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Mechanical Music in Thewestcountry AMICA MEMBERSHIP RATES: AMICA International Continuing Members: $22 Annual Dues AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION Overseas Members: $28 Dues New Members and lapsed members, NEWS BULLETIN add $5 processing fee (Write to Membership Secretary, Dorothy Bromage, Publisher see address below) POB 275 Cape Cottage Branch Single back issues of the News Bulletin are Cape Elizabeth, Maine 04107 available from the Publisher for $2.00 each. USA Change of Address: If you move, send the new address and phone number to the Membership Secretary, Will Wild and Valerie Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Anderson Association, a non-profit club devoted to the restoration, distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments using INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS perforated paper music rolls. AMICA was founded in San Francisco in 1%3. PRESIDENT Terry Smythe (204) 452-2180 Contributions: All subjects of interest to readers of the 547 Waterloo St., Winnipeg, Manitoba Bulletin are encouraged and invited by the publisher. All Canada R3N on articles must be received by the 10th of the preceding PAST PRESIDENT Robert M. Taylor month. Every attempt will be made to publish all articles of (215) 735-2662 general interest to AMICA members at the earliest possible 1326 Spruce St. #3004, Phildelphia, PA 19107 time and at the discretion of the publisher. VICE PRESIDENT Molly Yeckley (419) 684-5742 Original Bulletin articles, or material for reprint that is of 612 Main st., Castalia, OH 44824 significant historical quality and interest, a~e encouraged SECRETARY Richard Reutlinger and will be rewarded in the form of AMICA membership (415) 346-8669 dues discounts. (Chapter reports and Forum inquiries are 824 Grove St., San Francisco, CA 94117 excluded.) PUBLISHER Dorothy Bromage ADVERTISING (207) Call Information P.O. Box 275 Cape Cottage Branch, Classified: 10¢ per word, $1.50 minimum. Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107 • All copy must reach the publisher by the 10th of the MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Will Wild and Valerie preceding month. Payment must accompany order. Anderson Make checks payable to: AMICA INTERNATIONAL. (New memberships and mailing problems) (803) 758-8846 • Checks or money orders from advertisers in foreign P.O. Box 172, Columbia, SC 29202 countries must be drawn on a U.S. bank. TREASURER Tom & Dorothy Olds Display advertising (218) 326-2488 Full page 7'12'x10" $100.00 1327 Crystal Springs Rd., Grd Rpds, MN 55744 Half page 7'12'x4%" 50.00 Quarter page 3%"x4¥." 25.00 BOARD REPRESENTATIVES Founding Chapter: Howie Koff • Each photograph or half-tone $7.00 Southern California: Dick Rigg Texas: Haden Vandiver • See Bulletin deadlines on first page of this issue. Midwest: Vincent Ricca • We recommend display advertisers supply camera­ Philadelphia Area: len Wert ready copy. Copy that is oversized or undersized SOWNY: Rick Drewniak Rocky Mountain: Dick Kroeckel will be changea to correct size at your cost. We can New Jersey: John De Paris prepare your advertisement from your suggested Iowa: Alvin Johnson layout at cost. Boston Area: Sanford Libman • All copy must reach the publisher by the 10th of the Northern lights: lowell Boehland Sierra-Nevada: Bob Moore preceding month. Chicago Area: Jerry Biasella • Payment must accompany order. Typesetting, layout Heart of America: Ron Bopp or size alteration charges will be billed separately, Southeast Area: John O'loughlin Make checks payable to: AMICA INTERNATIONAL. Gateway: Del Sewell • Checks or money orders from advertisers in foreign COMMITTEES countries must be drawn on a U.S. bank. TECHNICAL, Melluchetti 3449 Mauricia Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051 • All ads will appear on the last pages of the Bulletin at the discretion of the publisher. ARCHIVES, Jim Weisenborne 73 Nevada St., Rochester, MI48063 Publication of business advertising in no way implies AMICA GOALS, Robert Moore AMICA's endorsement of any commercial operation. 3100 Sagittarius Dr., Reno, NV 89509 However, AMICA reserves the right to refuse any ad that AUDIO-VISUAL, Howie Koff is not in keeping with AMICA's general standards or if 4271 No. First St" #1, San Jose, CA 95134 complaints are received indicating that said business does not serve the best interests of the members of PUBLICATIONS, Dorothy Bromage P.O. Box 275 Cape Cottage Branch, AMICA according to its goals and bylaws, Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107 flltllCfllnternotiono' CHAPTER OFFICERS AMICA International News Bulletin Volume 21 Number 6 August 1984 FOUNDING CHAPTER IOWA Pres: Phil McCoy Pres: AI Johnson CONTENTS Vice Pres: Isadora Koff Vice Pres: George Apland Treas: Bob Wilcox SeciTreas: Bob Shimp AMICA International 115 Sec/Reporter: Jack & Dianne Reporter: Jack Niewoehner People . 117 Edwards BOSTON AREA News from the Chapters 121 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Pres: Barry Kasindorf P~es: Forum 124 Pres: Warren & Rosemary Deasy Vice Judy Welsh Vice Pres: Jerry Pell Sec: Bill ~?enlgsberg Instruments 124 Sec: Holly & Peggy Hollingsworth Treas: Philip Konop Technicalities 127 Treas: Larry Norman Reporter: Donald Brown Reporter: Bill Toeppe NORTHERN LIGHTS Book Review 130 TEXAS Pres: Steve Leppa Rolls and Music 132 Pres: Bob Smith Vice Pres: Terry Goepel Vice Pres: John Morris Sec/Reporter: Barbara Leppa SeclTreas: Carole Beckett Treas: Robert & Katheryn Dum, Reporter: Wade Newton SIERRA·NEVADA The Cover: The story of the automatic harp is found MIDWEST Pres: Bob Patton in the section on Instruments. Pres: Edwin Ward Vice Pres: Doug Mahr Vice Pres: Ruth Owen Sec/Treas: Audrey Winters Sec: Lawrence & Margaret Frazer Reporter: Rick Simms Treas: Alvin Wulfekuhl CHICAGO AREA Reporter: Sue Ricca Pres: Jim Edwards 1985 CONVENTION PHILADELPHIA AREA Vice Pres: Carol Dayton DETROIT, MICHIGAN Pres: Bob Taylor & Mabel Zivin Vice Pres: Frank Diamond Sec: Bob & Gloria Taylor JUNE 17-21 Sec: Frank Basil Treas: Bill & Dee Kavouras Treas: Len Wert Reporter: Mike Ehart Reporter: Bob Rosencrans HEART OF AMERICA SOWNY (SOUTHERN ONTARIO, Pres: Ron Connor . WESTERN NY) Vice Pres: Tom Hellstem AFFILIATED SOCIETIES Pres' lanet Drewniak Sec: Leonard Railsback The Player Piano Group (England) Vice PH'S: Carl Guhlow Treas: Margar~t Taylor. The North West Player Piano Spc: Alice Guhlow Reporter: Katie Hellstem Association (England) Netherlands Mechanical Organ. Treas: Mike Walter SOUTHEAST AREA: Society - KDV Reporter: Fred Buchwald Pres: John O'Loughlin Australian Collectors of Mechanical ROCKY MOUNTAIN Vice Pres: Norman Arnold Musical Instruments Pres: Jere De Backer SeclTreas: David Burke Dutch Pianola Association Vice Pres: Bill Arthur Reporter: David Burke Society of Friends of Mechanical Sec: Rae Burdetter GATEWAY Musical Instruments (Germany) Treas: Art Tarr Pres: Del Sewell Reporter: Deane & Patty Vice Pres: Paul Stelzner Fehrman SeclTreas: Jean Wiegand BULLETIN DEADLINES FOR 1984 NEW JERSEY Reporter: Marilyn McGartland September 10 for September/October issue Pres: Oliver Vitakis October 10 for November issue Vice Pres: Lenny Finkel November 10 for December issue Rec Sec: Millie Freyer Corr Sec: Margery Vitakis Treas: John Ellems Reporter: Richard Groman I ulI~m' UEU 1m' !1,lI1llI~EI' '~i UElLS j~1 'm' I(!l' 'EU I~i 1m' U New Address for the Publisher Until I am able to publish the new phone number, you can reach me as follows: Dial area code 207lwhich is for the entire by Dorothy Bromage state of Maine) then 555-1212 and tell the information operator you want the city of Cape Elizabeth. If all goes well, the When you put all the facts into the computer and it comes operator will give you the number for DorothyBromage. If this out "Move!" then that is what you do. As of August 21, I will be strategy fails, call AMICAn Jeff Bromage, my son, at 207-799­ a resident of the state of Maine. I leave Califomia August 9 and 2021, and he or wife Chris, can tell you how to get in touch will be en route until August 21. Am taking the whole Pub­ with me. lisher job with me, along with two pianos, two organs and The next issue of the Bulletin will be the Septemberl everything else I own. October issue, witha deadline of September10. I do not foresee Here is the new address: any problem with getting the mail if everyone will change all records involving the Bulletin. See inside of back mailing -../ Dorothy Bromage, Publisher cover for assistance with this. POB 275 Cape Cottage Branch Cape Elizabeth, Maine 04107 0, U5 0 Chapter Sixteen Conventionews by Dorothy Bromage Reports of the Convention will appear in this issue of the Bulletin and the next. At the 1984 Convention in Kansas City, a new chapter was We begin with reports submitted to the Execu­ /' added to the existing count of 15 for AMICA. The Gateway tive Board at its meeting on June 20, 1984. Chapter is now official after meeting and getting organized for months. See News from the Chapters for more information on that. With Del Sewell as President, the group will conduct Vice President's Report for 1983-1984 chapter affairs in the St. Louis, Missouri area. Beginning in August, 1983, the By-Laws Committee of Roberta Cherney (Redwood City, California,) Robert Moore (Reno, Nevada,) and Molly Yeckley (Castalia, Ohio,) set to work with an exchange of letters regarding by-laws and their changes/revisions. Ideas flew back and forth until almost Christmas, when it was decided that a work session would be in order. In January, 1984, I flew to California to meet there with Robert and Bob. This was NOT done at AMICA's expense, I hasten to say. We met at Roberta's home for two consecutive sessions which resulted in some (we thought) excellent ideas. Bob Moore spent a half-day in Sacramento being shuffled from one office to another inquiring as to the AMICA by-laws currently on file there. Roberta Cherney kindly typed up the results of our work and sent copies to Bob and me. Treasurer Mike and Liz Barnhart called my attention to changes in the California code regulating tax-exempt corpora­ tions which would affect AMICA so we decided to ask advice from Tim Needler, member of both AMICA and ATOS Here is a list of charter members: (American Theatre Organ Society) which is also chartered in Robert and Carol Becker California and which recently underwent a revision of their Paul and Janice Kriwv by-laws.
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