpose. It consists merely of sheets with headings for the various types of rolls, e.g. “Pianino Rolls,” “65 Note-5 pc.,” “Autograph,” each followed by columns of roll numbers, nothing more. The sheet captioned “180 Band Organ” has these numbers: 15076, 15077, 15078, 15079, 15080, 15081, 15082. Roll 15076 was probably made in 1930; so the other six must have been made in 1931 and later. That is the extent of our information about Wurlitzer 180 roll production. Specifications for the style 180 scale can be seen on p. 395 of Art Reblitz’s “The Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments.” Dana Johnson also has some original Wurlitzer documents detailing the 180 scale and the Caliola/APP conversion. The only known extant 180 rolls, original or copied, are now with the Sanfilippo organ. I have recorded all of those rolls when they were owned by Jim Wells, except for one roll which escaped my notice, roll 15050. A list of the rolls and their contents can be seen here on my website: http://wurlitzer-rolls.com/180list.html. It seems clear from evidence on the rolls that all style 180 rolls had no more than eight tunes, probably to minimize the losses Wurlitzer suffered in its 180 venture, a venture that never should have been started.

Some Remarks About Wurlitzer Ledger Data

Terry Hathaway, Dana Johnson, and other who have studied and processed the reams of data in Wurlitzer factory records. Their work has brought clarity to most of the part numbers or phrases used in the entries for the 180 band organs described above. The WA 236 and the WA 238 snare drum actions differ in the type of valve used. The WA 236 used wooden valve blocks like those used in the Jameson chest. The WA 238 used one metal 4-in-1 valve. Early 180’s were equipped with Jameson valve chests (noted in the ledger entries as either “unit block chest” or as “WA 100 FP” chest). After Wurlitzer production went to the use of pot-metal 4-in-1 valves instead of wooden valve blocks (unit blocks), their 180’s are shown as having “metal unit chest.” For the Jameson chest, see my article in the COAA’s Carousel Organ, issue #38 (April 2008), p. 21. The one ledger notation that isn’t well pinned down by research done by those who have studied the Wurlitzer records is what Wurlitzer’s color notations refer to. That may be because the employees who kept those records over the decades were not consistent in their usage. Does the color “white” in the entries above refer to the case color or the façade color? What does the notation “walnut” for organ #4182 mean? A perusal of ledger entries for other styles of Wurlitzer band organs over the decades show enough variation in terminology to make Wurlitzer usage very uncertain. Early colors are mostly white oak, golden oak, silver grey, and mahogany. Up until 1909, no colors were noted in the ledgers. White comes on the scene later and begins to predominate by 1920. With Wurlitzer’s introduction of the Caliola, green begins to appear. Credits: Wurlitzer ledger data come from Art Reblitz’ and Terry Hathaway’s Mechanical Music Press website, where Terry has transcribed the contents of the various Wurlitzer band organ ledgers and made the data available in useful sort orders. Expanding on those data is information generously provided by Alan Bies/Steve Boehck, Q. David Bowers, Tom Burhyte (Eldridge Park), Fred Dahlinger, Jr., Dana Johnson, Bill Klinger, Art Reblitz, Jeffrey Stanton (Venice, Calif.), and St. Mary’s Church (Kathy Farquhar, Darren Peconie, Robert Going).

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About the author: Matthew Caulfield’s interest in Wurlitzer band organ music developed during World War II from listening to the Wurlitzer 165 at Seabreeze Park. While in college and a few years after, he worked at the park for George W. Long, becoming the manager of the park’s food operation. Moving to Washington, D.C., in 1962 to become a cataloger at the Library of Congress, eventually specializing in rare book cataloging, he researched and cataloged all known Wurlitzer 165 band organ rolls. On retirement in 1997, he returned to Rochester to resume his association with Seabreeze and the fourth generation of the Long family. He can be reached at [email protected].

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72 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 LINK STYLE A ORCHESTRION ACQUISITION

By Glenn S. Thomas

My love of Link coin-operated pianos dates back to my youth on the West Coast when I first saw one. Since Link pianos were made in Binghamton, NY, not too many made it all the way to the West Coast, with most in the Eastern half of the country. Nevertheless, my love of great musical arrangements led me to both Link and Wurlitzer pianos whose arrangements I found quite different, unique, and musically more creative than the more common QRS masters that were the predominant roll on Clark and Automatic rolls on A and G roll machines. Link rolls were almost all arranged on a drafting board by company arranger Ray Deyo who used sheet music, recordings, and his own creativity to crank out arrangements that were quite distinctive and pure honky-tonk in their sound. He was very prolific turning out hundreds of style 2E rolls for Link pianos. Fortunately, many survive and have been recut, first by Ed Freyer and later Don Rand. The endless music rolls were also a moment of early wonder, never requiring a re-roll, but I would later admit after a Link acquisition, the time consuming process in a roll change almost offset the great music. My first Link was a model 2E, a common model with no keyboard, playing piano, mandolin, and repeating , acquired directly from Rod’s Roadhouse Restaurant in Morristown, NJ where it entertained patrons for over 40 years. After restoration, I became an even greater devotee of wonderful Link music. Link also made a larger keyboard style orchestrion, playing pipes and percussion using a different style Link “A” roll (not to be confused with the rewind style A rolls for basic coin pianos made by Clark, Automatic, and Capitol). Fewer of these pianos were made, and even fewer survive. I became aware of one that had gone through a flood, had some residual damage and issues, was otherwise complete, and had been made playable by an Eastern restorer for sale. While the piano played, its condition and residual damage would clearly require major surgery to bring it back to proper life. After consulting with master restorer Paul Manganaro and agreeing what and how needed to be done, I negotiated the purchase. The almost insurmountable problem was the flood caused major structural damage to the sounding board, bowing and fracturing the plate. The plate was repaired while slowly being tensioned and bolted to ensure integrity of the repair. Since the plate was not true, initial tuning was C=B minus 30 rather than A=440. In order to set up the pipes correctly, they had to be moved up a note, dropping a pipe at the treble end and adding one at the bass end. Even so, the instrument tuning was questionable, and trying to tension and tune the strings further on the repaired plate could produce a nasty surprise. The best although unlikely solution was to find another, identical gutted instrument using the same piano where the board and plate could be used as a donor. Link, as did many other coin piano manufacturers used common pianos from a few manufacturers such as Haddorff, of Rockford, Illinois. Thus began a yearlong, countrywide search through ads, online, enthusiast publications, and word of mouth to find an appropriate donor piano. Several leads were offered, pursued, and abandoned due to inaccuracy or incompatibility. Just when the all hope appeared to wane, a contact in Seattle, Washington told me he thought he had seen a gutted Link upright in an antique shop in Tacoma, Washington. After several phone calls, measurements, specifications, and pictures were exchanged, the shop indeed had a gutted Link A orchestrion, no player mechanism, but a similar case, different art glass, and an identical board and plate! A deal was struck and this piano began its journey across the country. Restorer Paul Manganaro kept the piano but I acquired the art glass front. The alternate “donor” art glass panel now sits just above the restored piano as a metaphor for the donor process that brought the piano back to life. The style “Link A” music rolls this piano plays are identical to the Link 2E rolls except for the orchestration. The pipes and percussion are used quite differently by arranger Deyo than one would be used to hearing on other types of rolls. The violin pipes are metal, while the flute pipes are wood. Here is the instrumentation and layout: 1. Soft expression off 2. Soft expression on 3. Blank 4. Sustaining pedal

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 73 5. 6. Left snare drum beater 7. Center snare drum beater 8. Right snare drum beater 9. Triangle 10. Tom-tom 11. Right wood block beater 12. Left wood block beater 13. Violin pipes on 14. Violin and flute pipes off 15. Flute pipes on 16. (or triangle) 17. Lowest playing note 65. Highest playing note 66. Coin trip 67. Mandolin on 68. Mandolin off 69. Blank 70. Blank Compared to the hundreds of great Style RX rolls produced by Link, only about 300 Style A rolls were made. About 60 are known to survive, and about 47 have been recut by Ed Freyer and Don Rand. I am always searching for Link rolls of any type!

LINK STYLE A ORCHESTRION RESTORATION

By Paul Manganaro

Link pianos hold a special place in the hearts of collectors. The year was 1974, I was eighteen years old when I first visited Ted Spangenburg’s shop, Player Piano Headquarters in Boonton, New Jersey. There, in the corner of his showroom, was a cabinet model 2-E with reiterating . I had never heard a Link and I loved the sound. I thought there was something magical about the Link reiterating xylophone. Not only was the music great, but I was mesmerized watching the continuous roll. When the name Link is mentioned, most collectors think of the cabinet style 2-E with xylophone. Unfortunately, keyboard Links exist in very few numbers. In the New York area, many keyboard Link orchestrions have been pieced back together after having been gutted. It is very unusual to find a complete keyboard Link of any model in this part of the country. One day, I received a call from collector Glenn Thomas asking if I would inspect his latest acquisition, a Link model A. It was an exciting opportunity to be able to work on such a rare orchestrion. My first impression of Glenn’s Link was that it was a fine-looking piano. The cabinet had been refinished well and the impressive stained glass front was in very good condition. The piano played somewhat but was out of tune. The player mechanism was complete and was all original to the piano. The piano had a recent restoration including restringing, hammers and dampers and rebuilding of the player mechanism. Glenn explained that the piano was out of tune due to a crack in the plate (). At this time we believed the plate had fractured as a result of a flood some decades ago that caused major damage to the sounding board, bowing the structure of posts comprising the piano back. The plate had been poorly repaired by bolting a metal plate in place over the crack in one spot. A second area looked as though someone tried to weld the plate in place. Since the plate was broken, initial tuning was C=B minus 30 rather than A=440. In other words, the tuning was one step flat. In order to tune the pipes to the flat piano, they had to be moved up a note, dropping a pipe at the treble end and introducing a pipe from another source at the bass end. I refused to tune the piano due to the broken plate. I felt it would be dangerous to do so. After looking the work over I judged the recent restoration of both the piano and player mechanism to be of very poor quality. For example, the newly rebuilt player needed an auxiliary suction box to power the mechanism. The newly 74 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 installed hammers were very crooked. And, the player mechanism had silicon sealer coating many joints, just to mention a few defects. I explained that I was not willing to work with the cracked plate. It is my belief that a welded plate could crack after new strings are brought up to pitch. After consulting with Glenn, we agreed on an approach. The best solution was to find another, identical plate as a substitute, rather than trying to repair the present broken plate. (Photo 1) (See Glenn’s companion article on the acquisition of a “donor” piano). After inspecting the gutted Link I found that the back structure was solid and the sounding board was also in good condition. So I decided it was best to use not only the plate, but the entire back as well. I’ve split the sides from dozens of upright players. In my Photo 1: With player mechanism, piano action, and strings removed, the early years as a restorer I removed many upright player upper section of the plate was totally broken away (not shown in photo) pianos from basements. Typically, an old player would be from the main casting relegated to the basement in the 1950s or ‘60s. Sometime later the homeowner would remodel the basement by finishing the ceiling or narrowing the doorway. The only way to remove pianos in this situation was to dismantle the entire piano and split the sides off. The backs with the plate and strings intact could be fit through a doorway or up a staircase diagonally. Once in the shop, the sides were glued back on and the pianos reassembled. In the 1970s and ‘80s, oak player pianos were in great demand. Oak players represented about one percent of the players in existence and were very hard to buy. At that time I ended up with twin player pianos in my shop. One was oak with a cracked harp; the other was mahogany with a good harp. I removed both backs and installed the back with the good harp into the oak cabinet. This was the only experience I had switching backs from one piano to another. So the process began. Splitting the sides from the donor Link was easy. Putty knives were hammered in between the back structure and the sides. Working from the bottom, where moisture typically affects the glue joints on many old uprights, wedges were inserted from bottom to top until the sides were forced from the structure Removing the back structure from the complete Link was not as carefree. The complete Link had been refinished, and so extra care had to be taken to prevent damage to the finish. Sometimes, splitting the sides off is not a neat and clean process. If the old glue joints have not deteriorated, the sides can break during removal and destroy the veneer on the cabinet’s exterior. But all went well. In a short time I had removed the backs from both pianos. I reused as much of the donor piano as possible. It was like processing a whale. Local collector Bart Off from Mertztown, Pennsylvania planed down the quartered oak sides and used them to make replacement doors for a Seeburg KT Special. I used the piano action and kick board in a different Link piano I was restoring. The coin slot went to yet another collector. And Glenn hung the art-glass panel just above the restored piano as a reminder of the process that brought his Link A piano back to life. The original back with the broken plate was disassembled. The plate was sold to a scrapyard, the old board was saved for sounding-board shims and the structure was sawed apart for firewood. During this process I discovered the true reason for the broken plate. An inexperienced worker had replaced the pinblock without any knowledge of piano construction. The average piano contains approximately 250 strings, with each string exerting about 100 pounds of force. This works out to about twelve tons of force. The strings, which are hitched to the bottom edge of the plate, force the top edge of the plate up against the lower edge of the pinblock. Let’s estimate the average weight of an upright player piano at 800 pounds. Now imagine stacking thirty-two pianos one on top of another and then balancing the entire stack on a single point on a piano plate. The concentrated force can easily crack a plate in the same way as a diamond cutter would split a diamond with a chisel in the old days. It is the responsibility of the restorer to fit the pinblock properly so its lower edge makes equal contact across the entire width of the upper plate in order to distribute the tons of force. In this case there was no consideration for fitting the pinblock and the twelve tons of force most likely rested on a single point somewhere along the top edge of the plate. So carelessness had brought this rare piano close to destruction. (Photo 2)

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 75 After my shop was cleaned of all the spare parts and debris, the donor back was shipped off to a local piano rebuilder. The old pinblock was replaced and faced with bird’s-eye maple veneer to match the original. The old sounding board was repaired and finished. The plate was repainted and finally the back was restrung. After the restored back was returned to my shop I temporarily clamped the sides of the finished cabinet in place. (Photo 3) To my surprise I was not able to perfectly line up the sides of the complete Link to the donor back. There were variations to the contours in both the back and the piano sides. To my way of thinking, the sides of the piano should be perfect rectangles and the back of the piano should be perfectly squared. A factory jig for gluing would simply line these surfaces up. I’ve come to believe that most piano factories glued the sides in place and then sanded the back of the piano, giving a unique contour to Photo 2: Donor back being fitted for a new pinblock. The old pin- each piano. If you run your hand along the back of any old block has been sawed away. Birds-eye maple veneer shown strewn upright you’ll find a perfect alignment of the sides to the back in across the plate will be glued to the new pinblock for show every case. Also, you will never find excess glue along the joint. Perhaps some reader can shed light on this process. If the sides of the piano are not aligned well, the cabinet parts such as the front doors and kickboard will not fit properly. I used a laser leveler to line up the front edges of the sides with one another. I installed the keybed and the toeboard (or pedal board) to prevent the sides from being glued in pigeon toed or skewed outward. Mounting the leveler on a stable surface, I ran the red laser light along the front edge of one of the sides, making slight adjustments of the position of the sides until the laser light shone equally on the front edges of both sides, top to bottom. I drilled two index holes from the inside, through the outer back posts and into the sides to mark their exact positions. One side at a time was glued in place. Pins were temporarily inserted into the newly drilled index holes to position each side. There was some apprehension on my part as to whether the piano action and keyboard would line up to the strings. The donor back was in fact an exact duplicate of the original so in the end everything lined up perfectly. Photo 3: Sides temporarily clamped in position after adjusting the alignment. The keyboard and toe board in place to keep the sides parallel front to back. Now it was time to begin the mechanical restoration. The piano action and keys needed extensive work. New key tops were installed. Front key bushings, which had been installed recently, had to be replaced due to poor workmanship. The center key bushings were in such terrible condition that I replaced the entire center wooden bushing button with a new one. That was a first for me. All the felt and action cloth on the piano action was replaced, including some bushings. New hammers, shanks, butts, and dampers were also installed. Link uprights have a pneumatic bass octave coupler located on the back of the piano action. Link stacks are located below the keybed. When a pneumatic closes, a poppet pushes up on the back of the key itself. A wooden block attached to the back of a piano sticker lifts a pallet on the Photo 4: Octave coupler (unrestored) showing twelve spring-loaded coupler. The pallet opens a port that triggers a pneumatic pallet valves. These pallets are activated by blocks screwed to the backs for a bass note one octave lower. So instead of one note of base stickers. Signal tubing connects to valves one octave lower.

76 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 playing, an octave sounds. The bass octave coupler is always in use. This piano also has an octave coupler in the treble as shown (photo 4). The treble octave coupler is hinged. A pneumatic tied to the flute pipe on/off pneumatic tilts the coupler out of the way when the flute pipes are called for. This allows the soft melody of the flute pipes to be heard over the sound of the piano for a solo effect - a very musical feature not found on all Link model A’s. The piano action was installed and regulated (photo 5). The range of the two octave couplers located on the back of the piano action have been identified. Photo 5: Piano action installed showing range of bass and treble octave couplers The former restorer discarded the vacuum reservoir located on the back of the piano to use the space to install an auxiliary suction box. The first step in the restoration of the pneumatic components was to remove the auxiliary suction box and construct a copy of the reservoir. Link stacks use individual units for each playing note consisting of a pneumatic, pouch, and valve. This system made for easy servicing in the field when the pianos were new. These units must be split apart in order to replace the pouches (photo 6). The pouches are located in the top surface of the upper pneumatic leaf. The previous restorer had recovered the pneumatic units, replaced the pouches, and rebuilt the valves - all to very poor standards. Extra expense went into this restoration to undo damage done by the restorer (photo 7). After the top valve section is split away from the lower pneumatic component the individual wood pieces are sanded and repaired. It was necessary to make a few units from scratch to replace ones that were too damaged to repair. Interior channels and ports were shellacked for Photo 6: Top valve blocks split away from lower pneumatic boards airtightness. New pouches made from pneumatic cloth were glued in place. A jig was used to give each new pouch exactly the same depth. The few Link pianos I’ve restored have always used factory pneumatic cloth pouches rather than leather. There is a very long run of tracker tubing leading from the tracker bar, down along the right side of the piano, and then over to the stack. Link probably wanted the signal to be as sure as possible without having to contend with variation of porosity in the pouches. The present quality of imported key pneumatic cloth makes it possible to install pneumatic cloth pouches. After the pouches are installed, the top valve block is glued to the upper pneumatic leaf containing the pouch (photo 8). The clamping must be done with positive pressure to achieve a wood-to-wood glue joint with the surface around the pouch (photo 9). A homemade jig is used to hold the two leaves of the pneumatic at a consistent span while recovering. Masking tape around the valve block keeps the block free of glue during recovering. The valve buttons (photo 9) are resurfaced on sandpaper taped to ¼” thick glass. These buttons appear to be simple but require close attention when adjusting. Valve travel is set by screwing the lower valve button up and down on the threaded rod (photo 10). This adjustment either increases or decreases valve travel. However, when the valve travel is Photo 7: Old pneumatic boards have been cleaned and repaired. New pneumatic cloth pouches with lifter disks are in place. The valve adjusted in this manner, the leather nut on the end of the blocks are to be glued to the top of these pouch boards threaded rod also moves closer to or farther away from the pouch. So, after setting the valve travel, the leather nut on

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 77 Photo 8: Valve block clamped to top of pneumatic board for gluing, Photo 9: Key pneumatics showing masking tape temporarily in place to with pouch sandwiched in between. Pony clamps are double prevent hot glue from getting on the valve block clamps that exert positive pressure on the glue joint

Photo 10: Valve button size in relation to nickel. The valve button is resting on sandpaper taped to glass that is used for resurfacing wooden valve disks Photo 11: Pump boards cleaned and ready for recovering. Index lines in pencil mark the relative position of the three boards. Grid lines mark the position of the pump boards as they are to be glued to the leather covering. Stiffeners shown in top of photo. Two sets of these boards make up the reciprocating pump

Photo 12: Lower action of orchestrion completed showing from left Photo 13: Underside of pipe chest showing pallets. Pallets are triggered to right: pipe pressure distributor (left of electric motor, pipe by wood blocks screwed to the front of the piano action stickers. Signal pressure reservoir, idler wheel for flat belt (in front of reservoir), tubes open ports underneath pouches in each side of the pipe chest. reciprocating pump, roll speed control. Notice there are two signal tubes per pallet, one for each rank

78 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 the end of the threaded rod must be adjusted to be in proper regulation with respect to the pouch. Link pumps are reciprocating with a set of bellows on each side of the crankshaft. Although all the castings are identical from one pump to another, I have found Link pumps to be of two different sizes. Link pumps, being relatively small are required to supply vacuum for the stack, controls and percussion while also providing pressure for two ranks of pipes. This design doesn’t allow any room for error. This pump was a little bigger than a couple of other pumps I compared it to. Care must be taken to mark the pneumatic boards of the pump after stripping off the covering. It’s easy to mix up the four outer movable leaves. Each set of boards must be marked to keep the correct boards oriented to one another (photo 11). The stiffeners and pump coverings are made from leather. I enlarged the footprint of each of the stiffeners to increase the efficiency of the pump. Also, I used two layers of leather to imitate the original thickness of leather covering used by Link. If the leather is too thin it will pulse between cycles, resulting in loss of power. The end result was a pump with more than enough power to supply this large orchestrion (photo 12). The Link reservoirs are always at full capacity no matter how many notes are called for. To add to the authenticity, a flat belt pulley was made for the motor and a flat belt of synthetic material was installed. Notice the pressure supply tube from the bottom of the pump to the pressure reservoir. Pressure is then supplied to the pipe chest distributor and sent via two supply tubes above the keybed to each side of the pipe chest. There are three vacuum supply tubes on top of the pump. The supply tube in the right in the back goes through a hole in the sound board to the vacuum reservoir. The tube in the right front supplies the stack and the third tube goes left and then up to the top half of the piano. This tube supplies a valve chest located on top of the pinblock as well as supplying percussive instruments. The pipe chest is fairly simple. Pallets are triggered by blocks attached to the piano action stickers (photo 13). Each pallet opens two ports: one for the flute pipe pouch and one for the violin pipe. A lock and cancel unit in the bottom of the piano sends pressure to each side of the pipe chest. No supply means no pipes play. Either side may be supplied to play either the flute pipes or violin, or both sides can be supplied to play both ranks at the same time. There are 28 wooden and 28 metal orchestral violins. When pressure is introduced to the pipe chest and the pallet is closed (photo 14), a spring holds a valve disc up against the chamber ceiling (valve not shown), and the threaded valve stem connected to the valve disc holds the pouch up. When the pallet is opened, atmospheric pressure is introduced to the underside of the pouch. The pouch is then forced closed, pulling the valve away from the ceiling and allowing pressure through the port and into the pipe. A separate valve box housing nine valves is stationed on top of the pinblock. Two valves are used to activate the mandolin lock and cancel pneumatics and the others operate percussive instruments. A woodblock with two beaters is mounted behind the tambourine. The use of two beaters is very musical and adds a distinct 1920s sound. The tambourine has two pneumatic components. A large pneumatic pulls the tambourine to one side and releases quickly to make the metal shakers sound. A second smaller pneumatic operates a beater that thumps against the tambourine head for a tom-tom. The tom-tom is also Photo 14: Pipe chest interior showing division very musical (photo 15). It’s fun to watch the beater operate while it’s moving between the two sets of pouches and bleeds. along with the shaking of the tambourine. The center divider separates the two ranks of pipes. Top of photo shows two ports that The snare drum is a fairly complex unit containing five valves (photo 16). One supply pressure to each rank valve operates the triangle mounted on the right side of the snare drum unit. Three valves operate each of the three pneumatic snare beaters. Three separate holes in the tracker bar are used alter- nately to control the drum beaters for a reiterating sound. Each snare beater activates one of three pallets. When any one of the pallets is lifted, a signal triggers the fifth valve. This fifth valve activates a rectangular pneumatic that lifts a mute strip away from the snare so the drum can sound. The Link model A is a very musical orchestrion. The musical arrangements along with the programing of the percussion make this one of the best-sounding American coin pianos. I’m glad I was given the opportunity to restore it. The project certainly was well worth all the effort. I consider it a treat to hear every time I visit Glenn’s collection. You may see/hear a video of this instrument playing “Crazy Words, Crazy Tune” at: http://youtu.be/j1r11Vn7VO8

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 79 Photo 16: Snare drum, triangle, and a few violin pipes

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You may visit Paul’s website http://antiquemechanicalrestorations.com to see more of his restoration work.

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REPAIRING / REPLACING PIANO ROLL LEADERS

By Douglas Heckrotte

Repairing original rolls is a task that many of us have to do. Occasionally, a usable repair to the leader is aesthetically unpleasing. I concocted the following approach and wrote a terse description of it for the Mechanical Music Digest (MMD). I have made my files available for others’ use.

Ideally, a repaired or replaced leader should look ‘original’: it should match in color and in the printed information. It should not ruin the roll for subsequent repair. And, even without ready access to matching materials and stenciled printing, it should be reasonably easy to do. Any solution involves the following basic steps: create a ‘master’ from which to create replacement leaders with the manufacturer’s decorative ‘frame’, add the roll-specific text, print the replacement leader, and splice it to the roll. Before access to computers, one could make a wood block or silk screen to print the decorative frame and set up lines of type to print the text. Life is obviously too short and here is a way to use your computer, scanner and printer. Ideally, you have easy access to a color scanner which will accommodate the 11 ¼” width of most rolls; if not, services like Staples can scan for you in a useful format. You will need photo handling software which will allow you to scale images accurately and add text in appropriate size, font and color. Figure 1: Raw scan Adobe Photoshop and Autodesk’s AutoCAD

80 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 will do it; Microsoft Word ought to but there are limitations that I was not able to overcome. And, ideally, you will need easy access to a color printer which will handle 11 1/4 “wide images; again, Staples or similar service would do.

Preparing the master. I scanned a clean roll whose decorative frame was the same as the damaged roll - Ampico had at least three frames – on my 11x17 printer, copier, scanner, and fax. The image was saved in .jpg format and included a piece of the roll and the frame with excess width but very little length. This is usable but of course any defects in the edges, a slightly unsquared image versus the potential print, and the limitation of size make a final print less usable and less perfect. Figure 1 is a screenshot of the ‘raw scan’. Such a scan will open in Microsoft Office Picture Manager, Microsoft Paint and of course in Photoshop. It can also be ‘inserted’ into an AutoCAD.dwg and a Microsoft Word .docx. The raw scan will open to full scale in Photoshop and can be verified using Photoshop’s ruler and grid features. The scan can be scaled to size in AutoCAD but it’s not possible to do so accurately in Word. Figure 2 is the finished master in Photoshop as seen with the ruler and grid.

To clean up the scan to make your master, save a copy (in case you goof!) and open it in Photoshop. Rotate the image by whatever degree needed until it’s square with Photoshop’s idea of square. Resize the ‘canvas’ Figure 2: Master with grid and ruler

Figure 3: Master with patches Figure 4: Prepared master layers shown so that there’s room to work around the image; don’t change the image size. Now, it’s time to erase the clean roll’s roll-specific text and any defects. Using Photoshop’s rectangle or random shape tool, enclose a piece of clean background paper and ‘copy’ it; then ‘paste’ a number of pieces. The edge of the shape can be made ‘fuzzy’ so that sharp edges are better concealed. Each time you paste something in Photoshop, it goes on a separate, new ‘layer’. These layers can be thought of as clear pieces of plastic with the piece of paper on it that you copied Figure 3 is the master with a couple pieces of paper copied onto the canvas to one side of the image. You can move the piece of paper wherever you wish if the layer it is on is active. The piece in Figure 3 with the bounding box is ready to be moved. Figure 4 shows the master with the layer control window open. Move your pieces of paper until all defects in the original scan are covered, the edges of the roll widened past the scanned edges and the roll-specific text covered. What you’ll have now is the original base layer, the scanned image, and a stack of layers each with a piece of paper on them. Use the ‘flatten’ command and all these layers can be collapsed down onto the scanned image.

Now, spend some frustrating time learning to draw aiming points so that you can cut your finished print to the correct size and with its pointed tab end. Use the line drawing tool and set the line widths so that they will show on the print; use the rulers and grid to be accurate. Set the aiming points outside the intended roll edges so that they will be cut off and not show. You can see my aiming points on Figure 5 as well as several of the others; there are four corners, the centerline of the roll at the top, and the point at the tab end. Collapse all these lines, which will be on separate new layers, onto one layer separate from the base layer.

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 81 You now have a clean image with defects removed, roll edges defined and the decorative frame; it’s time to add roll-specific text. My version of Photoshop does not allow easy identification of fonts, however the same fonts are to be found in Microsoft Word and you can also find fonts online. Open a new Word .doc and find some fonts. For my Ampico master I felt that ‘Castellar’ is pretty close for “AMPICO” and fonts for the other original texts; I felt that Arial is suitable for the roll number and Times New Roman for other information. Figure 7 shows a Word document that I used for sampling fonts. Go back into Photoshop and use the ‘text’ command to add text in the desired font and at the desired size.

Each piece of text will be on its own layer and can be moved appropriately. You cannot set the ‘character spacing’ or the kerning in my version of Photoshop. The color of the text should match the frame. Highlight your first piece of text and set its color; subsequent pieces of text will default to the same color. I found that R: 15, G: 92, and B: 86 is a pretty close match. Keep the master, the aiming point, and all the separate pieces of text on their own layers. ‘Save as’ a roll-specific named file, if you wish. The roll-specific text can be updated for the next roll.

Ready to print a repair leader. Figure 6 shows my printer control window; it’s set to scale to Figure 5: Prepared master 100%, landscape, and narrow margin tabloid.

Figure 6: The print window Figure 7: Word document Print it, cut to the aiming points, cut the roll square, and use archival document tape on both faces of the roll. Add the tab and you’re ready to go.

Clearly, the same effort will work for other brands of roll.

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About the author: Douglas Heckrotte is a retired architect in Philadelphia, PA. His interest in player pianos dates from when he was about 12 when he repaired a pumper player to operation. Roll collecting grew to several hundred rolls. College, other hobbies, and a working life intervened until he acquired a 1920 6’4 Knabe Ampico grand. The Ampico collection is now over 800 recordings.

Heckrotte spends a great deal of time restoring his and his wife’s 1857 house, several Flying Dutchman sailing dinghies, and their 1970 North East 38 cruising sailboat. He can be described as a foolishly fearless and intrepid do-it-yourselfer and woodchuck; there is nothing that he’s smart enough not to do (except, perhaps, rebuild the Ampico himself!). He can be reached at [email protected].

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82 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 FACADE a la MODE

By Kenneth E. Hodge

My 1997 Pell Harmonette Monkey Organ (Fig. 1) has been a great performer for nearly 16 years. For some time I’ve wished I could enhance its boxy persona with a slightly wider and painted wood facade. Some owners of small monkey organs paint and/or ornament the front of their instruments but I did not want to paint or cut up my instrument’s lovely hand-veneered case. Another constraint was that the circular path of my hand on the side-mounted crank would extend beyond the plane of “wings” of any wider facade affixed to the front of the organ. One solution - reducing the crank length by about 2” – was unwise since the present size crank feels ergonomically correct and shouldn’t be tinkered with. This article presents the results of a design concept I explored to solve my dilemma. Application to similar small monkey organs should be possible. In short, I designed and built an easily removable “porch” for the front of the organ, the face (facade) of which extends out 2” from the Harmonette’s front surface. This provides cranking clearance and wings which extend laterally for a wider facade. Fig. 2 shows the result with a typical painted wood facade design I used to establish the shape and size of the addition to my instrument. More about this later. Figure 4 shows the organ’s cranking side, the depth of the porch addition – which provides the needed clearance for cranking - and the side panel which I designed to embrace the side of the organ and support the new facade’s 2” extension beyond the Harmonette’s front surface. A similar panel is against the other side of the organ. Figure 3 shows the detached porch. A 16” length of 1” x 2” wood laterally holds the new facade away from the Harmonette – also serves as a 2” stage in front of the pipes. The base of the porch structure (front and side panels, and stage back panel) fits snugly between the organ chest’s base and the red molding which surrounds the top of the wheeled platform. All parts painted blue are of a 1/8th inch composite material like masonite, which I had handy. I used a coping saw and SkilSaw for cutting and shaping since I lack a jig-saw. Only two fasteners are needed to secure this conglomeration against the Harmonette case: note the bolt head near top of the side panel in Figure 4. The fasteners are small bolts engaged to anchor nuts within the organ case. One nut existed for a bolt securing one end of the organ’s unused carry strap, another hole was drilled on the other side and a similar anchor nut installed. I needed a sample design for the porch front which had a rectangular opening sized to expose my front rank of 16 pipes, and wings which extended somewhat beyond the organ box to broaden the facade. The Alan Pell website features a Mini-20 organ with an artist-painted wooden facade with outlines that appealed to me. I downloaded and printed the small illustration, then had it enlarged 7.7 times and printed on bond paper at an Office Depot store. Why enlarged 7.7 times? This provided the image in Fig. 2 with a central opening the right size to expose my front pipes. The Harmonette’s mitered bass pipes are behind the front 16, whereas the Mini-20’s pipes are all in a front row. The printed bass pipes are retained and look fine. The white “bib” under the stage with words Alan Pell Organs is to conceal the base of the organ case. The printed pattern was rubber-cemented to a cardboard backing for protection and ease of handling, and later attached to the blue front porch panel with 4 small bolts (Fig.2). The enlargement resulted in slight color fading and blurred the painted pastoral scenes. I used a felt ink pen to accent some borders. Please remember this is prototyping.

So there you have it...how I made a platform for a removable and expanded facade for my small hand-cranked Pell Monkey Organ. Now for a painted design of my own. Why don’t you give your instrument a new look?

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About the author: Kenneth E. Hodge, a retired aeronautical engineer and 38-year AMICA Member, has written occasionally for the “Bulletin.” Although his old radio collection outnumbers his mechanical music instruments, Ken and friend Pat Moore are happiest when giving public performances with the Pell “Harmonette” and its 36-key big brother Verbeeck Street Organ. He can be reached at [email protected].

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AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 83 Figure 1: Pell Harmonette Monkey Organ Figure 2: New facade on Harmonette

Figure 3: Porch backstage view Figure 4: Side panel, anchor bolt, crank clearance

84 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

By Terry Smythe

Music Trades was a weekly periodical serving the musical instrument industry in the period 1885 to about 1935. It competed with Music Trade Review, another weekly periodical serving the same industry. As Music Trades had a much smaller audience, it is exceedingly rare today. As a consequence of an eBay offering, we have been successful in acquiring about 400+ issues. There is about 20-25% equal crossover, so Music Trades is proving to be a useful research resource.

As I gradually work my way through digitizing these issues of Music Trades for our On-Line Research Library, some interesting news items appear as if by magic. I thought it might be useful to publish a few of these news items in our AMICA Bulletin, in hopes that current whereabouts of these fine instruments might be known. If by chance, a member currently owns one of these instruments as reported some 88 years ago, these news items may add a nice bit of provenance.

The first in this series are a couple of news items from the:

* 10 September 1926 issue of Music Trades illustrates what appears to be an Ampico cabinet piano, sold to the Armour family, already owning eight other Ampico pianos.. Is the attached picture correct? Is it perhaps a roll cabinet? If so, it speaks volumes for the elegance of its companion piano. However, in a number of subsequence issues of Music Trades, there is no correction, suggesting that the instru- ment illustrated is indeed a Chickering Ampico, albeit in a cabinet style case, the only one to come to my attention in some 45+ years in this delightful avocation.

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 85 * 16 October 1926 issue of Music Trades illustrates an elegant Sohmer Welte-Mignon grand in a fine Spanish Renaissance case. It was sold to movie star Tom Mix, who placed it in his Los Angeles home.

Where Are They Now?

86 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 CHICAGO AREA CHAPTER Reporter: Carol Veome President: Jerry Biasella This year we had a holiday meeting combined with the Lake Michigan Chapter of MBSI. A total of 184 people were hosted at the estate of Marian and Jasper Sanfilippo in Barrington Hills, IL. The doors to their spectacular 44,000 square foot home in full Christmas décor opened at 4:00 pm with lively and joyful holiday music. The Sanfilippo collection is never static. In the theater there is a newly arrived set of stunning backlit art glass panels depicting Mucha’s “Four Seasons” and a monumental Mermod Frères interchangeable cylinder music box ensemble. In the salon is a Wurlitzer Tonophone that plays the piano pneumatically from a pinned barrel. Flanking the salon entry to the penny arcade are life-sized perfume vendor ladies modeled after two of the wives of the Mills Novelty Co. brothers. The penny arcade has expanded with rows of Cailoscope and Quartoscope coin operated stereo slide viewers, an impressive lung tester raising a balloon to the moon and a bigger than life Dr. Vibrator. At 5:15 PM we assembled in the theater which now has a newly remodeled balcony affording better sight lines for the stage below. Sanfilippo Foundation director Greg Leifel welcomed both organizations and mentioned events at the estate have raised over one and a half million dollars for various charitable organizations this year alone. As this was a holiday party, no formal business meetings were held. James Huffer announced the availability of surplus convention favors from the recent MBSI annual meeting. After acknowledging distant travelers from as far away as Oregon and thanking our hosts Marian and Jasper Sanfilippo, Marty Persky introduced the highlight of the evening - Jay Warren, Chicago’s foremost photoplay organist accompanying three holiday themed short films on the 5 manual 80 rank Wurlitzer. The movies spanned over two decades of the era. First we saw the 1905 “The Night before Christmas” by the Edison Manufacturing Company, then the 1910 “A Christmas Carol,” followed by the 1926 Hal Roach directed Our Gang holiday production of “Good Cheer”. At 6:30 festivities continued with a social hour of wine and soft drinks in the carousel pavilion, home of the 1890 Eden Palais salon carousel and 24 fairground, dance and street organs. A new grouping of giant format magic and circus posters were displayed above the entry. The steam engine gallery, filled with beauties of the industrial revolution and related items, were hissing with several engines running on compressed air. At the end of the steam engine gallery there is now a “must see” thirteen foot wide Carter magic poster. The buffet dinner opened at 7:00 PM and as always was delicious. Following dinner and desert we enjoyed a concert performed by the Wurlitzer 180 military band organ and the 110 key Gavioliphone. It was a special surprise for Jasper with the debut of four holiday pieces on the Wurlitzer 180.

As the finale, Jasper fired up the Eden Palais carousel and 89 key Gavioli. Copies of the Sanfilippo Collection booklet “Place de la Musique” and instrument CD’s were made available for purchase at the end of the evening with all proceeds going to the Sanfilippo Foundation.

The pictures show scenes of the Sanfilipo collection.

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 87 FOUNDING CHAPTER Reporter: Bob Gonzalez Photographs: Jack Edwards President: John Ulrich The Founding Chapter held its February, 2014, meeting at the lovely home of Bob and Bonnie Gonzalez. The weather was clear and warm for a winter day and several members enjoyed their lunch outside on the deck. A highlight was introducing the just restored Coinola Solo Flute piano. The instrument was saved from disposal by John MottoRos who found a home for it with Bob and Bonnie. Bobby Skinner, of New Orleans, performed a complete restoration including new hammers, action restoration and all player components. He also added additional capacity so that another solo instrument and percussion can be installed later. Using an O Roll, the instrument is capable of much more than just piano and pipes. Chapter President, John Ulrich, has teamed up with ragtime Tom Brier to produce a series of new 88-note rolls on the Olivewood label. John played five of the new rolls on the

Bobby Skinner discussing the Coinola restoration

Weber Duo-Art grand piano. Everyone enjoyed hearing them and several rolls were purchased. Interested parties can contact John Ulrich for information. In addition to the Weber and Coinola, members played the Edgerton KT Special and Yamaha C-6 piano. Bob has a large collection of midi files for the Yamaha and many rare roll scans were played throughout the afternoon. Many recorded live performances were heard as well. During the business meeting portion of the afternoon, President Ulrich urged everyone planning to attend the Fresno convention to register right away. Convention Chairman, Frank Nix, is at the point where actual head counts are needed to reserve busses and ticket blocks. Other business items were a wrap-up of the San Francisco L to R: Richard Reutlinger, Greg McKenna, Edith and Jim Porter, Darryl Coe, and Bobby Skinner listening to the Coinola story

convention. All table favors and shirts are gone. Just a few Tom Brier souvenir rolls were left, but John purchased them and will offer them with Tom’s new rolls. Another topic is whether to adopt another instrument for restoration and public exposure. The Chapter has in the past helped restore one for a museum in Virginia City. That experience went very well and the public enjoyed listening to it. We will likely place another restoration there. A good time was had by all and the official meeting ended at five o’clock. But some folks stayed on to play more music. The next meeting will be announced soon.

Out on the deck with John MottoRos, Joan Sprankle, and Chuck Schoppe

88 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 HEART OF AMERICA CHAPTER Reporter: Don Davis President: Bob Stout On November 30th, the Heart Of America Chapter held its Christmas meeting at the home and theatre of Ken and Virginia Filardo near Eudora, Kansas. Ken has assembled an outstanding movie theatre with vintage seating, screen and sound equipment, paired with a digital video projection system. This provided a great venue for viewing two movies. The first was “The Thief of ” accompanied by Greg Filardo on a Wurlitzer Style “O” photo player. The second movie enjoyed later in the evening was a pristine digital version of “White Christmas.” Members also enjoyed a pot luck dinner and Christmas gift exchange. The following day, members attended a Christmas concert at the Kansas City, Missouri 1933 Art Deco Music Hall. The 4-28 Robert Morton theatre organ concert and sing along was followed by an on-stage banquet. Several members brought their street organs and enjoyed playing them in the reverberant sounds of the beautiful Music Hall lobby areas.

Our hosts: Ken and Virginia Filardo

Wurlitzer Style O , Seeburg E, Coinola X Photoplayer artist Greg Filardo visits with Charles Tyler

Gary Craig shares insights Street organs in Music Hall lobby

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 89 ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER Reporter: Larry Emmons President: Jere DeBacker Editor’s note: The regular Chapter meeting report includes a special tribute by Art Reblitz. The report is followed by a special “sing-along” meeting report from last Summer.

AMICA members were treated to some fine music and hospitality at the home of Bill and Marilyn Decker in Longmont, Colorado. The Decker’s have a nice variety of wonderful instruments and Bill is a wealth of knowledge about mechanical, pneumatic and also the electronics of digital music reproduction and pipe organs as well as reproducing pianos. It is always a good time at the Decker’s Home, and we had a good turnout, too. Additionally, we were treated to a documentary movie that Bill and some friends had made about Scott Harrison and Ellen Moore’s Carousel of Happiness in Nederland, Colorado. Unfortunately the photos didn’t work in the home theater. While in Longmont, Colorado we also visited the home of Bill and Marilyn Decker, our hosts Jud Murphy and his great and varied collection. We had lunch and listened to every machine multiple times. Jud shared his recently acquired pinball machine with us, too. This actual machine has been in his family for 51 years. The two manual instrument is an Operator’s Piano Co ’’Reproduco”..... roll playing combination piano/pipe organ. The Reproduco piano/organ was manufactured from 1916 through 1928, with this example made circa the mid-1920s. This is an older restoration by Max Maxwell and Joseph Cossolini, with guidance by Art Reblitz of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The fancy walnut case instrument is a 1901 Aeolian “Orchestrelle”, a roll playing reed organ. This is a pressure instrument (not vacuum), and contains the Vocalion reed system. Restored by Jim Bratton of Denver, Colorado. The quarter operated piano is a built-up “Orchestrion” from a 1922 Hobart M. Cable 88 note player. It was built in the The "O" roll orchestrion built by Oren Maxwell and modified by Bill Decker. The upright piano on the right is a Wurlitzer Recordo. L to R, Steve McCormick, Don Hein, Ben Haass, Bill Decker and Don Wick

1980’s by Art Reblitz, his friend Max Maxwell and an employee of Art’s, Joseph Cossolini. Before it came to Jud Murphy, this orchestrion was earning lots of quarters while out in public venues around the Colorado Springs area.... including the Cave of the Winds gift shop. Occasionally this instrument still travels out in the Longmont, Colorado area to perform for the public.... and still play beautifully. The pinball machine is a 1949 Williams wood-rail “Maryland”. Flippers had only been introduced on these machines 2 years earlier.

MIDI controlled pipe organ with Ryan Kroll and Ben Haass

90 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 Attending members of the Rocky Mountain Chapter, left to right, back to front: Jere DeBacker, Bill Decker, Ryan Kroll, Ben Haass, Barry Weiss, Don Hein, Don Wick, David Charles, Steve McCormick, Scott Harrison, Dick Kroeckel

Dick Kroeckel made the Steinway XR sound great Built up "O" roll orchestrion. L to R: Ben Haass, Dick Kroeckel, Marilyn Decker, Ryan Kroll, Steve McCormick, Scott Harrison, Ellen Moore, Don Wick, Peter Olejar, Harry Weiss

Max Maxwell The Rocky Mountain Chapter meeting report in this issue mentions three instruments in current members’ collections that came from the collection of Max Maxwell. I thought a few words about Max would be appropriate here. Col. Oren Maxwell (1922-2007), or “Max” as he liked to be called, was a retired USAF pilot who became interested in automatic instruments in 1980. His background included a Master’s Degree in geology, an interest in a small gold mine in Panama where he did assaying for a friend, a homebuilder’s license, and a large solar water heating system that he designed and built for his household and swimming pool. He successfully applied his mechanical ability and skills in woodworking, electrical work, plumbing, and welding to just about anything that interested him. He also expressed his artistic talent in his fully-equipped rock shop where he created beautiful art style lamp shades and other works from thin-sliced gemstones and translucent colored rocks and minerals. Max worked with me during the 1980s, helping to finish the wiring and interior of the Reblitz Restorations shop, household remodeling, installation of a sprinkler system, etc. in exchange for our help with rebuilding his player piano, AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 91 Reproduco piano/organ, and constructing two O-roll orchestrions. The first was “Janet’s Loadanickelin”, a tall orchestrion which he made for his wife who played numerous instruments. This had a backlit sliced colored rock front depicting a western scene, which was segmented to roll up like a curtain on a hexagonal drum the full width of the piano. It included an accordion, a set of flute pipes, orchestra bells, a xylophone mounted on the wall next to the piano, and the usual percussion. The second was fit into a player piano cabinet, with the instrumentation resembling a simplified Coinola X. We co-owned it and placed it on location in the Chapel Hills Mall and then the Cave of the Winds gift shop in Colorado Springs, and finally the lounge in Bob Young’s Cabaret in Cascade, Colorado. Always congenial, Max and Janet were members of AMICA and opened their home and collection to interested guests and at least one large AMICA meeting in Colorado Springs during the 1980s. After Janet’s passing in 2011, the family sold the Reproduco and smaller orchestrion to Jud Murphy, and the large orchestrion to Bill and Marilyn Decker. All three instruments have now been cleaned, refurbished, and brought back into excellent playing condition by their new owners. Thank you, Max and Janet, for your endless generosity. Here’s to our many fine memories of the good times we had! Art Reblitz

Sing Along with Barry Weiss and the Conway Player Over the years, some of our most fun parties have been the Sing-Along at the home of Barry Weiss in Boulder, Colorado. Barry has been the Rocky Mt. Chapter Treasurer for some years now and he does a fine job. He has a large collection of rolls that makes singing along with the player piano lots of fun and it really seems like it could be 1920 again – except lots of the songs are newer. Besides old standards, there are musicals, and ballads and novelty songs from decades past. Many folks know the old tunes, but there is always something to learn from Barry’s collection. Barry just recently had Jere DeBacker rebuild the Simplex player action, so that it is now easy and fun to pump as well as being able to be played electrically. Everyone wanted to take a turn at the pedals this time. Barry also invites some of his other friends to – so we are guaranteed some good voices and the music sounds great! It was especially fun this time, celebrating Jere’s 60th Birthday and hearing about the 50th anniversary AMICA convention in San Francisco. Thanks, Barry!

Brad Uecker and Dick Kroeckel Brad Uecker at the pedals with Dick Kroeckel

Brad Uecker, Dick Kroeckel, and Jere DeBacker The group enjoying singing and playing

92 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 SOWNY Chapter Meeting Reporters: Glenn & Shirley Roat President: Glenn Roat The December 2013 meeting (aka “The Christmas Party”) of the SOWNY Chapter was hosted by Glenn and Shirley Roat this year, a tradition now in its third year. The meeting was well attended with twenty-one guests, including members, non-members and prospective members. As an added treat, for the second year in a row, the upstate New York weather cooperated with no icy or snowy roads although it was just starting to snow when the festivities started to break up around 9:00pm. We would like to welcome new members Greg and Linda, and Dave, Sabrina and Camden (at 3 years old our youngest member). In addition to some great conversation, guests selected and enjoyed music on the AMPICO, Duo-Art, and the Pumper. The newest instrument in our collection was also on display, although not functional: an AMPICO from the 1930’s; that we’ve been told at one time had been in the office of Elmer Brooks Jr., a former Executive. Before we acquired the piano, it was used as part of the Pianos for Peace project in Rochester, NY. For the Pianos for Peace project, this piano had been very creatively painted by the artists at Little Flower Community. Pianos for Peace was an innovative community project spearheaded by a University of Rochester student. For three weeks in August 2013, donated pianos were placed around the City of Rochester in inner-city neighborhoods for free and public use. After the appetizers were enjoyed, everyone lined up to partake of the pot luck dinner featuring ham, potatoes and salads. Dessert, of course, was the highlight with cookies, pies and cakes. A short business meeting was held which included election of Chapter officers and discussion of future meetings. The only change from the previous year is that Larry Weingartner will be taking over as Chapter Vice President. The traditional Chapter gift exchange rounded out the evening. The hit of the gift Paula looks on as Dave pumps out a tune on the player piano exchange seemed to be Camden’s Mickey Mouse playing a sax, which is part of the Hallmark Disney Musical Band set.

John and Alan enjoying some good conversation Greg, Craig, Donna, Jane, Carl, and Sabrina in the buffet line while host Shirley talks to Camden and Dave

Ampico spinet from Pianos for Peace project in Rochester, NY Host Glenn involved in a deep discussion with John, Greg, and Gil AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 93 TEXAS CHAPTER Reporter: Ken Long President: Rich Clayton The Texas Chapter of AMICA met on November 2, 2013 at the Dallas home of Ken Long. There were sixty-six attendees which included twenty-seven guests. This meeting offered a full meal, instrument tour, and an incredibly special piano performance by Frederick Hodges. There was so much to see, hear, and experience that members and guests were still exploring the collection up to six hours after the beginning of the gathering. Fortunately, North Texas was experiencing the most beautiful Indian summer this autumn season and the temperature was seventy-two degrees and sunny which provided a very nice full-lunch arrangement in the motor court. The afternoon began with a fantastic catered meal which was most welcome due to the tightly scheduled sequence of events. Everyone enjoyed the dining experience while listening to the music of reproducing grand pianos. The primary instrument of the show and tell event was a 1922 Texas Chapter President Rich Clayton, Maurine Hilding, Steinway Red Welte T-100 Model O grand which had just and host Ken Long been returned from a full restoration. The instrument was originally delivered from Freiburg to to a wealthy perfume/cosmetic/soap consortium proprietor for his wife’s first wedding anniversary in 1922. The piano was maintained in mint condition with a full length cover in the original family until she died at 98 years of age. A demonstration was given of the instrument played by the red Welte piano roll using the original remote pump which is housed in a matching ebony cabinet. In addition to the piano and the pump, the piano has the original Welte designed ebony roll cabinet with a smaller upper door with glass panels matching the design of the Welte cabinet piano. This accompanying roll cabinet is a rare example and its interior is made of Carpathian and bird’s eye maple with standardized roll shelving for the T-100 Red Welte rolls. Another demonstration was given of the piano using the Bob Hunt VirtualRoll MIDI system which was installed during the restoration process. This system was designed to operate from another newer remote pump, 1928 versus the 1922 original, and it is housed in a padded cabinet for 1922 Hamburg Steinway Welte T-100 a no noise operation. The Welte system and pump were restored by master craftsman, Kirk Russell. The piano, the MIDI system, fine adjustments were restored by Brian Grindrod, Bob Hunt, and Tom Ahearn. The dead silence of the vacuum supply to the piano plus the quietness of a finely rebuilt Welte and the superb sound of a precisely adjusted and tuned Steinway, provided reproducing roll performances rarely heard by this listening audience. More information about the precision and skill in installing the MIDI in a grand Welte will be the subject of a future “Lost and Found” article. Next the AMICAN’s were able to view the 1915/1916 Hamburg Steinway Red Welte T-100 Model O grand adorned in a full Louis XV Rosewood case. The piano, delivered originally to Canada, is in good unrestored condition but is scheduled for full piano and Welte player restoration in 2014. Several instruments in the main music room

94 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 This is going to be another fine example of the Red Welte T-100 system in the Steinway grand piano. And nearby, the group was able to view the unrestored but beautiful 1908 Welte T-100 vorsetzer in a red mahogany cabinet. It will be scheduled for restoration after the rosewood Steinway Welte in 2014-2015. Next scheduled was the piano performance by the world-renowned 1920s and ragtime pianist Frederick Hodges. Frederick had just performed at the National AMICA Convention in San Francisco in July, 2013. So the Texas Chapter decided that the meeting would not be complete without his wonderful music played in person for the entire chapter to hear. We experienced beautifully arranged pieces in a surprise format! Frederick moved from vintage piano to vintage piano: Knabe Ampico concert grand, Steinway Welte model O, and Steinway Duo-Art Frederick Hodges model AR. His repertoire included Lover, Swanee, Parade of the Sandwich Board Men, Piano Puzzle, Rambling in Rhythm, Railroad Rhythm, Delirium, Grand Fantasy on Themes from Show Boat, Frederick’s own Grand Fantasy on Themes from the Wizard of Oz, Mansell , and Rhapsody in Blue. The audience was spellbound and amazed at his superior artistry and technique. It was a magical day. He is an extremely rare and talented musician suo jure. After the splendid performance, the group toured all of the other instruments in the collection including a large collection of Aeolian Organ 176 note rolls, Apollo/Art-Echo rolls, Ampico, Duo-Art, Welte Licensee and T-100, and 65 note rolls. There are 15 grand pianos, an Apollophone upright, a Welte Licensee radio/phonograph cabinet piano, and the Welte T-100 vorsetzer in the home to view. There is also a large radio and phonograph collection filling three floors of the home as well. To both members and guests, this collection emphasizes what AMICA is all about. It is said that if you can’t maintain the instruments that one is not doing their part in the conservation of these rare and fine pieces of history for our next generation. However, a large collection requires a dedicated effort to Apollophone restore, maintain, tune, and enjoy. Fortunately, this collection receives continued maintenance and has been, or will be, restored on a rolling schedule. But more importantly, the collection is being played, demonstrated, enjoyed not only by the owner/curator, but by local musicians, music teachers, and students from The University of North Texas, Denton, Texas; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas; and Texas Christian College, Ft. Worth, Texas. And several hosted contestants from the 2009 and 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competitions have witnessed a new world musical renaissance from the unacknowledged and unattested piano roll. Additionally, the instruments continue to receive extreme admiration at a broader level from the members of the Classic Car Club of America, the Music Box Society International, the Dallas Orchestra artists, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Guild whose members were given a dedicated performance of artists playing their own compositions at a large meeting held in the Long residence. The program included the composer played works by Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Ravel, Faure, Bartok, Granados, Paderewski, Scriabin, Kreisler, Horowitz, Grieg, Larry Williams studies two Welte T-100s: 1916 Steinway Red Welte Louis XV Rosewood case; 1908 Red Welte Vorsetzer Mahler, Carreno, and Mana-Zucca.

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 95 After six hours began to fade into the sunset and the musically submerged AMICANs began to reluctantly file away from a most enjoyable and relaxing day, another successful AMICA meeting was concluded with a very positive result of several new members joining our fine organization. The chapter thanked Mr. Hodges for his afternoon of piano mastery and entertaining, Mr. Long for opening his home and sharing his collection, as well as all the AMICAN’s who helped make this event such a success. Additional pictures of the instruments and the happy attendees follow:

96 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 In Memoriam Richard Tonnesen

Over the years, Richard and Janet continued to provide superior recut rolls in several formats. When Richard became ill, Janet gradually took over ever more of their initiative. She is to be commended for her amazing support and dedication. In 2004, Eleanor and I took a vacation that took us through Dallas. In advance, I had contacted Bill Flynt and arranged a visit. When we arrived, a delightful surprise awaited us. Learning we were passing through, Janet spontaneously arranged a mini Texas Chapter meeting in their home. For the first time for me, I got to see Richard's scanner and perforator, which I found to be a quite exceptional treat, built like a pair of fine watches. Richard was a class act, always quiet, unassuming, seemingly always somewhat surprised at his stunning achievements. He will be sorely missed.

Terry Smythe As an old-timer with AMICA, I've had the privilege Winnipeg, Canada and pleasure of getting to know Richard and Janet from a couple of viewpoints, all memorable. It was some 35 years ago, that Richard conceived of building a precision roll scanner and companion precision roll perforator, at a time when quality recuts were the holy grail. His engineering/electronics background served him very well in the design and construction of not only the hardware, but also the software to drive it all. He and his wife Janet, gradually built a modest hobby endeavour into a very high quality service to the whole of this delightful avocation. In 1981, Richard and I collaborated on a couple of projects over about 4 years where he recut a number of Red-Welte and Green-Welte rolls, and in the process, converted their content into the Welte-Licensee format. By chance, at the time, I owned a Red-Welte Vorsetzer, from which I extracted and loaned its tracker bar to Richard. He did all the roll scanning, format conversion, roll perforating, packaging and mailing, while I did the promotion and administration. Both projects were notable successes. In 1982, Richard conducted a workshop at the AMICA Convention that year in Chicago. It was well attended and appreciated. It was great to see Richard gaining recognition for a remarkable achievement. Janet and Richard (1982)

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 97 I am very sorry to hear of Richard's passing. During my time in the Texas Chapter of AMICA, Richard and Janet Tonnesen, Richard N. Tonnesen were remarkably generous to me with their time, June 9, 1940 - February 4, 2014 energy, and knowledge, as well as with their influence. Richard Niles Tonnesen of Richardson, Texas was Janet had served on the AMICA Board of Directors, if memory serves, and was instrumental in opening doors to born in Dubuque, Iowa, June 9, 1940 and passed away me in the mechanical music field that few others could peacefully February 4, 2014 at the age of 73. A memorial have. service [was] held at the First United Methodist Church Richard will always be in my memory the modest of Coppell on Friday, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:00 AM with a genius he always was -- a kind, unassumingly quiet man reception immediately following. whose very nature belied his almost incomprehensible Richard was preceded in death by his father, William brilliance. With the passing of Richard Tonnesen our Andrew Tonnesen and his mother, Rose Marie (Riedi) community has lost a quiet and , one that I, and Tonnesen. He is survived by his loving wife of 53 years, I am sure many others, will sorely miss. Janet Ann (Fischer) Tonnesen, two children, son Steven (Cindee) Tonnesen and daughter Diane (Greg) Walter and Bryan Cather two granddaughters, Lauren and Katie Walter. Saint Louis, Missouri Richard joined the Naval Reserve Training Center as he began his senior year in high school in 1957. Richard As appearing in MMD, 6 Feb 2014, reprinted with permission. graduated from the University of Dubuque in 1962 with a Bachelor Degree in Physics. He attended US Naval Officer Candidate School and received his commission as a United States Naval Officer in August, 1962. He served 3 years active duty in the Navy, serving on the island of Adak, Alaska and at a Naval Facility Base in Ferndale, California. After resigning his commission in 1965 he came to Dallas, Texas and worked for several years at Texas Instruments. While in the Navy he became very interested in computers and learned he had a special knack for programming computers. He subsequently worked for Raldon Home Developer, programs for their accounting and construction scheduling and development. Later he worked for Harris Communications, Harris Adacom, and retired from Open Connect in 2001. Richard was a gentle, quiet, softly spoken man with a keen sense of humor and an unquenchable interest in science and history. Richard’s interest in electronics and mechanics and his desire to own his own computer in Janet operating their roll reader (2004) the early 70’s led him to design and build a piano roll reader and piano roll perforator and write the programs to run the equipment. What started out as a hobby became a part-time business (mostly a labor of love) of punching paper piano rolls for collectors of various types of player and reproducing pianos. Richard was diagnosed in 1998 with Parkinson’s Disease and the progression of the disease made it difficult to maintain the equipment and 30 years after punching its first piano rolls, the Custom Music Rolls perforator ceased production in Richardson. The machinery now resides in San Antonio and is still producing paper piano rolls. The family would like to thank the staff at Presbyterian Village North for the loving care they gave him during the past 15 months. He was loved. He will be missed. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to http://www.parkinsonvoiceproject.org Richard and his precision perforator. (2004)

98 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 untrusting seller demanded cash payment, forcing them to Frances (Fran) Willyard scramble to the bank on a Friday afternoon to get the money for their new treasure. Fran still had this piano at the time of her passing. Maury fixed the pianos and Fran supervised the acquisition of rolls for the many pianos they came to own. She was a determined collector and worked to get as many unique roll brands as possible. Their collection included Ampico, Duo-Art, Welte Licensee, Recordo, Hupfeld, 65 and 88 note players, Tel-Electric, and Orchestrelle. Her favorite tunes were “Barney Google” and the various songs about Charles Lindbergh’s famous flight. Maury was elected chair of the Founding Chapter, but was transferred to the Bremerton Naval base shortly thereafter, so his term there was short. In the northwest, there was not an AMICA chapter at that time, but their interest in automatic music was strong and they became active in the Northwest International Chapter of MBSI and co-chaired the 1997 annual meeting in Silverdale, Washington. Roll-operated Fran was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin and was proud to instruments were their primary interest and they were tell people that both her father and her brother were founding members of the Pacific Can-Am chapter of involved in building Nash automobiles. Her late husband AMICA as it formed the year before the chapter hosted Maury was from the Dakotas and both decided early on that the 1994 convention in Seattle. They amassed a great they hoped to live their lives in climates away from the variety of instruments and enjoyed sharing their collection upper Midwest. Maury was a career Navy man and with with others. They attended many AMICA conventions that, they lived in a variety of coastal locations and came to over the years. adopt the Pacific Northwest as their preferred home. With Fran had many interests outside automatic music Maury often out to sea, Fran’s independent spirit and skills including collecting Frankoma pottery, Hummel figurines, were put to good advantage and they raised a daughter, and cats and she and Maury were active members of the Kathy, who followed Maury into a military career. They Lincoln car club. They particularly enjoyed convertibles. shared many interests including collecting antiques and She was active in the Catholic Church and is survived by vintage music and joined AMICA in 1973 while they lived her daughter Kathy and son-in-law Garth. We will all miss in San Jose, California. Maury taught himself to restore her good- natured humor and persistent optimism. player pianos and they acquired a Chickering Ampico grand from its original owner. Fran enjoyed telling the story Dan Brown of how they answered the ad for the piano and that the

AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 99 “He started at age 5 and his parents kept him taking lessons Trebor Tichenor and he really didn’t take to it,” Franz said. “Finally his piano teacher said I’m going to let you pick a song, and he picked "Maple Leaf Rag" and that was it.” When the St. Louis Ragtimers performed, they played a mix of original works and ragtime classics. During the show, we played the band’s recordings of original pieces “Chestnut Valley” and “Bucksnort Stomp” as well as old favorite “Up Jumped the Devil.” “Chestnut Valley” was inspired by the Mill Creek Valley section of downtown St. Louis, home of ragtime composer Tom Turpin’s Rosebud Bar. Don Franz on trumpet, Trebor Tichenor on piano and Al Stricker on banjo in the early days of the St. St. Louis Public Radio Louis Ragtimers. St. Louis, MO Credit: Courtesy St. 7 March 2014 Louis Ragtimers Remembering Ragtime Pianist And Scholar Trebor Tichenor By Camille Phillips Bucksnort Stomp is named after the hometown of Trebor Tichenor’s wife, Jeanette. According to legend, the town owes its Ragtime pianist and scholar Trebor Tichenor passed away name to the vast amounts of moonshine made there. last month after a stroke. He was 74. Longtime St. Louis Public “The animals would stomp and snort at the smell of the Radio listeners may remember his weekly program “Ragophile” moonshine,” Stricker said. that aired on the station in the 1970s and ‘80s. “Up Jumped the Devil” was an old fiddle tune that they We dedicated the entire hour of Cityscape today to started playing on Gaslight Square, Stricker said. remembering Tichenor with his son Andy Tichenor and fellow “Trebor always liked it, and the people on Gaslight Square band members Don Franz and Al Stricker. liked it too,” he said. “It’s a snappy little tune.” In the fall of 1961 Trebor Tichenor (piano), Don Franz To wind up the hour, we played a recording of Andy (), Al Stricker (banjo) and Bill Mason () formed the St. Tichenor playing a duet with his father of Jelly Roll Morton’s Louis Ragtimers and began a regular gig at the Natchez Queen on “King Porter Stomp” with Andy on trumpet and Trebor on piano. Gaslight Square. Both Andy and his sister Virginia continue their father’s “We interviewed on Labor Day. The owner [of the Natchez musical tradition, with Andy playing trumpet and Virginia piano Queen] said ‘Well, there won’t be much there [but] we can hear like her dad. you guys.’ Well we fooled them. We called everybody we knew “He created an environment for my brother and myself that in town and the place was packed. We played one set and the was just really fun. We saw all of his great friends and music and guy said ‘You’re hired. We’ll start with Wednesdays, Fridays and we just naturally wanted to be a part of it,” Virginia said. Saturdays.’” Stricker said. Dennis Owsley, jazz historian and host of the weekly St. The band stayed together for more than 50 years, playing Louis Public Radio program “Jazz Unlimited,” interviewed their last show just a few months ago at the Sheldon. In 1965 the Tichenor in 1986 for his book on the history of jazz in St. Louis. band began playing regularly at the Goldenrod Showboat, hosting “One of the things that impressed me about Trebor was annual ragtime festivals there for years. that not only was he a performer and a musician, but he was a Ragtime, said Andy Tichenor, was his dad’s life work. scholar,” Owsley said. “He started in the business probably in the early ‘50s, On Sunday March 23, Owsley will dedicate the first hour of listening to early rag records,” Andy Tichenor said. “And then “Jazz Unlimited” to remembering Trebor Tichenor. back in those early days, he started collecting this stuff, the sheets, piano rolls, and it literally became his life’s body of Story and audio extracts may be seen and heard at: work.” http://tinyurl.com/l6lolvx Trebor Tichenor’s ragtime collection included a player piano, piano rolls to play on the piano, records, and sheet music. Along Trebor and his band were featured at AMICA’s 1996 convention with the objects, he began collecting information and stories in St. Louis. (See Sep-Oct 1996 AMICA Bulletin) His daughter, about the history of ragtime. Virginia and her husband Marty Eggers, are members of AMICA, Even before he began collecting ragtime paraphernalia, and continue with her father’s legacy. ragtime music made Tichenor fall in love with playing the piano.

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104 AMICA Bulletin - Mar/Apr 2014 Please visit these suppliers of rolls

Tim Baxter : Meliora Music Rolls David Saul: Precision Music Rolls Welte-Mignon (Licensee), Ampico, Duo-Art, 88 note. 1043 Eastside Road, El Cajon, CA 92020-1414 www.melioramusicrolls.com email: [email protected] [email protected] www.PrecisionMusicRolls.com

SB-"O" Rolls series. Dick Hack: Hack Mechanical Music Play-Rite Music Rolls 2051 Chesapeake Road, Annapolis, MD 21409 1536 N. Palm St., email: [email protected] Turlock. CA 95380. U.S.A. (410) 279-5859 Cell Days (410) 757-2164 Home Evenings Steve Bentley Phone. (209) 632-5784. Kukral Collection: Fax. 209) 667-8241. Welte-Mignon and 88-Note Rolls email: [email protected] 216 Madison Blvd., Terre Haute, IN 47803 Phone: (812) 238-9656 503-741-0960 (cell) Joyce Brite: Player Piano and email: [email protected] Mechanical Music Exchange http://www.mmdigest.com/Exchange/ John Motto-Ros http://www.mmdigest.com/Exchange/rollpage.htm “Nickelodeon Rolls” email: [email protected] “A” “G” “O” Rolls & Boxes 110 Allen Ranch Road, Sutter Creek, CA 95685 Julian Dyer 209-267-9252 88-note and Duo-Art rolls www.johnnysmusicrolls.com 5 Richmond Rise, Wokingham RG41 3XH, e-mail: [email protected] United Kingdom www.pianorolls.co.uk Keystone Music Rolls email: [email protected] P.O. Box 650, Bethlehem, PA 18016 [email protected] Ed Gaida Music Rolls http://www.keystonemusicroll.com PO Box 8174 San Antonio, TX 78208 Gnaw-Vol-ty Rolls [email protected] Stephen Kent Goodman http://www.gaidamusicrolls.com www.gnaw-vol-ty.com E-mail: [email protected] Brian Stahl: Piano Ticklers Music Rolls Fax: 866-828-2165 Ampico and 88-note recuts P.O. Box 220, Elizabethville, PA 17023 D.C. Ramey Piano Company, LLC. email: [email protected] A, G(and 4X), H, M, and O rolls www.pianoticklers.com 17768 Woodview Drive Phone: (717) 599-1369 Marysville OH 43040 708-602-3961 Rob Deland: Blues Tone Rolls www.dcramey.com www.bluesrolls.com email: [email protected] email: [email protected] "Pipes of Pan Music Rolls" Leedy Brothers Music Rolls Rolls for organettes and other devices Ampico, Welte Lic. 88 Note 207 S. McCrary St. 4660 Hagar Shore Road, Coloma, MI 49038 Woodbury, TN 37190 [email protected] 615-563-5814 pianorollcenter.com http://www.popmusicrolls.com Phone: (269) 468-5986 email: [email protected]

Larry Norman: Rollertunes AmpicoRolls.com 88 note, and a few reproducing rolls Ray Smith, Proprietor www.home.earthlink.net/~rollertunes 630 Broad Street email: [email protected] Shrewsbury, NJ 07702 Phone: (540) 721-7188 732-747-1000 [email protected] Robin Pratt: Artists' Choice Music Rolls Welte-Mignon (LIcensee), Ampico and 88note roll Lewki Music email: [email protected] old 88note, Ampico, Duo-Art, Welte Phone: (419) 626-1903 PO Box 1945 Westminster, MD 21158 516 Pierce Street, Sandusky, OH 44870-4725 443-487-1810 www.Lewki.com QRS Music Technologies, Inc. email: [email protected] 1026 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213 Lew & Kiki Marshall Phone: 1-800-247-6557 - Fax: 1-716-885-7510 www.qrsmusic.com