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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
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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. Mr. Needler referred me to Preston "Sandy" Fleet, Joe Lorberg also a dual AMICA-ATOS member, who was in office at the .r'""" Marilyn McGartland time ATOS's by-laws were reworked. Bill Mikko Mr. Fleet was of the opinion that there were no published Bill and Ginger Reichert list of changes, nor was there a book of guidelines which we Del and Nor Sewell might follow. We then contacted Attorney Elizabeth Eisner of Bob and Pat Spencer San Diego, who had done the work for ATOS at a reasonable Paul and Jane Stelzner fee. Bob Moore, AMICA legal adviser, said that this was not his Trebor and Jeanette Tichenor field of expertise. Ms. Eisner has been represented to us as a Roger and Jean Wiegard legal expert in the field of non-profit corporations in the State _ Deane and Carole Wiley of California. Yousuf and Mary Wilson She quoted us a price of $700, but in the letter sent out for Fred and Gloria Zahn board approval we asked for UP to $1200 in case the job was Carl and Veronica Ringer more involved than she thought. I believe that it is important that AMICA not be in danger of losing its tax-exempt status. This would greatly affect bulle tin mailing costs, donations to archives, and future museum instrument donations. That's Great, 018! Molly Yeckley, Vice President by Dorothy Bromage 1983 -1984 Audio-Visual Congratulations to you AMICA members whose zip code Committee Report begins with 018. Beginning with the July 1984 issue, the number of Bulletin There was very little activity during the last year. Three labels for all 018 folks got up to ten. This is the magic number rentals were made; 2 of tapes and 1 of a Super 8 movie. That for speedier mail service as far as the Bulletin is concerned. All yielded a total income to the club of $15.00 for the year. labels with 10 or more having the first digits the same are (1) However, last September, Bob Taylor sent me his videotape r bundled together at the mailing party, (2) identified by the top of the Bethlehem Convention for the video library. At the time Bulletin getting a green 3 sticker and (3) moved by the Post he requested that I make him a copy of the tape, so that he Office as a unit toward the mail distribution center for the 018 would retain his record of the convention. address. Take heed, other parts of the country! The cost to the club for the VHS copy of the Bethlehem tape for Bob Taylor is $25.00. I did not bill the club for this <> 116 <> l{ICllJg~m~illCfficmICIHICCCRlC\IICffiR::OOjCCIilC\lC~Cll~~I~~ News f'-()J'" tl"e ella'IJters
GATEWAY Reporter: Marilyn McCartney
The Gateway Chapter held the sixth in a series of bi monthly meetings on Sunday afternoon, June 17th, at the home of Yousuf and Mary Wilson, in O'Fallon, MO., 20 miles west of St. Louis. About twenty members attended. During a short business meeting, President Del Sewell reported on progress made toward formal acceptance of the Chapter into AMICA International, and outlined plans to at tend the national convention in Kansas City. Music soon filled the house the Wilsons had built them selves. A barrel street piano made in Spain and pushed on a cart through the streets of St. Louis, an upright player piano, and a Tanzbar were played by the group. A short walk across the grass was a large building that Del Sewell pumping the piano while Fred 2ahn, Paul Stelzner housed a workshop for the complete restoration of player and Carl Ringer look on. pianos, our hosts' full-time occupation. A recently rebuilt and refinished Cable baby grand piano played the members' Rec ordo rolls. Among the miscellaneous upright pianos being At the October meeting in Washington, Mo., at the home repaired was a piano with a carved case, believed to have been of Paul and Jane Stelzner, members accepted the by-laws and built for the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. agreed on the name of "Gateway Chapter." The meeting had been planned for the out-of-doors, on the Roger and Jean Wiegand invited guests from the St. Louis Wilsons' extensive patio under the trees, but with the temper- Theater Organ Society to their home in December. Films on .-/ ature and the humidity both near 90, members opted for the "Great-Working of Steam Engines" from a rally Roger attended comfort of the house, where refreshments were served. The in England were shown. Many of these steam engines were hot sun did interrupt the propensity for rain that fell on all the used to power band organs and carousels at fairs and circuses. meetings to organize the new Chapter. The first attempt in the Members and their families drove to New Berlin, Illinois in St. Louis area was initiated by Del Sewell, who sent letters to April to tour the Ringer Musical Museum. The afternoon was people listed in the AMICA directory, inviting them to his spent viewing the collection as explained by Carl Ringer. His home on June 26,1983 to discuss forming a chapter. Election of son, Doug, and wife helped with the demonstration. A catered officers included: dinner was served. Del Sewell - President The next meeting will be held at the home of Fred and Paul Stelzner - Vice-president Gloria Zahn in August. This will be the first anniversary of a Jean Wiegand - Secretary-Treasurer visit to see their collection in August, 1983, and a full report will be sent for the next issue.
CHICAGO AREA Reporter: Jim Edwards
Chicago Chapter, famous for its meetings, out-did itself this Spring with a unique gathering at the home of Larry and Carol Dupon in Chicago. No, Felix did not swing with a girl on a swing ... the girl in question has been dead for years! What did go on at the Dupon household? Our hosts for the afternoon meeting have a terrific collec lean Wiegand tries her technique on the Tanzbar while Mari tion of assorted music boxes with a heavy emphasis on early lyn McGartland and Paul Stelzner watch. phonographs. Larry and Carol showed members of the chapter their extensive collection after a special presentation by Felix <> 121 <> Ganz. Felix used Larry's reproducing piano to illustrate re marks he had on the subject of reproducing piano rolls. Rolls BOSTON AREA by Bauer, Rachmaninoff, and Paderewski made of the same Reporter: Don Brown compositions were compared for their musical value. Felix, /' scores in hand, commented on the artist's skill or lack of skill The Boston Area Chapter headed south to Attleboro to in sticking to the composer's wishes. Needless to say, the open house at the grand Victorian home of Herman Bender. "legendary greats" did not let the score or a precise beat get in The group gathered in the parlor, where our host began a tour the way of what they wanted to do at the keyboard or should of his home and collection. In this room were two lady mani we say what the public wanted them to do! Dr. Ganz's talk was kins, dressed in 1800 garb, and they seemed to be real period both educational and highly entertaining. If dePachmann and hostesses. Borge had been in the audience they would have had to ac A Seeburg KT Nickelodeon, playing in the corner, was the knowledge the wit and showmanship of Felix. Those in atten piano instrument in the collection. Later, it was silenced so dance were spellbound for an hour. that we could hear a Regina 20-inch changer-musical box What about the girl on the red velvet swing? Was there an perform. Also in this room were 2 stained glass windows that embalmed girl in pink tights swinging in the comer of Larry's had been acquired before the home was bought, and these fit living room as Felix and the reproducing piano roared on? No. the window frames of the house perfectly. What was in the corner of the room was a magnificent Stella The tour moved into the foyer and to the staircase. The Orchestral Grand! This beautiful looking and sounding turned balustrade and finish woodwork complimented the machine's cabinet is of San Domingo mahogany with hand symphonion grandfather clock on the first landing. The hands
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The Stella and friend. carvings. In addition, it is of great historical interest because of its one-time owner. The Stellawas custom madefor the family of Evelyn Nesbitt - the femme fatale of the famous Thaw White murder case of the early part of this century. The story of this love triangle - jealous abusive husband, worldly ar chitect, and sweet former showgirl Evelyn - was the subject of a movie entitled "The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing" in 1954. Last year on television an adaptation of the story was shown, starring Ed Asner as the architect Stanford White. We also had a business meeting and then there was food in great abundance and variety. This summer our annual Fleaswimnic meeting will be at the home of Fred and Marcy Plank on August 12th. Sometime in October we will be gathering at the famous Clock museum in Rockford, Illinois for our last meeting of the year. Why not Marv Horowitz, Barry Kasindorj and group play KT Nickelo- / join us for one of these meetings? Trivia Question: Who played deon. the part of Evelyn Nesbitt in the movie "The Girl on the Red Velvet Swing"?
<> 122 <> Barry Kasindor{ leading business meeting.
The Hazards enjoying the arcade basement. KT Nickelodeon, invaded by Koenigsberg and friends.
were advanced to make it play its 13-inch disc, which nor mally plays on the hour. On the second landing was a desk model Samuel Troll & Fils Orchestral6-cylinder musical box with an organ section. It played "Rule Britannia" and had a repertoire of48 airs. Every part looked brand new. Next we trouped down to the finished basement, where many early 1900 penny-arcade machines were in operation. These included pin-ball machines, electric shock machines, grandmother fortune teller, electric-eye shooting gallery, Roc kola and Wurlitzer juke boxes, and more; all with buffalo nickels to operate them! After some refreshments, our President Barry Kasindorf conducted a short business meeting. Some possible summer meeting plans were discussed. The chapter enjoyed the turn of the century experience at the Herman Bender home.
Herman Bender showing his Samuel Troll desk box.
o 123 0 ,/" About the Cover (Letter from Ron Connor) New Theatre Organ Recording As you recall you asked me to photograph my harp for possible use as a Bulletin cover. As I lack a really good back ground for photos I think the enclosed drawing by Don Geyra "FATS WALLER AT THE ORGAN" includes: MOTEN: would be better. Don, who is my daughter's fiance, has been 18th Street Strutj COOK/HAYWARD: I'm Coming Virgina; visiting us for a few days and volunteered to make the drawing. JOHNSON/CREAMER: 1£ I could be with You (One Hour He is a scenic artist from New York City where he does Tonight); WALLER: Laughin' Cryin Bluesj WILLIAM/ scenery for plays, operas and movies. He is also a fine artist and WALLER: Midnight Blues; Squeeze Me; JOHNSONI has five one man shows to his credit. I jumped at his offer and I BARGER: Do it! Mister So and So; WEBB/HONESTY: Clear hope you like the results. He has drawn it with the Hoeffler ing House Bluesj Hammed: Don't Try to Take My Loving Man sign on it as it is on my harp. Hoeffler was a company which Away; GRAINGER/ROBIINS: Tain't Nobody's Bizness 1£ I Do; operated a number of instruments in the Milwaukee, Wis. area and others. and replaced the original sign with their own. "Fats" is said to have preferred the organ to the piano, but made only a few sides, the latest in London in 1938. These are not they. The sources are piano rolls that he cut in the early Wurlitzer Harp 1920s. Properly inserted in the stripped-down mechanism of a by Ron Bopp player piano, these have been fed into an improved and enlarged COMPTON THEATRE ORGAN (initially with four The fantastic Wurlitzer harp was manufactured by the J. W. manuals, a pedalboard, and 10 ranks of pipes) by a process Whitlock Company in Rising Sun, Indiana from 1899 to the whose complexities are detailed in the liner naotes. This was mid-teens. Wurlitzer sold approximately 2500 harps under its effected only after a painstaking study of Waller's own organ name and these machines were quite popular. Iniatially the recordings and other relevant documents. We are assured that Wurlitzer harps were just found in Cincinnati but, later, we can now hear "what Fats really sounded like at the taverns and ice cream parlors throughout would have a Wur THEATRE ORGAN". litzer harp. In the mid-20s Fats Waller worked as an organist at Har Today, the Wurlitzer harp is a cherished member of any lem's Lincoln Theatre. Count Basie saw him play there: "I AMICAn's collection. Unfortunately the numbers available heard a young fellow beating it out on the organ. From that are few and the price is high, therefore, the reason for the 1984 time on I was a daily customer, hanging on to his every note, AMICA Convention table favor: the chance for more of us to fascinated with the ease his hands pounded the keys and his own a Wurlitzer harp! feet manipulated the pedals." Ashton Stephens wrote that Ron Connor, our Heart of America Chaptermember, single "the organ is the favourite instrument of Fats' heart; and the handedly tackled the chore of producing the Wurlitzer harp piano only of his stomach." table favor. Isolated in Northern Arkansas with time on his This unique new release features 14 tracks originally cut hands. Ron has made a wonderful model from 22 pieces of . by Fats as piano rolls between 1923 and 1927, transposed wood and metal. through a player-piano mechanism to the Compton Theatre Musical movements were obtained from Japan with the Organ (details included on record jacket). $8.00 plus $1.50 help of AMICAn's Ben and Mary Lilien. The tune selected was postage. (Foreign postage $5.00). "In the Good Ole Summertime," since the Japanese couldn't To make this album as authentic as possible, RONALD get "Everything's Up to Date in Kansas City" pinned on a CURTIS spent many weeks studying Waller's recordings, par musical movement. ticularly his 1938 recordings made on the Compton Organ at The first parts were cut out, drilled and sanded before any H.M.V. studios, to get a feel for his techniques and choices of assembly could take place. The notches for the piano strings registrationj the results are simply breathtaking. Available were routed out with precision. Using a jig, the pieces of the from THE ORGAN LITERATURE FOUNDATION, 45 Nor -..case were carefully placed together, making sure that all sur folk Rd., BRAINTREE, MA 02184 faces lined up, and then glued together. After assembly, the basic case was ready for further assembly. In order to get the oak veneer to adhere to the case, iron-on glue was applied with
If you are touring the West Country a sharp eye on the market for additions From Paul Corin's museum at next summer you may be fortunate to the collection. He is an accomplished Liskeard, a 1933 dance hall organ and, enough to hear Ignacy Jan Paderewski, musician and can perform a rousing centre right, a fair organ, c 1910. From the famous Polish pianist, playing to tum on the Hupfeld theatre organ made Ronald Leach's museum, right, an 1894 some of the smallest audiences of his in Leipzig; the quality trade name from Polyphon and, bottom right, a musical . distinguished career. Paderewski died in the 19th century is still used by the snuffbox of 1820. 1941, but his music lives on in the form German .Democratic Republic's ofself-playing pianos that reproduce his state-owned company. the early 20th century. But the Pianola, performances complete with pedalling, Farther north and just over the manufactured by the American Aeo phrasing and expression. Devon border in Thornbury, Ronald lian Company, represents the tip of the The pianos are part of three fascin Leach displays his 20-year-old collec iceberg of mechanical music, most of ating collections of mechanical musical tion in the Devon Museum of Mechan which melted in the face of the over instruments, all to be found within reach ical Music. It includes a giant 84-key whelming success of the gramophone ofeach other in the West Country. fairground organ built in 1919 which on and the wireless set Collector Paul Corin is now 78 but a quiet night can be heard a mile away. Although evidence suggests that has been involved with mechanical Leach has raised £12,000 for various mechanical music was attempted 300 music since he was a boy at Westmin charities playing it across the country. years before the birth ofChrist, its wider ster School. When, in 1967, ill health His collection also includes tiny popularity really began in the 17th cen forced him to close down his flour mill at musical boxes, a mechanical jazz band tury, peaked in the late 19th century, St Keyne, near Liskeard, the then chair and a reproducing piano which can play and faded between the two world wars. man of Cornwall County Council en original Paderewski but which rarely The musical box owed its popularity couraged Corin to open his collection to does, due to a lack of popular demand. to Antoine Favre, a Swiss watchmaker, the public. It is now deservedly one of The summer tourists are much more who in 1796 perfected a "means of Cornwall's tourist attractions. likely to appreciate less intellectually establishing carillons without bells or The Old Mill has been converted into demanding pieces such as "If You hammers" using a tuned steel tooth an exhibition hall to display some ofthe Knew Susie" and "Tiger Rag". plucked, in the earliest examples, either magnificent instruments in the collec The third collection in the area is at by pins set in a flat wheel or by pro tion, such as the 8 ton Mortier dance Goldsithney near Penzance, where jections set in the outer surface of the organ from Belgium, the rare Hanover Douglas and Shelagh Berriman have spring barrel, producing an acceptable fair organ, and a Welte Orchestrion expanded their mechanical music col pitch within a tiny mechanism. from Germany which mimics the lection to include magic lantern and The musical box became increasingly sounds of a full orchestra through bioscope displays and an old penny popular during the 19th century, and resonators on reed stops. arcade. But their showpiece is possibly a new designs were introduced to satisfy Corin's 33-year- ".1"'-- From Ronald Leach's coUection, a 1904-05 Phonograph, a fair organ and, at right, an automatic jazz band. /' o 126 0 Technicalities Further Hot Glue Commentary by Craig Brougher Correction to article on Hot Animal Glue, May/June '84, by Craig Brougher. An error was pointed out to me concerning Alum. A slip of the pen called this Ammonium Floride, which is decidedly not true. Alum is short for Aluminum Sulphate of Potassium, and is used to make crispy pickles. Concerning some other chemicals mentioned, it occurred to me that you may not know where to buy them. Caustic soda is as old as clean people and clean clothes. Grandma used it, and it can be purchased without trembling or fear in the grocery store. The auto paint stores carry gallons of a rust remover by DuPont that is mainly phosphoric acid. It is used with steel wool to dissolve rust. Glacial acetic acid is not a nosegay unless it is deodorfied, then it has no odor at all. It is available at any local photographic supply shop. Oxalic acid is sold by the pound as a powder. You can dissolve it either in lacquer thinner or water and use it as a bleach. It will take the skin off if you use it like phosphoric acid, but follow the instructions. It is available at refinishers' supply houses, mail order and local. It is assumed that the user doesn't intend these chemicals to be ingredients in his next tossed salad. To tell readers not to drink them would be insulting anyone's good sense. Fearful souls should know enough not to buy them. Caveat! Ronald Leach operating a Celestina hand·tuned portable reed organ. by Jeffrey Morgan the efforts of more than one person, as in Music for the common man was the case ofchangeable discs. But the un· more likely to be in the form of usual thing about Ellis Parr of London pneumatic player pianos which used jets Concerning the treatise written by Mr. Brougher on hot and Paul Lochmann of Leipzig, who of air under pressure to work the notes. animal hide glue in the May/June 1984 AMICA Bulletin, I patented their inventions in England The invention of pleated cardboard within a week ofeach other in 1885, was music and paper rolls with perforations must agree with the gentleman that alum has been used for that instead offighting in the courts they which passed over pedal-operated air years as a strengthening and waterproofing additive for hot agreed to co-operate in buUding the jets and activated the hammers were animal hide glues. However, his definition of alum is danger Symphonium, the forerunner of the major developments that helped to gramophone. Its runaway success made lower the price of these mechanical ously inaccurate. Alum is defined by Reinholds' sixth edition Leipzig the new capital of mechanical instruments. The reproducing piano, a of the CONDENSED CHEMICAL DICTIONARY as: music. Even when two of Lochmann's sophisticated version of the player best workers left to set up a rival com· piano, was patronized by Paderewski, alum. Refers to hydrated double sulfates of aluminum pany, the market was big enough for along with other famous names includ both to thrive. ing Grieg, Debussy, Faure, Glazunov, and univalent metals such as potassium, sodium or At the wealthier end of the market, Mahler, Ravel and Richard Strauss. ammonium. These usually crystallize easily from so orcheslJions were being produced in Fairground organs also used perforated lutions containing proper proportions of the dissolved smaller numbers in Berlin, the Black cardboafd music and helped make the Forest and Leipzig. Many of these im· reputations of Gaviou of Paris and sulfates, the compositions being KzSO. - Alz(SO.)J pressive monsters spent their uves in the Mortier ofAntwerp. 24HzO, (NH.!zSO. - AIz(SO.)J - 24HzO, etc. These are conservatories of larger houses, and Thanks to the West Country collec distinguished as potash alum, ammonium alum. The were hand-eranked by butlers. Others tions, and also the more widel y known occupied dance halls and skating rinks Museum of Frank Holland at Brent formulas are sometimes written as KAI[SO.)z - 12HzO. .where they saved the proprietors the ford, the achievements of the past are The term alum is also applied to analogous compounds cost ofhiring a band. not being forgotten. of other trivalent metals such as iron and chromium. Thus (NHz)zSO. - Fez(SO.)3 - 24HzO is ammonium ferric alum. Aluminum sulfate itself, or its hydrates are sometimes incorrectly referred to as alums, espe cially in the paper industry. Alum, N.F. XI, refers either to ammonium alum or potassium alum. <> 127 <> The alum used for strengthening and waterproofing vari especially useful when fish glue is used, as fish glue is highly ous animal hide glues is potassium alum or, more accurately, acidic. Fish glue was used extensively by the Aeolean Corp. in aluminum potassium sulfate Ah(S04)J - K2S04 - 24H20. Am the early part of this century as well as by the Standard monium fluoride is an acidic, poisonous, active salt that, Pneumatic Action Co. during the hide glue and shellac shor- /" among other things, will even etch glass! It is assuredly not tages of World War One. alum, and grandma would have gotten into a lot of trouble with it. I would strenuously discourage anyone without extensive experience in chemistry and extensive working knowledge of Now You Can Lose various animal hide glues from fooling around with additives Those Ball Bleed Blues for hot animal hide glue destined for use in automatic musical intruments. As manufacturered today, quality animal hide by Craig Brougher glues, either for hot or cold use, are more than adequate as they are, [for glueing applications needed on automatic musi One of the cleverest innovations in reproducership has to cal instruments) without the necessity for additives. One be Clarence Hickman's Model B Ampico. Using Stoddard's should be aware that most quality hot animal hide glues al method of roll cutting, this player could not only play the ready contain a number of additives used by the manufacturer earlier rolls with perfection, but given its own specially cut to prevent mildew, limit bacterial action and optimise their roll, was even able to improve on the dynamics, having both a working characteristics. sub-intensity, which was a lowerpressure thananyreproducer Mr. Brougher may be correct in implying that glue ad had ever achieved, and an amplified intensity which raised the ditives can be useful, but in presenting this information to top power of the piano about 15-20% due to two main factors; enthusiastic amateurs and home rebuilders, especially in the no air motor to bleed away power from the pump, and a 40" form of 'folk chemistry' without accurate information, pump pressure direct to the stack. Crashes are as instantane specific formUlas, and in some cases very ambiguous mea ous as a Duo-Art but with less of a sense of anticipation, hence surements, he cannot help but encourage dubious experimen preceding subtleties are also executed with emotion and no tation. tradeoff is required to provide for a crash. Naturally, a lot of Some of the chemicals he mentions (especially glacial ace realism is dependent upon the roll, and roll quality ran the tic acid to mention only one) can be quite hazardous in inex gamut in both companies. Therefore, it is still very difficult to perienced hands; to say nothing of incurring previously unat compare instruments unless you pick a few classics which tained levels of havoc that will be wreaked on automatic were recut for the Ampico from Duo-Art masters by Aeolian musical instruments by potential experimentation by other Corporation. The question then might be: /lWas the remaster wise well-meaning rebuilders. These above mentioned situa ing perfect?/I -r tions can be even further intensified when this experimenta The purpose of the ball bleed was to do away with the tion is based on misinformation. I cannot think of a better primary valve which Ampico had always used, due to the example of the phrase /lA little bit of knowledge can be a much longer distance its valves were placed from the tracker dangerous thing. /I bar than the Duo-Art, and hence its lower sensitivity to stac Mr. Brougher does present some very useful information cato notes. (Although Welte licensee had equally long tubing concerning hot animal hide glue; however, I feel that when he runs, its-valve was better suited to it than was the Ampico.) In gets to the part about additives, a disservice could be rendered addition, the Ampico B has even longer tubing than does the to proper restoration of automatic musical instruments. model A. In a 5"4" Chickering, for example, the ave. total I might add that if your glue starts to stink, throw it out! length per note is about 5'6". Adding this bled volume to an Smelly glue is due to residual bacterial action and indicates additional chamber under the valve's pouch screen, you easily either inferior glue or a batch kept too long. It is foolish double the valve's recovery time. As a result, even in a per economy to try to save a batch of glue that is past its prime by fectly operating model B. you may find a rare roll or two that adding caustic soda, also extremely hazardous as the elevated fails to play every delicate trill or faint staccato, strictly as a temperature of the glue could intensify the exothermic reac result of the increased bled volume between the trackerbar tion that occurs when caustic soda contacts water, causing and the pouch. Although the valve is more sensitive, it is not one's face to be splattered with hot caustic soda (lye). I would quite as fast to recover. Thus, we see a new innovation: The recommend wearing appropriate safety equipment if one first intensity adjuster. This was hailed as a cure·all for sea chooses to perform this operation. sonal changes. Baloney! Ampicos are self adjusting against Hot animal hide glue should be made fresh daily! Amounts seasonal changes if restored correctly. Ampico Corp. did this prepared should be adjusted so that there is very little or to take care of the few rolls which might still be around which nothing left to throw out at the end of the day. In addition, I would play marginally in a few places. Overall, however, the wouldnever recommend heating the glue to over 1500 F. and 1 model B could outplay even the model A on its own rolls. might recommend a working temperature of 145 0 F. plus or Visualize for a moment a customer walking into a piano minus 20 F. wareroom of the 30's. He picks a couple of rolls at random and In any discussion of glue additives, one should not over proceeds to test out several pianos with them, comparing look the use of whiting (calcium carbonate, generically known performances. How many newer models of Ampico do you as precipitated chalk) as an additive to both hot animal hide think the store would sell if its latest piano failed to play the glues and fish glues. This substance has been used for years in roll the customer selected as well as the earlier models? ,"- the pipe organ industry to both extend and give flexibility to How did the instrument do this? Although this is a good glue. Italso has the ability to partiallyneutralize residual acids subject for another article, the basic key to its ability to play on in glues, thus somewhat mitigating the potential corrosive sub-intensities, (that is, intensities under which no other re action when glue is to come into contact with metal. It is producer could reliably operate without missing notesI is the ball bleed. o 128 0 CLASSIFIED KNABE GRAND REPRODUCING piano 5'8" Ampico "N' Serial 99496 October 1925 Mahogany. 81 rolls included. Restrung refinished 1962. FOR SALE All player parts intact. $6000 or best offer. Donald J. Thompson, 192 Weston Road, Lincoln, MA 01773. 617-259-0344. DUO·ART ROLL AUCTION. Well-organized new list every 2 months with many hard-to-find rolls. Accurate descriptions. Send for current FOR SALE: Collection of 120 Red Welte rolls. Classical and salon. list. Ralph Schack, P.O. Box 58806, Los Angeles, Ca. 90058. Various conditions, but generally playable. A list of titles is available, but I prefer to sell the lot for $2000.00. Michael White, 427 Cortlandt FOR SALE: 50 (fifty) original Ampico A and B piano rolls, good play Street, Houston, Texas 77007. 713-869-5762. able condition, mostly classical, large size (not Jumbo). Sell in lot only for $5.00 each. Bill Koenigsberg, 77 High Pine Circle, Concord, MA PRICES CUT! We are moving and can't take these rare instruments 01742. Phone 617-369-8523. with us, so we cut the price in half! Large Barrel Orchestrian, Vossen. Beautifully ornamented glass front. Instrumentation - piano, mando FOR SALE 25 AMPICO Popular rolls in original boxes. All rolls in good lin, wood block, tabourine and bell. 10 tunes, very impressive cabinet condition. $125.00 post paid. DON HUENE, 201 N. Valeria, Fresno, Ca. 7'10" high, 5'10" wide, 2'10" deep. $1800. LINK JUKE BOX, 10 turntables, 93701 pneumatic action, electrically amplified sound, very rare. $2000. 818 363-6573 or 213-349-4747. PLAY·RITE: QRS and Klavier rolls: 35% discount for small minimum quantities. Catalogs 25¢ each for postage. For price list write Vintage FOR SALE: 7' Oak Player Grand. Not a reproducer. Art Case. Piano Workshop, 208 Dartmouth Dr., NE, Alburquerque, NM 87106. Refinished/Restrung. Piano/Player Action Rebuilt. Best Offer. Contact Jerry Pell, P.O. Box 3, So. Laguna, CA 92677; 714/493-9579 eves. PIANO RESTORERS DREAM COME TRUE Piano decals for fallboards and soundboards (some available for the first time) can now be MUST SELL - Welte-Original 5'4" Grand, Florentine carved case with applied by both professional restorer and novice alike! No chemicals matching bench. Completely restored. $6,000.00, Richard Gurevich, needed! No solvents to apply! No messy cleanup! And you can finish 859 Elm St., Winnipeg, Canada. Ph. 204-452-7009. over immediately in lacquer or varnish! Decals are of the highest quality artwork and color. Call or write for brochure and sample. FOR SALE: 1926 Steinway XR Duo-Art grand reproducing piano, 6'2", Decals Unlimited, 9333 96th St. No., Mahtomedi, MN 55115 (612) 429 mahogany case. Instrument is original, unrestored and complete. 4465. Ivory keyboard is mint, no chips. A collector's delight $7,500.00. Bill Koenigsberg, 77 High Pine Circle, Concord, MA, 01742. Call 1 STEINWAY·WELTE grand, 1916 German made RED roll in a.6'8" Thuja 617-369-8523. wood veneer. About 150 rolls. Plays beautifully. Am planning to sell house, can't take piano with me. Carl Hillyer, Boonville, NY 13309 (315) STEINWAY GRAND DUO ART 6 ft. 1929 Excellent Condition Recent 942-2387. appraisal 20 to 25 thousand Full underneath cover. Bound Catalog of artists and recordings. 150 rolls and cabinet. Asking 20 thousand or AEOLlAN·SKINNER DUO·ART residence organ. 7% ranks, Opus 902 best offer - 805-968-4839. from about 1931. Fits into room 8' high and 8' by 10' approximate. Walnut console, rocker tabs, 47 rolls. Organ nice, player unrestored. WELTE ORGAN ROLL PLAYER. 10 roll changer. Two call boxes. 72 Was asking $8,500 last year but now only $7,500. Am planning to move. rolls. All rolls good condition and good titles. All remote machines. Car,1 Hillyer, Boonville, NY 13309 (315) 942-2387. Entire unit installed and operating. Will not split machine rolls. $30,000. Charlie Kegg, 50 West Tompkins St., Columbus, Ohio, 43202, AEOLIAN DUO·ART CONCERTOLA - 10 roll reproducing organ (614) 267-9564. player. Model 'B' Concertola in pristine operating, condition - Ser No. 362. Probably the last Concertola made. $5000. Lester L. Wolff, FOR SALE: 1925 Western Electric "MASCOT" Nickelodeon. Oak/ 1962 Hawaii Ave., N.E. St. Petersburg, FL 33703 813-525-4429 Stained Glass. Mint restored inside and out. Choice cabinet style instrument. $7200.00 OBO. Shultz 5'1"Welte. Restored top to bottom. PIANO ROLL CLOSEOUT ••• Ampico, Duo-Art & Wurlitzer. SASE Good tone and expression. $5000 OBO. Charles Poulton, 7002 Oak for list. Also entire AMICA membership list on gummed labels, 2 sets. Vista Circle, Tampa, FL 33614 (813) 885-4153. 2000+ names. $15.00. F. Cabra, 19 Keats Ct., Bethpage, NY 11714. WANTED DUO·ART 1925 STROUD UPRIGHT Completely rebuilt and re finished electric or pump $2500. Ronald Neitz, 172 Bishop St., WANTED: Dutch street organ, Hohner roll - playing accordian, Framingham, MA 01701 617-875-8352. large/small collections of mechanical musical literature. Dick Howe, 9318 Wickford, Houston, TX 77024. FREE CATALOGUES: Old piano rolls and sheet music for sale. Many scarce items. We also buy. Send stamp for each list to: RAGTIMES, Box MUSIC BOXES WANTED, cylinder and disc. Also buying monkey 367, Port Washington, NY 11050. organs, musical watches, mechanical singing birds, player organettes, etc. WurJitzer 78 rpm jukeboxes. Martin Roenigk, 26 Barton Hill, East ANNOUNCING A NEW SERVICE - ROLLS BY MAIL ORDER. AI's Hampton, CT 06424.203-267-8682. Player Roll and Piano Service. Not an auction. All types player rolls, rare, foreign, Big Band era, etc. AI Greco, Box 2329, Boston, MA02107. WANTED: Any and all Steinway Duo-Art parts. Have gutted instru Watch for ads to come in the Bulletin. ment. Price first letter. D. R. Huene, 201 N. Valeria, Fresno, CA 93701. FOR SALE: Original Duo-Art Rolls (Please Write For Price List) Also: A WANTED: Regina Music Box. Any condition. Will consider other disk . Welte-Mignon "Vorsetzer" Cabinet Player in Good, Restorable Condi and cylinder music boxes. Also want Wurlitzer Juke Box. Arnold Levin, tion. Edmund A. Hennessy, 1726 Santa Monica Road, Carpinteria, CA 2835 W. North Shore, Chicago, Illinois 60645. Phone 312-262-5965. 93013. (805) 684-3725 WANTED: Unrestored upright Ampico or Duo-Art. Don Strickhouser ./ PIANO ROLL AUCTIONS every month by mail. All types of reproduc 1634 Coral Drive, Santa Maria, CA 93454 (805) 928-7803. ing rolls plus hard-to-find rags, blues & 30's pops on 88-note. We also feature recuts of hot piano peformances on all formats plus our own WELTE LICENSEE ROLLS WANTED in good condition. Also need Hot Piano Classics of rags and jazz never before on rolls! Go with the burled walnut roll cabinet in any condition. Call collect evenings: Rick leader in the field since 1970. Free lists from Mike & Fred Schwimmer, Crandall, 313-487-9001. 1366 Huron River Dr., Ypsilanti, MI 48197. 241 Harbor St., Glencoe IL 60022. Highest Quality Parts for AMPICO & DUO-ART REPRODUCING PIANOS Direct from Manufacturer ATTENTION: DUO-ART OWNERS! EACH PerH ~ 101 Duo-Art Valve Plates - $ .60 $ 55.00 stainless steel Watch your mailboxes around Labor Day 102 Ampico Valve Plates - .45 40.00 for a special Mail Auction of Duo-Art stainless steel 103 Amhico Model B Ball Check .75 (1-10) rolls. Included are many late, hard B eeds exact replacement .70 (11 up) 65.00 to-find pop rolls from the 30's along but new stick-free design 104A-D Ampico Model A Switches - 10.00 set of 4 = 36.00 with excellent classical selections. brass 105AorB Aluminum Valve Seats - .30 28.00 We are mailing to all of you listed in specify which 106 Model A Wooden Arms for .88 78.00 the Directory (and to recent new mem Stack bers) as owners of Duo-Art instruments. 107 Teflon Inserts for Intensity 1.30 Valve Wire If you do not receive our mailing and 108 Teflon Bearings for Model A 3.00 wish to have a copy of the auction, Spool 109AorB Harwood Buttons - specify 25.00 please write and we will send you one. Ya" or 5/32" hole 110 Wooden Ends for Pneumatics .35 30.00 We have been auctioning all types of 123 Shoulder Screws for Duo-Art .40 piano rolls each month since May, 1970. - heat treated 111 Governor Tempo Slide Plate - 6.00 We feature rags, blues and pops on 88 brass note as well as all types of reprodu 112 TRANSMISSION FRAME - 40.00 bronze** cing rolls. If you wish to receive our 113 Switch Housing - bronze, 7.00 regular monthly Auctions. please tell precision machined 114 Expression Springs .75 us with your bids or drop us a note. 115 Valve Springs .20 .18 116 Pneumatic Arms & Swivels .40 MIKE and FRED SCHWIMMER for Model B 116A Swivels only .20 241 Harbor Street 117 Rubber Mounting Blocks for 16.00 = set of 4 Glencoe It 60022 Model A or B 118 Metal Angle Support 6.00 = set of 2 Brackets 151A Wood Blocks - single rod for .90 :~ Duo-Arts 151B Wood Blocks - dual rods for 1.20 Duo-Arts 152 Music Roll Automatic Punch 18.00 or .096 specify - .052, .069, .078 153 Tips for Eclipse Punch 4.00 Proud of Your Instrument? 154 Tips for Center Punch .75 Have it Restored by Experts. 156 Valve Gapping Tool 2.00 NEW ITEMS Here is what the Piano Workshop Does: 160 ConnectinPc Rods wltapered 20.00 wedges or Ampico Pump Specialize in rebuilding all types of player pianos 161 Model B Takeup Spool- 15.00 and other automatic musical instruments Aluminum Drum, prec. mach. 162 Model B Play Spool-Brass 15.00 Restring, rescale and repin instruments Drum, precision mach. 163 Model A Gaskets - finest 14.00 Replace pin blocks, soundboards, hammers and other cork available not action parts rubberoid 164 Model B Gaskets - which 14.00 hardens with age not Regulate piano action to proper specifications rubberoid 165 Early A Gaskets - which 14.00 Hand rubbed refinishing hardens with age not rubberoid Restore antiques 166 Model B Deck - which 10.00 hardens with age not Over 20 years research and development in rubberoid 167 Simplex Gaskets - which 14.00 rebuilding pianos hardens with age not rubberoid Piano keys recovered, sharps & naturals DUO-ART PUMP SPIDER ARMS rebuilt with precision sealed ball bear Send all or part of your instrument for proper ings & 8 new heat-treated support shafts. 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