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~-1924 JULY --- •••••••••••••••• • ••••••••••••••••• • •••••••••••••••••••• The AMICA News Bulletin Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association July/August 1987 Volume 24 • Number 4 .....................' . The AMICA News Bulletin Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association EDWIN WARD, Publisher 191 Riverview Drive (419) 849-2616 Woodville, Ohio 43469-9745 PUBLICATION DEADLINES FOR 1987 Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association, a non-profit dub dewted to the restoration, distribution and enj<¥nent of musical For JanuarylFebruary issue ................ .. December 15 instruments using perforated paper music rolls, AMICA was founded in San For March/April issue February 15 Francisco in 1963. For May/June issue April 15 For July/August issue. ........................ .. June 15 For September/October issue. ................ .. August 15 For NovemberlDecember issue. .............. .. October 15 CHAPTER OFFICERS FOUNDING CHAPTER IOWA Pres: Gene McGraw Pres: Rex Fritts Vice Pres: Bill Wherry Vice Pres: Leland Zimmerline Treas: Elmer Klein Sec/Treas: Ed Pousch Rep: Dick Reutlinger Reporter: Al Johnson Sec: Jack & Dianne Edwards ADVERTISING SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BOSTON AREA Classified: 1O¢ per word, $3.00 minimum for members. Pres: Jerry Pell Pres: Judy Welsh Non-members may advertise at twice the above rate. Vice Pres: Frank & Shirley Nix Vice Pres: Michael Potash (Publisher's note: It is no longer possible to process an ad for SeclRep: Susan Pell Sec: Bill Koenigsberg $1.50, hence the increase, and new rate for Non-members.) Treas: Pat Hodge Treas: Philip Konop Reporter: Donald Brown • See Bulletin Deadlines on this page. Payment must accompany order. Make checks payable to: TEXAS NORTHERN LIGHTS AMICA INTERNATIONAL. Pres: Richard Tonnesen Pres: Jerrilyn Boehland Vice Pres: Becky Newton Vice Pres: Tom Wurdeman I" • Checks or money orders from advertisers in foreign coun Sec/Treas: Janet Tonnesen Sec: Dennis Dahlman tries must be drawn on a U.S. Bank. Rep: Wade Newton Treas: Robert & Katheryn Dumas Reporter: Ruby Ahneman Display Advertising Full Page 7V2"xlO" $100.00 MIDWEST SIERRA-NEVADA Half Page 7V2"x4%" 50.00 Pres: Liz Barnhart Pres: Bob Patton s Vice Pres: Barry Leedy Vice Pres: Richard Riley Quarter Page 3 /e"x4%" 25.00 Sec: Russell & Jeanne Bloss Sec/Treas: Gail Shinn Treas: Alvin Wulfekuhl Reporter: Julie Riley & Bob Patton • Each photograph or half-tone $7.00. Reporter: Margaret Frazer • See Bulletin deadlines on this page. PHILADELPHIA AREA CHICAGO AREA • We recommend display advertisers supply camera-ready Pres: Paul Dietz Pres: Rob Deland copy. Copy that is oversized or undersized will be changed Vice Pres: Dave Charrier Vice Pres: Barry Schultz to correct size at your cost. We can prepare your adver Sec: Bob Rosencrans Sec: Fred Plank Treas: Bob Taylor Treas: Joe Pekarek tisement from your suggested layout at cost. Rep: Reporter: Mel Septon • Payment must accompany order. Typesetting, layout or size SOWNY (Southern Ontario, HEART OF AMERICA alteration charges will be billed separately. Make checks Western NY) Pres: Charles Tyler payable to: AMICA INTERNATIONAL. Pres: Gary Lemon Vice Pres: Gerold Koehler Vice Pres: Jim Barley Sec/Treas: Kay Bode • Checks or money orders from advertisers in foreign coun Sec: Janie McCleary Reporter: Willa Daniels tries must be drawn on a U.S. bank. Treas: Mike Walter • All ads will appear on the last pages of the Bulletin at the Rep: Stan Aldridge discretion of the publisher. ROCKY MOUNTAIN SOUTHEAST AREA: Publication of business advertising in no way implies AMICA's Pres: Larry Kerecman Pres: Wayne Edmonston Vice Pres: Owanah Wick Vice Pres: Gordon Belcher endorsement of any commercial operation. However, AMICA Rep: Art Reblitz Sec/Treas: David Burke reserves the right to refuse any ad that is not in keeping with Sec: Don Wick Reporter: David Burke AMICA's general standards or if complaints are received in Treas: Jere DeBacker dicating that said business does not serve the best interests LADY LIBERTY GATEWAY ~ of the members of AMICA according to its goals and bylaws. Pres: Lenny Finkel Pres: Roger Wiegand Vice Pres: Oliver Vitakis Vice Pres: Deanne Wiley Sec: Michelle Pollitt Sec:rreas: Mary Wilson Single back issues of the Bulletin Treas: John Ellems Reporter: Marilyn McGartland are available from the Publisher Rep: Dennis Valente for $2.00 each. AMICA International INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS AMICA - 1988 - AMICA PRESIDENT SILVER ANNIVERSARY PAST PRESIDENT Terry Smythe (204) 832·3982 CONVENTION 55 Rowland Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3J 2N6 VICE PRESIDENT Ron Connor June (501) 636-1749 22-26 Route 4, Rogers, AR 72756 San Francisco, California SECRETARY Mel Septon (312) 679-3455 Hosted by Founding Chapter 9045 North Karlov, Skokie, IL fflJ76 TREASURER Larry Norman (213) 538·9461 • Do you wish to become a member of AMICA? 17700 Avalon Blvd. #295, Carson, CA 90746 Write to Membership Secretary. PUBLISHER Edwin Ward Annual fee for U.S. members $22 (419) 849-2616 Canada and Mexico (air) $28 191 Riverview Drive, Woodville, OH 43469-9745 Other non-U.S. countries (surface) $28 MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Will Wild and Valerie Anderson New and lapsed members add processing fee. .. $ 5 New memberships • Has your address changed? (803) 738-1400, Ext. 4468, Home 791·1487 Write to Membership Secretary. P.O. Box 172, Columbia, SC 29202 • Do you have a contribution for the Bulletin? BOARD REPRESENTATIVES All subjects of interest to readers of the Bulletin are en Founding Chapter: Phil McCoy couraged and invited by the Publisher. Every attempt will Southern California: Mary Lilien Texas: Bob Smith be made to publish all articles of general interest to AMICA Midwest: Vincent Ricca members at the earliest possible time and at the discretion Phildelphia Area: Bob Rosencrans of the publisher. See Bulletin deadlines on previous page. SOWNY: Jan Drewniak Rocky Mountain: Larry Kerecman Lady Liberty: John DeParis AMICA International News Bulletin Iowa: Alvin Johnson Volume 24 Number 4 July/August 1987 Boston Area: Sanford Libman Northern Lights: Tom Olds Features CONTENTS Sierra-Nevada: Ray Bauer Publishers Thoughts .............. " 87 Chicago Area: Robert W. Taylor Guidelines For Contributors " 87 Heart of America: Ron Bopp Southeast Area: Wayne Edmonston AMICAs Silver Convention Update " 88 Gateway: Del Sewell A Bechstein Adventure. ............ " 88 Collectors Orchestrions A Repository for Sounds of Past 89 COMMITTEES Nadia Reisenberg Memorabilia " 91 Eubie Blake Collection in Baltimore " 91 TECHNICAL, Harold Malakinian 2345 Forest Trail Dr., Troy, MI 48098 Chauncey Olcott Favorites " 91 Portraits of Musical Celebrities " 92 ARCHNES, Bob Rosencrans Play it Again Paderewski ..............." 93 109 Cumberland Place, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 How the American Navy Torpedoed Hedy Lamarr 101 PUBUCATIONS, Edwin Ward Piano Rolls: Untapped Technical Resources. ....... .. 103 191 Riverview Dr., Woodville, OH 43469-9745 Ralph Rainger Discovered in "International House" ... .. 103 AUDIO-VISUAL, Harold Malakinian I Love My Cross Valves II 104 . 2345 Forest Trail Dr., Troy, MI 48098 Keeping Your Duo-Art Accordions in Tune 104 CONVENTION COORDINATOR, Liz Barnhart Decalomania Depressive. ...................... .. 105 919 Lantern Glow Trail, Dayton, OH 45431 Felinophone, Model 7......................... .. 105 The (Almost) Perfect Duo-Art 106 AMICA International Bylaws Center Section Pull-out AFFILIATED SOCIETIES - Departments See May/June 1987 issue for addresses AMICA International 85 The Player Piano Group (England) Presidents Comer .........................." 86 The North West Player Piano Association (England) News From the Chapters ....................... .. 94 Netherlands Mechanical Organ Society - KDV Technicalities ............................... .. 104 Australian Collectors of Mechanical Musical Instruments Dutch Pianola Association Rolls and Music ............................. .. 102 Society of Friends of Mechanical Musical Instruments (Germany) People " 91 Classified Ads 108 DISCLAIMER: Acceptance of articles for publication in the AMlCA News Cover: From the Duo-Art Monthly, July, 1924. Contributed by Molly Bulletin does not imply a guarantee of the accuracy of the facts contained Yeckley. in any article, nor an endorsement of an author's recommendation. -85- The President's Corner .... A Message from the President: It is with very deep regret that I find myself in a position / of having to resign as President of AMICA midway through my term. With a feeling of some incompetence but with the help of many of you and a strong Executive Board, I felt we were on our way to formulating strong plans and goals for the Association. However, I find that my health continues to deteriorate and therefore prevents me from giving AMICA "111 %" of my time and effort that. it deserves. I dislike missing the first convention of MBSI and AMICA and was looking forward to it as something new and exciting for all of us. I am positive that Ron Connor will be more than competent in the job, work ing with Jim Doheny as our official Parlimentarian and Roberta Cherney as another member of the Bylaws Committee. A draft of our labors will be handed out at the convention. My thoughts are with you; I hope your prayers will be with me. Always for AMICA, Molly Yeckley ./ ./ (Molly Yeckley passed away June 22, 198Z A fitting tribute and memorial will be published in the Sept./Oct. AMICA News Bulletin. She asked that any memorials in her name be to AMICA International Memorial Fund.) Ed. Rogers,