The AMICA BULLETIN AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS’ ASSOCIATION JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2005 VOLUME 42, NUMBER 1

ISSN #1533-9726 THE AMICA BULLETIN AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors’ Association, a non-profit, tax exempt group devoted to the restoration, distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments using perforated paper music rolls and perforated music books. AMICA was founded in San Francisco, California in 1963. PROFESSOR MICHAEL A. KUKRAL, PUBLISHER, 216 MADISON BLVD., TERRE HAUTE, IN 47803-1912 -- Phone 812-238-9656, E-mail: [email protected] Visit the AMICA Web page at: http://www.amica.org Associate Editor: Mr. Larry Givens

VOLUME 42, Number 1 January/February 2005 AMICA BULLETIN

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AFFILIATED SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS ATOS website: http//stlouis.missouri.org/fsjoplin MUSICAL BOX SOCIETY 43 Great Percy St., London WC1X 9RA President - Fr. Gus Franklin [email protected] INTERNATIONAL England 6508 Willow Springs Road INTERNATIONAL PIANO Rosanna Harris, Editor PLAYER PIANO GROUP Springfield, IL 62707-9500 ARCHIVES AT MARYLAND 5815 West 52nd Avenue Julian Dyer, Bulletin Editor Phone: 217-585-1770 Fax: 217-585-0835 Performing Arts Library,University of Maryland Denver, CO 80212 5 Richmond Rise, Workingham, E-Mail: [email protected] 2511 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Phone: 303-431-9033 Fax: 303-431-6978 Berkshire RG41 3XH, United Kingdom Editor - Dale Baker E-Mail: [email protected] P. O. Box 51450 College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 0118 977 1057 Indianapolis, IN 46251-0450 Phone: 301-405-9224 NETHERLANDS MECHANICAL Email: [email protected] Phone: 317-838-9345 Fax: 301-314-7170 ORGAN SOCIETY - KDV E-Mail: [email protected] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION E-Mail: [email protected] A. T. Meijer Division of Musical History AUSTRALIAN COLLECTORS OF INT. VINTAGE PHONO & MECH. Wilgenstraat 24 Washington, D.C. 20560 MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MUSIC SOCIETY NL-4462 VS Goes, Netherlands SOCIETY FOR SELF-PLAYING 19 Waipori Street C.G. Nijsen, Secretaire General NORTHWEST PLAYER PIANO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS St. Ives NSW 2075, Australia 19 Mackaylaan ASSOCIATION Gesellschaft für Selbstspielende 5631 NM Eindhoven, Netherlands DUTCH PIANOLA ASSOC. Everson Whittle, Secretary Musikinstrumente (GSM) E.V. Nederlandse Pianola Vereniging MUSICAL BOX SOCIETY OF GREAT 11 Smiths Road, Darcy Lever, Ralf Smolne Eikendreef 24 BRITAIN Bolton BL3 2PP, Gt. Manchester, England Emmastr. 56 5342 HR Oss, Netherlands Alan Pratt, Editor Home Phone: 01204 529939 D-45130 Essen, Germany FRIENDS OF SCOTT JOPLIN P. O. Box 299 Business Phone: 01772 208003 Phone:**49-201-784927 1217 St. Croix Ct. Waterbeach, Cambridge CB4 4PJ Fax:**49-201-7266240 PIANOLA INSTITUTE Email: [email protected] Kirkwood, MO 63122-2326 England Clair Cavanagh, Secretary 2 President’s Message Dear friends, Winter is with us and most of us look outside our windows and wish that there were some way to make the white stuff disappear, except for the skiers who are busy riding those chair lifts…Yahoo!! But, being a member of the former group, I am beginning to long for green grass, green leaves and multicolored flowers. Since I can’t have that quite yet, I do the next best thing, which is to go through past issues of the bulletin and refresh my memory about things past, especially those items on the “To Do” list. In a recent look-through the Nov/Dec issue I didn’t have too far to go when I came across a small reminder from the Board Meeting in Denver this past August. For the past two annual Board Meetings individual members suggested that a Publications Committee be formed. This committee would assist the publisher by soliciting diverse articles of interest for inclusion in our bulletin and also might help in the editorial process. Members of the committee should be fairly conversant with a particular area of interest (eg: Welte, Duo-Art, Ampico, Nickelodeons, Organ Players, Midi, etc.) and be willing to urge others to put into print: histories, how-tos, why-nots?, new thingies, “How I almost burned the garage down when I…” and all other manner of interesting and informative articles. If you yourself are interested in being a part of this committee, or know of someone with a good working knowledge in at least one area of automatic music, please contact me by e-mail: [email protected] or by phone 716-656-9583. On another musical note, have you marked your calendar for the Minneapolis convention, June 29th through July 3rd? The tentative schedule listed on the inside cover of the Nov/Dec bulletin looks very exciting. I’m looking forward to seeing you there! AMICAbly yours, Mike Walter

From the Publisher’s Desk As some instruments in our collections reach the century mark they may be termed 'antique.' This reminds me of the importance of quality preservation and conservation of these fine and valuable instruments. Every effort should be made by all AMICAns to not only educate the public on the historical significance of our pianos and other instruments, but also to employ careful restoration and conservation techniques that will ensure the original integrity of design and function of these instruments to the delight of all! Nothing has given me more pleasure throughout my 30 years as a member of AMICA than seeing, hearing, and playing a beautifully rebuilt roll operated instrument. They sure are fun and amazing things. Please be sure to read all about our upcoming convention taking place at the end of June in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. I'm sure there will be something for everyone who participates. The conventions are truly a great benefit for being a member of our club. As always, I look forward to your articles and especially suggestions for the bulletin. I received more wonderful responses about the cover of the last issue (the Ampico Christmas roll leader) than any previously and plan on doing a series of interesting rolls leaders as bulletin covers. If you have a roll leader that you feel should be on our cover please send it to me for scanning. Yours, Mike Kukral AMICA – CONVENTION DATES –

2005 Minneapolis, Minnesota June 29 - July 3 2006 Chicago, Illinois July 25 - July 30

2007 Germany/Holland July 5 - July 20 (This is not set in stone yet. Hotels and buses are unable to commit this early, but it looks like this is.)

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think it would be of interest as an article to stay. We could ask QRS/Pianomation for AMICA, I would like to write a brief and Piano Disc to include one of one complete with a black and white our brochures along with the owner’s Dear Dr. Kukral; photo or two. Having served as associate manual. Although 95% of my customers Being a new member of AMICA, I editor of ATOS THEATRE ORGAN have pneumatic player pianos, the ones have enjoyed the publication very much. magazine many years ago, I do have that own Pianomation player pianos In the Sep/Oct issue, there is a paragraph some writing experience. Please let me play them considerably more. One in the President's Message which know at your convenience. (Pianomation) owner had the lyrics to intrigues me. I have been a long time Thanks, dozens of songs printed so people can piano and organ teacher in my Ray Brubacher sing along with the piano. community. I have in our residence a Although dropping copies of the 1931 Knabe Ampico B grand, a 1931 bulletin in waiting rooms is a good idea, Steinway Duo Art grand, a 1927 Knabe To the Editor, I feel we have to be more proactive. Ampico A grand and a 3/16 Aeolian In response to the request for ideas Don Barton, Mpls. Duo Art pipe organ. As a teacher, I make to increase membership in AMICA. continual use of the Ampico B and the Following are a couple of ideas. Duo Art with my students. They are very As I mentioned at the Denver Dear Mike, valuable teaching aids. My young convention, when rebuilders/collectors My copy of the Christmas issue of the students sit spellbound listening to them. rebuild or sell an instrument over a certain AMICA Bulletin has just arrived and I'm My older more accomplished students price, they could buy the customer a delighted with the manner in which you can hear interpretations of pieces they are one-year membership. Considering that have displayed my article. It looks great! learning. I keep the protective belly cloth a rebuild/purchase runs between $5,000- Very much appreciated. off of the Knabe Ampico A so that my $10,000, this is a fairly small price to pay Regards and best wishes of the season. kids can “peek under the hood” to see for promoting the industry. Terry Smythe, Canada how it works. No other teacher in the The hand writing is on the wall, and community has that capability. If you electronic CD player systems are here

TECH TIPS: The Rubber Band Blues Sent in by Vincent Morgan

No, this isn't the title of one of Larry But fear no more. There is a solution to be about the same, approx. $6.00 per Norman's great piano rolls, but it is a available. The Velcro Company, whom roll. This product has the soft part on common problem for those of us who we have grown to both love and loathe one side and the burr part on the other enjoy mechanical music. We have all at times, has come out with a terrific side. Simply wrap the "tie" around your experienced the frustration of melting, product that seems tailor made in solving roll so that it overlaps about an inch rotting or breaking rubber bands around this problem. The only difficulty might and cut a piece specifically to fit that our piano rolls, thus either damaging be if you hate the color green. But the particular roll. Now you have a the rolls or leaving them unprotected. Velcro Company has developed a great wonderful 1/2” wide tie for your roll Sometimes, over a period of time a new product called “Plant Ties”. It can be that will not rot, melt, dissolve, crack, rubber band will literally melt and adhere purchased at any garden supply, Home blister or in any other way self-destruct itself to the paper, making it difficult to Depot or through those countless throw or damage your roll that is tailor-made remove without damaging the roll. Even away catalogs that have the solution to for that particular roll. Continue buying new rubber bands tend to disintegrate in everything in your life. We purchased a great Blues rolls from Larry, but protect the box, often, after only a few weeks or 75-foot roll from one of those catalogs. them with Velcro plant ties. months. Some people have just given up Our local Home Depot carries only the and decided to not use them at all. 50-ft rolls. In both cases the price seems

4 MICA 2005 – MINNEAPOLIS – of “conspicuous consumption” which FOSHAY TOWER was felt throughout the United States during the economic boom years of the Theme for AMICA - Minneapolis 1920s. Convention 2005

Until 1971, shortly before Mary Tyler Foshay Facts Moore threw her hat into the air, the • It was modeled after the Washington Foshay Tower was clearly the dominant Monument. feature of the Minneapolis skyline. • Height is 447 feet. Today, although in the shadows of • The Tower is faced with Indiana many taller skyscrapers, it is still the Bedford Limestone and has 750 window bays. most interesting structure in downtown Minneapolis, both architecturally • The Tower and observation deck are located on the 31st floor. and historically. The Foshay Tower in Minneapolis from 1929-1971. • One of a half dozen open air observation deck and museum are on The Foshay Tower is significant to observations decks in the U.S. our Thursday itinerary. Minneapolis not only as a unique • The “Foshay” lights are 10 feet high example of architectural design and The Foshay Tower was the first and 44 feet across. They are lit by skyscraper built west of the Mississippi engineering, but as a prominent 976 60-watt bulbs. and remained the tallest building reminder of the taste and expression

INTRODUCTION

The Northern Lights Nicollet pedestrian and shopping mall. Marshall Fields and Neiman Marcus. Chapter of AMICA cordially invites you You will be within blocks of the famous Minnesota is a great place to do your to the AMICA Minneapolis Convention Tyron Gutherie Theater, the Warehouse clothes shopping since we do not have a June 29 through July 3, 2005. We have entertainment district, and scores of sales tax on clothing. put together an exciting convention restaurants ranging from fast-food For more information contact: with wonderful sightseeing (in both to Murray’s 1950’s style fine steak AMICA Mpls. 2005, c/o Don Barton, Minneapolis and St. Paul), entertainment, restaurant. In addition, the Marriott is 2715 Fourth St. S.E., Mpls, MN 55414, and workshops, some of which are two blocks from our new transit line that 612-378-1102, [email protected] described in following articles. is connected to the airport and the Mall Our convention hotel is the of America. During off-peak hours, $1.25 Minneapolis Marriott City Center which will take you to and from the is connected to City Center Mall and airport as well as to the Mall of America. 56 city blocks via skywalks. It is located Besides the 100 or so stores in the a half-block off of the 15 block long Mall of America, downtown is home to continue. . . 5 Miss Jane’s Parlor and Organ Concert at the Historic Heights Theater Thursday afternoon we will spend 1980’s, succumbing to the onslaught of antique chandeliers with 2600 Egyptian two hours at the Heights Theater suburban theaters, the Heights became lead crystals. An 8’ by 26’ orchestra pit enjoying a silent film, organ concert, home to 99-cent movies. was uncovered. and turn of the last century songs In 1998, the theater was purchased by The crowning touch of the restoration sung by Jane Romanos, was the installation of the accompanied by QRS’s own former WCCO Radio Wurlitzer Bob Berkman on the Pianola Pipe Organ. Originally installed Push-Up. This production by in 1929 at the Nicollet Hotel Pianola Enterprises has not Studios, the organ was moved to been performed since the New WCCO’s at 625 Second Ave., Orleans Convention and we are then removed and installed in a very excited to be able to present residence on the East Coast. The this program to our fellow organ was then purchased by the AMICAns. Land O’ Lakes Theater Organ The Heights Theater was Society. A.T.O.S. members have constructed in 1926 by Gluek volunteered 100’s of hours Brewery heir Arthur Gluek. installing 14 ranks of pipes, Built in the Beaux Arts style, the assorted percussion stops, and Heights was a simple neighborhood Dave Holmgren and Tom Letness, who organ lift. Eleven to eighteen additional house running film full time and show lovingly restored it to it’s original glory. ranks are planned for future installation. casing local talent in stage plays. By the Suspended from the ceiling are restored

Cafesjian’s Carousel - Como Park St. Paul, Minnesota Cafesjian’s Carousel was built in 1914 A new home was by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. built for 1.1 million This carousel, with its 68 hand-carved dollars in Como Park. wooden horses, graced the Minnesota It was moved, and State Fair for 75 years. In 1934 it was remains there for the saved from a severe fire that burned part public to enjoy. of the building in which it was housed. You will have the In 1988 a massive community effort, opportunity to enjoy and a generous financial donation (from this historic carousel Mr. Cafesjian) saved the carousel from with its Wutlitzer being auctioned off piecemeal. It was 153 Band Organ on purchased for 1.2 million dollars, Friday, July 1, 2005 www.ourfaircarousel.org carefully restored and placed in St. when you attend the Paul’s Town Square Park. After several AMICA Convention in Minneapolis next years it was decided that a better home summer. with more public visibility was needed. continue. . . 6 Minnesota Transportation Museum

The Minnesota Transportation and the Mill City Museum in downtown Museum was started by a small group of Minneapolis. dedicated volunteers who wanted to The Jackson Street Roundhouse will restore a wooden streetcar to original be toured on Friday, July 1, 2005. It was condition. In 1962 the museum was built by the Great Northern Railroad in formally incorporated as a non-profit 1907 to service their passenger-steam organization. locomotives. You will see steam and Northern Lights Chapter member Bob diesel engines being restored, experience Dumas volunteered hundreds of hours unique modes of rail transportation, helping to restore streetcars, a steam explore restored railcars, railroad exhibits powered boat and train engines which and model railroads. Even the turntable makes this museum even more special to has been restored. Also, time permitting our chapter. that day, we will stop and ride the Today, MTM’s guests can ride fully Como-Harriet streetcar between Lakes restored streetcars at two locations in the Harriet and Calhoun. Twin City area, cruise Lake Minnetonka www.mtmuseum.org on a steam powered boat, charter a classic city bus, travel the beautiful St. Croix Valley aboard a vintage train, and explore full-size railroad cars at an historic roundhouse. This variety serves to define MTM’s mission: To preserve Minnesota’s rich transportation history. On Thursday, June 30, 2005 you will be shuttled by one of MTM’s classic city buses from the hotel to the Foshay Tower

A Step Back in Time

The 2005 AMICA Convention in and his son Louis, built fabulous Mertesdorf concert pianist. After the Minneapolis and St. Paul will include a mansions on St. Paul’s Summit Avenue. concert and tour of the Hill/Nicholson step back in time with a tour and dinner After our tour of St. Paul Railway Mansion, we will gather for the best reception in the St. Paul JAMES J. Museum, we will gather at the first Hill fireworks display of Taste of Minnesota HILL MANSION and DOVE HILL Mansion for a tour and dinner reception. on the gallery of the mansion. MANSION of AMICA members Richard Within a short walk we will gather at the The James J. Hill House symbolized and Nancy Nicholson. home of the Nicholson’s for dessert, the success of a railroad tycoon also The Great Northern Railroad had its a concert on the ballroom Aeolian known as the EMPIRE BUILDER, a inception in St. Paul, Minnesota, under pipe organ by Northern Lights chapter passenger train which runs between St. the guidance of James J. Hill. Mr. Hill president, Phillip Baird and David Paul and the west coast. The home is

continue. . . 7 continued. . . on a grand scale of any major city railway station built in 1891 which is the largest and most expensive on St. Paul’s Summit Avenue. Included in the home, made up of 36,000 square feet, of which we may take a ramble before dinner of Scandinavian fare is served. Ample are the 13 bathrooms, of course which AMICAns may avail themselves. After our dinner, AMICAns will stroll through the gardens to the home of the son of James J. Hill, Louis W. Hill, who followed his father as president of the Great Northern Railroad. Louis Hill built Romanesque style. Completed in 1891, Nicholson’s lineage isn’t the only trait his home in two phases. The main house the mansion was the largest and making him a perfect fit for the house. was built in 1902, and an addition was most expensive home in Minnesota. It “I love history,” he says. added in 1912, which included the grand contained 36,000 square feet on The house offers plenty of it. Built in entrance and a ballroom with a 2000 pipe five floors including 13 bathrooms, 22 two phases, 1902 and 1912, the latter half organ. Many guests, world leaders, and fireplaces, 16 crystal chandeliers, and containing, among other features, an royalty passed through the entrance and two-story skylit art gallery, a 100-foot entrance hall, a second-floor ballroom were engaged in some of the most lavish reception hall, and a profusion of with baronial fireplace and 2000 pipe parties ever held in St. Paul. elaborately carved oak and mahogany organ, and a basement swimming pool. Fortunately, Richard and his wife woodwork. The final cost of this massive Since Nicholson bought the house - for Nancy have restored this beautiful undertaking was $931,275.01 including $1.7 million, he’s been digging around home and have graciously offered an construction, furnishings and landscaping documents and diaries at the James opportunity for a concert on the house for the three-acre estate. J. Hill Library for connection between organ and again step back in time for us the Hills and Ordways. Richard and all to recapture a little of the past of what Louis W. Hill House his wife Nancy have been involved St. Paul once was. We of the Northern St. Paul family reclaims old in total restoration of the home and Lights Chapter invite our fellow house/Richard Nicholson and his family its pipe organ. AMICAns to come and taste a little reside in the historic Summit Avenue The 2005 AMICA Minneapolis - Minnesota. No snow will be forecast. mansion where his great-grandparents St. Paul Convention will include dinner once socialized with the brightest lights in the first mansion and a concert and James J. Hill House of St. Paul society. dessert reception in the Hill-Nicholson Rugged stone, massive scale, fine The home at 260 Summit Avenue, DOVE HILL home. detail and ingenious mechanical systems built for the second son of railroad recall the powerful presence of James For more information on these homes go to tycoon James H. Hill, now is the http://www.mnhs.org/places/sites/jjhh/house.html J. Hill, builder of the Great Railway. residence of Richard Nicholson, great- This was a family of the Gilded Age. grandson of Lucius Pond Ordway, one of Completed in 1891, the red sandstone the early investors of 3M, a partner in the residence was the setting of the public wholesale plumbing company of Crane and private lives of the Hill family. Mr. and Ordway, and the man instrumental Hill oversaw the massive Richardsonian in building of the St. Paul Hotel. continue. . . 8 Pavek Museum of Broadcasting

The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting include a working 1912 rotary spark-gap technology. From the earliest days of houses one of the world’s finest transmitter, similar to the one used the phonograph to talking pictures to collections of antique radio, television, aboard the Titanic, crystal radios of the the revolution of magnetic recording, and broadcast equipment. The Pavek early Twenties, a chronologically ordered the Mullin Collection preserves the has gained international recognition for collection of vacuum tubes (including entertainment technology that has its continuing efforts in preserving and several of the original deForest Audions), forged the cultural achievements of documenting the history of an industry and one of the most extensive treasuries the modern era. that has made monumental changes in the of radio literature ever assembled. Some of the items include one of fabric of modern life. Other attractions include the Charles the first RCA Theremins ever made, the The foundation is the Joseph R. Bradley Collection, representing more actual record lather used to cut the discs Pavek Collection of more than one than sixty radio manufacturers from the for “The Jazz Singer,” and a replica of thousand radio receivers, transmitters, Twin Cities area, and the Jack Mullin Edison’s very first phonograph. (Text and televisions from the first half of Collection, documenting one hundred adapted from Pavek Museum website.) the Twentieth Century. Highlights twenty-five years of audio recording

Person with Experience in the Advertising Field to Solicit Advertisers for the AMICA Bulletin. Candidates should be Energetic and Enthusiastic. Direct monetary compensation is poor but long-term rewards are good. More advertisements in the bulletin mean fewer increases (and possibly decreases) in annual dues for our members. For more information, or to apply for the position, please contact our publisher, Mike Kukral, at [email protected] or by phone at (812) 238-9656

9 By Edward Copeland IPED IN MUSIC OF 1914 The Louis W. Hill mansion, located on (great) and Manual III Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota (choir) are on a is the location of a fine “untouched” duplexed chest on the Aeolian residence pipe organ. This right side of the case marvelous instrument is a fine example (as one looks at the of Aeolian organs from the teens. Opus case) and Manual II number 1294, Rollin Smith’s Book, The (swell) is located to Aeolian Pipe Organ And Its Music lists the left center of the organ in the opus list as being a the case, with the 3 manual, 38 rank instrument, with the pedal pipes to the original contract being signed January left side inside the 10, 1914, and the organ being shipped case. All of the August 20, 1914. The organ originally divisions are enclosed was equipped with 2 consoles, a 3 except for the Here is the case containing the main organ. The case is finished manual with 116 note roll box is located main pedal, which with fumed oak. The grandfather clock stands 9 1/2 feet tall. in the ballroom on the second level, is unenclosed. and at one time a 2 manual console was The current owners of the house, the rolls that provide complete control of located in a corner of the dinning room. Nicholson family has spent considerable the organ could be played back. The The 2 manual console was later removed. time and effort in the restoration of the installation of the MIDI playback Louis Hill, son of railroad magnet rest of the house, and as they consider the system is done in such a way that it is James J. Hill was an accomplished artist organ to be part of the house, they have completely reversible so that with ease and patron of the arts. His love for music allocated funds to restore the organ to the organ can be returned to it original was a factor in choosing the organ for playable condition. Special attention has state. Mike Ames has provided his home. When he chose the Aeolian been paid to keeping the organ as original much information about using MIDI Company to provide the organ, he as possible, and several builders have with Aeolian organs, as well as being wanted an instrument that was capable of been turned away when they suggested a source for the 176 note MIDI files. reproducing the finest music available, adding a solid-state relay system to the Midiator Systems of California built and this is one of the reasons for the size organ. One factor has lead to solid-state the Midi interface. All the playback of the instrument (38 ranks was a fairly components being installed so that MIDI equipment is located in the console. The large organ by common residence organ files of the Aeolian Duo-Art 176 note reasoning behind this was so that the standards, with most being in the organ could be left unattended while 12 to 15 rank size). The organs playing. The original 116-note system pipes are located in 2 locations. The has been restored, but due to the majority of the organ is located in nature of the system, it requires a large case at the north end of the constant attention. This is because ballroom, opposite of the 3 manual the Aeolian 116 note rolls have no console, and there is also an Echo provision for stop or expression division located in a chamber, which changes, so someone must change speaks out over the grand staircase. the stops (suggestions are printed on The organ features the Aeolian the roll). The roll mechanism also simplified stop names (String MF, does not have any sort of automatic tracking (someone must guide the roll String P, Flute MF etc), and has a The console of op. 1294. Finished in fumed oak, and “blind” but adjustable combination equipped with horizontally rocking tablets for stop by means of a small “steering wheel” control. The roll box is located in the top center, action, with the setter board located located below Manual III (the lowest with the glass door closed. inside the main organ case. Manual I keyboard).

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The restoration began in 2000 with I assisted Don Barton with various and English horn, but also an orchestral local builder and organist Karl facets of the project. Being familiar with oboe, a pair of fine trumpets (one is Eilers restoring the console and it’s working on historic organs in the area, capped) and a couple of other reeds components, as well as the regulators and one of which had been the Minneapolis which are built in the traditional style swell engines. Work paused for a short Auditorium Kimball (5-4/123), and I of organ reeds. Work still continues time due to some major health issues knew what it would take to keep this on the MIDI playback at the time of both in the Nicholson family and with organ in original condition. writing this article, and is expected to Mr. Eilers. Work resumed in the summer The organ still has cone tuned treble be completed shortly. All concerned with of 2004 when Barton Player Pianos of pipes, and is completely straight the restoration are looking forward to Minneapolis took on the job of restoring (there are no unit stops anywhere in the having the work completed in advance of the harp and installing the MIDI system. instrument). It has several interesting the convention next summer. As an organ builder of 20 plus years ranks, the ever popular free reed clarinet

Stop List for Aeolian Pipe Organ 1294 Louis W. Hill of Saint Paul, Minnesota

Manual I & III Manual II Echo Pedal Diapason F Horn Diapason Diapason MF Deep Diapason 16* Diapason MF Vibrato String F String MF* Deep String 16 String F String F String P Deep Flute F 16 String MF Mixture String P Flute P Deep Flute P 16 Flute F Flute MF High Flute 4* Deep Bassoon 16 Flute P Flute P* Clarinet* Flute* String P High Flute 4 Trumpet* (Echo) Deep Flute 16 String PP * Vibrato String P Vox Humana* Quintadena Flute * String PP Tremolo High Flute 4 Deep Flute 16 Piccolo 2 Trumpet ** Echo to Manual I Clarinet English Horn Echo to Manual II Trumpet Oboe ** Orchestral Oboe ** Tremolo Tremolo Vox Humana F Vox Humana P*

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11 By John Motto-Ros OLLECTING PIANO ADVERTISEMENTS It appears the lady of the house was How many are out there? I don’t Collecting can be a form of a disease . the target of most piano dealers, but some know, but I have 200+ small items with It can consume houses and families, both men must have gone piano shopping as a piano ads with different brand names in young and old. Belonging to AMICA small percentage of the mirrors have various configurations. How to display? puts you in the collecting category— beautiful women on them (see photos). I have some in deep picture frames using pianos, rolls and other music-related The salesman had something for either foam core as a spacer and a dab of RTV items. That’s OK; it gives us something sex. As individuals shopped for pianos in to hold them. Most are on small wooden to look for on vacations, weekend the showroom, the salesman would easels (made myself) in eye level wall outings; and now, eBay. I call all of the reward them with a small purse mirror cases. I like to take them out, touch them, things that we all look for “stuff.” Most with the piano name and dealer name and look at different ones from time to of us have friends with “stuff.” Some and address. Some piano manufacturers time. have entire houses full of it, and others must have had big advertising budgets. A word about collecting: If you can have had to add on a room or rooms Schaeffer for one; I have one mirror that see and touch the item, that is the best. If for the additional “stuff.” I fall into the reads “over 140,000 sold,” and a later the item is in a drawer or closet where it “all of the above” category. one reads “over 200,000 sold.” Another cannot be seen, it is no fun owning it. For the last 20 years, I have collected item given out was a token good for $10 small piano advertising items. Photos in trade if a new piano was purchased. shown are advertising mirrors with Some of the mirrors are beveled. the piano name and the dealer that sold Today most are in poor condition on the them on the back. They were produced mirror side as they were originally done in various sizes, but were usually with the mercury silvering process, but about three inches in diameter. Other it is the advertising side that is the advertising items included celluloid collectible. bookmarks, stamp holders, tape Pump organ companies did the same measures, toy tops, celluloid calendars, as I have a few mirrors that advertise and more. Some may ask how many organs. A very early organ advertisement small advertising items for pianos are from Bridgeport Organ Co. is a pen out there? Quite a few; between 1900 and wipe in the shape of an Irish setter. It is 1940, there were 1,200+ stencil piano folded celluloid with blotter material names in America. Pianos were very inside (see photos). I have several glass popular and there were many dealers paperweights advertising pianos. One is throughout the country. for Wurlitzer. The Kimball is a cloth tape measure. The Packard Co. is a stamp holder; yes, the same as Packard car company . The dog (front side) is a pen wipe.

Here are a few examples of mirrors and other advertisement items. The dog (back side) is a pen wipe. The coin is How to good for $10.00 at the time of purchase Display on any piano or player piano at Krausgill Piano Co., Louisville, KY.

12 Sent in by Christy Counterman & Michael Barnhart YNOPSIS OF “MECHANICAL MUSIC” by Kevin McElhone

The sound of a street “barrel organ” or for a very reasonable cost. The 4”x 8” a fairground organ may revive distant paperback book is an excellent memories for older folk or stir an introduction to all aspects of automatic interest in younger people. Wealthier musical instruments including history, families may have possessed their own descriptions, and basic principles of automatic musical machines in the form operation. The book has 48 pages with of a player piano, a Polyphone, Regina, over 100 color photographs including a or cylinder music box. If well treated, photograph of J. Lawrence Cook at his these instruments may still be in working arranging piano. The book is ideal to order. This book covers the history, acquaint individuals to automatic music development, use, and fall from favor and encourage prospective collectors to of many types of exotic instruments, participate in AMICA. AMICA members from pocket-sized musical boxes to who host groups and individuals for roll-playing pipe organs, and everything display and demonstration of their else in between. It describes pianolas, instruments should have a number of organettes, roller organs, orchestrions, copies on hand to make available to carillons, and many more. It introduces people that wish to learn more and/or a complex subject in a way that will have a memento of their visit. Each book encourage readers to visit collections will be provided with a large AMICA open to the public or join one of the label on the inside front cover and societies that encourage restoration of an AMICA membership pamphlet insert. instruments to their former glory. The book is to be provided at cost Contact: Mike Barnhart including postage within the continental 919 Lantern Glow Trail ANNOUNCEMENT US for $6.00 each for 1 to 9 copies and Dayton, OH 45431 As an AMICA project, the Midwest $5.00 each for 10 or more copies. Phone 937 254-5580 Chapter has available copies of the book Payable by cash or personal check made e-mail [email protected] “Mechanical Music” by Kevin McElhone out to Michael Barnhart.

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13 Sent in by Ron Bopp Carousel Organ, Issue No. 22 — January, 2005 A Pilgrimage to the Kring van Draaiorgelvrienden’s (KDV) 50th Anniversary

Liz Barnhart he KDV is a Dutch society for the preservation of fair canal. Several canal boats would pull up to the bank and people organs, street-organs, dance hall organs, orchestrions and would come into the park to hear the music. The street, dance, Tother automatic musical instruments as well as their his- and fairground organs and one Raffin trumpet monkey organ tory and development. were fully enjoyed by the many people in the park on a beauti- We (Mike and Liz Barnhart) arrived in Amsterdam on ful sunny day. We spent the afternoon admiring and listening to Friday, May 28th, 2004. We were traveling with Frank and the organs. Our conversations with the friendly organ people Shirley Nix for the purpose of attending the Kring van were mostly limited to smiles, nods, and hand gestures. Draaiorgelvrienden’s (KDV) 50th Anniversary. Our base for the 10 days in Holland was the small family operated Ouwi Hotel in Utrecht. From there we could easily drive to all the cities that were holding organ festivals. Parking is very expensive and almost impossible to find in Utrecht. We had very little detailed information on the KDV activi- ties and discovered early on that the KDV members familiar with their country already know where their organ festivals are always held so there are no maps or directions to the various venues. When asked for specific locations the answer was in general terms, such as, “across from the train station” or “in the park along the canal.”

Figure 2. Hans van Oost, Frank Nix and Ron Schmuck in a lively discussion invoving organs.

On Monday we went to Haarlem where we met up with Hans van Oost (Figure 2), the General Secretary of the KDV, and Maartin Van Der Vlugt whom many Americans know. The organ festival was held in a long narrow park between a busy street and a canal. About 17 organs were present representing many different European organ builders. Again, it was another warm and sunny day and we had a good time taking photo- graphs of the organs and listening to them. At the conclusion of the day, we were invited over to the Kunkle Museum, now in its new building, where the playing of many organs continued.

Figure 1. De Grote Gavioli as it appeared in Amsterdam on Dom Square next to the palace. On Sunday May 30th, we drove to the northern city of Leeuwarden for the Great Organ Event. After driving around for awhile, we saw a circus sign and followed it hoping some- one there might know something. At the circus booth was a fel- low buying tickets for his family to attend the circus later that day. As luck would have it, he had traveled to the US several times and spoke good English. He used his cell phone to call his sister who happened to know about the organ rally, so he got in his car and led us to the park. Several hours later, we saw him there with his family. He had decided to find out what it was all about. In Leeuwarden there were about a dozen organs, including Figure 3. The 52-key Veronica playing at the new Kunkle Museum De Grote Gavioli (Figure 1) situated in a grassy park along a building.

14 Carousel Organ, Issue No. 22 — January, 2005 The museum has large dance organs and Dutch street organs arranged around the three sides of a single room with the middle filled with tables and chairs. In all there were about 10 organs in the museum. A well-stocked snack bar with a grill was enjoyed by everyone. The De Grote Gavoli brought over from York, England played in front of the building through a large open bay door. After De Grote Gavioli played for about an hour the relatively small street organ, the 52-key Veronica, was wheeled in by its young owner with the help of friends. Then the party really got rolling with singing and dancing to the music. It was great to see the line of people waiting to have their chance at turning the wheel, especially since so many were Figure 4. A 1960s photo of De Grote Gavioli showing the Waerts young people. They were having a good time with the small brothers in front of the organ. Photo: Maartin Van Der Vlugt organ surrounded by a room full of larger organs standing silent. We are sure their fun was increased by the large amount A history currently accompanying the organ is as follows. of beer available. The organ, an original 89-key G4 Scale Gavioli, built in On Tuesday morn- Waldkirch circa 1906, is now owned by Nigel Myers and family from Rufforth, York. The organ was supplied new to Dresden Showman Carl ing we met with the Patty and sometime during the 1920’s the organ was purchased by new museum conserva- Dutch Showman, Reinhard Dirks, and was taken to Holland. Dirks tor, Bob van Wely, who used the organ in his Lunapark attraction and later in a set of dodgems. will be officially taking It was he who sent the organ to Carl Frei to have it rebuilt and extend- the place of the retiring ed. Jan-Jaap Haspels at the After the war the organ was no longer used and it was purchased Nationaal Museum van for preservation by Henri Bank and Theo van Zutphen who tried to Speelklok tot Pierement interest the town of Haarlem in adopting it as a municipal organ. This plan failed and the organ passed into the hands of A & J Waerts of in Utrecht. Jan-Jaap Assendelft who then sent it to the Perlee family for restoration. It was Haspels is being at this time that the organ acquired the name De Grote Gavioli, mean- replaced by two posi- ing The Great Gavioli. Further alterations were made and the front was tions, an administrator decorated by Gils Perlee in his characteristic style. The Waerts brothers and Bob van Wely as enjoyed great success with their newly restored instrument touring not technical director. Bob only the Netherlands but also as far as Fountainbleu, France and is a very personable Bremen, Germany. young man and among The surprise sale in 1963 of de Grote Gavioli to England, follow- ing an advertisement in the showman’s newspaper, The World’s Fair, his many talents, he can by enthusiast Derrick Londrigan, aroused strong feelings amongst the play the carillon. Bob Figure 5. Bob van Wely, the future tech- Dutch organ fraternity, many of who called for greater protection told us that he played a nical director of the National Museum against the export of organs from their country. van Speelklok tot Pierement in Utrecht. carillon somewhere When the organ was initially offered for sale within the north of Cincinnati, Netherlands, a plan was formulated to buy it within a foundation or Ohio, while on tour in trust. Unfortunately the payment terms could not be met quickly the US. He was not sure exactly where it was. The only carillon enough, and the organ was sold to Arthur Mason, of Burnham Market, that we know of is in the Deeds Carillon Park in Dayton Ohio. Norfolk. Even while the Gavioli was being loaded at the docks in On Thursday we took the train to Amsterdam where there Rotterdam, legal attempts were being made to prevent its leaving Dutch soil. Although unsuccessful, these efforts sowed the seeds for the sub- was to be organ playing in the square in front of the Royal sequent protection which the Dutch Government affords today to a Palace from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Only De Grote Gavioli was there. selection of historic mechanical organs in the Netherlands. The organ Many people were around to enjoy the music as well as the became the centerpiece of Arthur Mason’s private collection, soon win- street mimes that pretend to be statues. They were having a ning the hearts of British enthusiasts and a new circle of devotees was good day collecting coins from the onlookers. We also had the quickly formed. Shortly before Mr. Mason’s death, the organ was sold pleasure of talking with Andrew Pilmer and his wife who had to the Bygone Village at Fleggburgh, where it became one of the many come over to Holland from England. attractions at this unique venue. However, its future became uncertain Thursday we drove to Doesburg, a small town east of again in 1996 when the instrument was put up for sale. Quick action enabled Nigel Myers to acquire it in July of that year. Arnhem that was having a street festival with the help of four Following extensive restoration by A.C. Pilmer Automatic Music organs, one of which was De Grote Gavioli. Even there we had (Leasing) LTD and the building of a purpose built display, which was to drive around to find the festivities. Rain showers dampened all completed in 1999, the organ has been heard at events all over the activities; however, every one had a good time. England, including the famous Great Dorset Steam Fair. One highlight Friday afternoon we drove to Tilburg and found it was occurred in June, 2002, when the organ made a historic journey to the much larger than we expected. We drove around and around town of its birth, Waldkirch in the Black Forest, to attend the 7th with the windows down trying to hear music. We finally, in International Organ Festival. For a short while the organ was played directly outside the former Gavioli factory, premises in Lange Strasse, the first time that it had been there in more than ninety years.

15 Carousel Organ, Issue No. 22 — January, 2005 placed on display. The bass of the organ was awesome to say the least. Even when no music was being played the thumping and breathing sound of the feeders was intimidating. Ron Schmuck of Canada gave a short talk in English, which most of them didn’t understand and he presented Hans van Oost, the KDV Secretary, the congratulatory plaque from COAA. Hans was chosen as the recipient since the KDV President doesn't speak English. Hans was somewhat caught off guard by his sudden appointment as the KDV representative. Following the ceremonies, everyone toured the museum where guides were available to play the many instruments, particular- ly the organs. Sunday found us at the Openluchtmuseum (Open Air Museum) in Arnhem. The Openluchtmuseum is the Netherlands equivalent to the U.S. Henry Ford Greenfield Village in Michigan. It is a huge park with more than 80 buildings includ- ing houses, farm build- ings, blacksmiths, a trolley barn, and wind- mills brought in from different parts of the country. The park has a collection of vintage trolleys that operate on a track that runs the length of the park. The Figure 8. Figure 6. Maartin Van Der Vlugt of Tilburg. park also has a vintage 1920 style carnival frustration, decided to give up looking for organs and go eat setup (Figure 8) complete with rides, games, fairground organs, lunch. On the way to lunch we came across De Grote Gavioli in attractions, gypsy wagons (Figure 9), and food stands. The park a little town square. Some people just have lucky streaks. represents a unique view of daily life and work in the Maartin Van Der Vlugt was also there since his home is in Netherlands over the past 250 years. The occasion was the Tilburg. He told us he would not be in Arnhem on Sunday National Draaiorgeldag the premier KDV Organ Rally held at because there was an organ festival in Switzerland that same the park every year. Liz spent her time taking pictures of the weekend and he would be there with Fredy Kuenzle. We have many Dutch windmills on the property. The rest were busy met with Maartin on many occasions, but we have never seen or heard his organ. Friday evening was the KDV cele- bration at the National Museum in Utrecht. Many speeches were given and enjoyed by the large crowd, but we just smiled politely since every word was Figure 7. De Schuyt, a 105-key Carl Frei in Dutch. Several dance organ premiered at the KDV celebra- Figure 9. Mike and Liz Barnhart pose people were inter- tion in Utrecht. viewed for a radio with a horse-drawn gypsy wagon. broadcast about their work with organs and also four young men who had composed new music for organs. Each piece was checking out the more than two dozen organs from all over played on the very large Carl Frei 105 key dance organ, De Holland, and of course, De Grote Gavioli from York, England. Schuyt, through a MIDI interface and the winners were The organs were scattered all over the Park. The day was again announced. The competition was so close that the winners were beautiful and sunny. The other time we were at the park with awarded 2nd and 3rd places only. Evidently, in Holland they Bopp’s Bumbling Bruder Tour, it was pouring down rain with a don't give a first place when the results are that close. De Schuyt few organs bravely playing under their protective tarps. was formerly a Mortier that has recently been restored and

16 Carousel Organ, Issue No. 22 — January, 2005 water proof tarp. The tarp is kept handy on top of the organ where it can be quickly unfolded to cover the organ in case of inclement weather, which happens quite often.

Dutch street organs are characterized by their compact size for conveyance on a three-wheel pushcart or small open two-wheel trailer.

The organs with figurines have brass rails to hold the tarp away from the fragile carvings. Dutch street organs are book-operated, pumped by a hand crank on a large fly- Figure 10. A Limonaire Dutch street organ. wheel. Most organs mounted on small trailers have a large One may wonder what is uniquely a Dutch street auxiliary battery operated DC motor that can be belted to organ. The answer is obvious. Holland, being mostly the flywheel. When the batteries are discharged, the belt reclaimed ocean is slipped off the bottom land, has flywheel and the the only cities organ continues with streets level to be played by enough for one or the proven two men to push “Armstrong” the heavily method. loaded organ The reader carts around. may be disap- Many of the pointed by the Dutch street lack of detailed organs started out information on originally made individual organs in Germany and participating in elsewhere by the KDV 50th well-known anniversary cele- builders as carni- bration. Neither val style organs of us is qualified to evaluate indi- designed to Figure 11. A newer Gijs Perlee Dutch street organ with brilliant carving and colors. attract large vidual organs. crowds. These organs were too loud to play in narrow city We were there to look, listen, and enjoy the organs streets. The organs were, by necessity, customized and (Figures 10 - 16). Small, medium, or large each organ, soft-voiced by Dutch and Belgium organ builders to play vintage or new, in its own way was fantastic. The façades sweetly, suitable for city dweller's enjoyment. Dutch with their shapes, colors, and figurines were spectacular. street organs are characterized by their compact size for Black and white photographs do not do them justice. With conveyance on a three-wheel pushcart or small open two- individually arranged book music each organ had its own wheel trailer. A few trailers even had a small auxiliary personality that we could listen to for hours, but there was gasoline engine attached to a steer-able wheel that could only time to take quick digital photographs and a short lis- move the trailer around without being towed. The top and ten. Almost every organ operator offered CD and tape side panels of a Dutch street organ façade can be folded recordings. There were so many that we could only pur- down and back to facilitate storage and covering by a chase a small sample.

17 Carousel Organ, Issue No. 22 — January, 2005 On Monday we had an appointment to meet with the GSM (Gesellschaft fur Selbstspielende Musikinstrumente e.v.) President, Ralf Smolne and their representa- tive Walter Tenten in Germany so it was time to bid farewell to Holland and the KDV with its many Dutch street organs.

Photos by Mike Barnhart

Figure 12. Splinter, a Decap dance organ

Figure 13. A German Wrede fair organ. Figure 15. A Model 36A Ruth fairground organ.

Figure 14. Het Schip, a Dutch street organ. Figure 16. A Bursens street organ, now residing in Haarlem, Netherlands.

18 Cannal boats in Leeuwarden

Openluchtmuseum Windmills

Veronica’s Owner & Friends

Liz Barnhart and Shirley & Frank Nix Three gypsies going Dutch treat.

Openluchtmuseum Trolley & Trolley Barn Leaning Tower of Leeuwarden

19 20 21 By Shirley Nix RUDERLESS JERRY NO MORE Late last year Frank and I were invited from point A to point M, or even to point the pipe chest. The pump had been to accompany Jerry Pell to look at a Z, with many stops along the way. We rebuilt previously. As he worked on the Bruder Organ Bob Gilson had for sale. visited several spots and saw some lovely organ he found tickets from the Sunset Jerry hates to fly, and was hoping for organs enroute, some for sale, some not. Beach Club carousel, proving the loca- company on a “sightseeing” trip. (Jerry When we got to the Lanicks and went tion correct. usually signed his email to us as “Bruderless out to his garage there stood the Bruder, This organ is a Gebruder Bruder Jerry”, so you can see that he was ready!) and I swear Jerry’s eyes lit up the whole Bruder 67-key, model 103, and was listed Now, it isn’t hard to convince us to go, place. This was a large, beautiful organ, in the Gebruder Bruder catalog as a especially since Frank had missed seeing just the size Jerry was hoping for but had “large symphonic orchestral organ.” It Bob Gilsons place the last time the been afraid he couldn’t afford. (Of has automatic soft and loud registers and Convention was in the area, due to the course, that is a minor problem most of Mike says it has tri-mixture. fact Frank had to attend a trustees In 1984 Mike traded this organ to meeting while I went on the tour to Steve Lanick, and it stayed there the Gilson collection. (That hurt..) until Jerry bought it. The façade is As we planned our trip, Jerry still in wonderful condition, and called and said Mike Argain had told Jerry has had it out to a couple of him about another Bruder for sale by organ rallies in Southern California Steve and Jean Lanick. Mike had already, much to the delight of those owned this organ at one time, and who see and hear it. said it was a good one, so of course When we got back to California that altered our trip considerably. we mentioned at a meeting that there We went first to Bob Gilson’s, was a good deal on another Bruder and what a treat that is, whether you with tons of music available from are in the market for an organ or Bob Gilson. Lo and behold Lloyd not! There we saw the first Bruder, Jerry Pell’s Bruder Osmundson checked into it, found it and Jerry was quite surprised to see to be the perfect size for his needs how much music there was for this us run into from time to time, but it’s and bought it, so we will soon have two organ. It was a small Bruder, in the right amazing how we can do creative fine Bruder organs at our rallies. (Lloyd’s price range, and Jerry was excited as we financing to convince ourselves we can, talented, artistic wife Brooke is restoring left. indeed, afford another instrument, or at the façade.) We flew from Wisconsin to Boston, least that we have to have it.) By the way, Jerry no longer signs his where we visited the Ken and Sandy This organ had been on a carousel in emails “Bruderless Jerry” of course. He Goldman collection. Again, what a treat! New Jersey which was owned and has gone from “no longer Bruderless We had never seen this magnificent operated by M. D. Borrelli at the Sunset Jerry” to various signatures sort of collection, and it was really a thrill for Beach Club. Jim Wells purchased the implying he is broke and nearly the three of us to enjoy the automata and carousel and attendant organs and the homeless, but no long Bruderless. What the great orchestrion collection. The whole package was broken up. Haning is important, after all? Goldmans were wonderful hosts, and we and White bought the organs from Wells, This was a super adventure, and it’s appreciated their hospitality, since we and then in 1982 Mike Argain bought the always great to see someone achieve a just called and asked them if it were Bruder from Haning and White. The dream, and to see something this great convenient for us to visit. façade was redone by a well known sign come out to Southern California is a real When we left Boston by rented car we painter who worked on Indianapolis Race thrill. Next April at our Descanso Garden drove, sort of, towards the Lanicks. As Cars. It was beautifully done, true to the rally the organ should have all the minor you can imagine, no true collector ever original colors and design. things done, and it will be in top-notch drives from point A to point B, but rather Mike rebuilt the chest and cleaned up shape. 22 By Doug McGee N EVENING WITH LEO ORNSTEIN’S FAMILY This past Sunday evening, October made enormous contributions to the has quickly become a very accomplished 24th, my wife Pam and I enjoyed a most music world throughout most of the 20th pianist. It may be that she has inherited interesting event in our home, the subject Century, and both lived long lives with a good deal of her famous Great of which I believe most AMICA Leo Ornstein reaching the age of 109. grandparents’ talent. members would have an interest in. We feel very fortunate to have Leo Ornstein’s daughter, Edith Edith and her family living Valentine along with her daughter Kyra nearby, and look forward to other and son-in-law Michael Grimm and their visits in the future. And I might daughter Emily were guests of ours to add the granddaughter Emily is hear and enjoy several of the Ornstein presently a sophomore here at AMPICO rolls played on our Mason & Sturgeon Bay High School, and Hamlin. We were delighted to have the opportunity for this visit and for them to be able to experience these AMPICO recordings first-hand. We served dessert a little later-on and Edith Valentine had a chance to visit over cake, ice cream and coffee. Edith recalled a number of very interesting anecdotes about her famous parents and times past. As many know, Edith’s mother, Pauline Prevost Ornstein was also a highly regarded pianist and educator. The Ornsteins both Emily, Kyra Grimm & Edith Valentine

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HERE’S NOTHING San Francisco Chronicle MECHANICAL ABOUT IT: Oct 7, 2004 - by Jesse Hamlin

Player pianos hammer the mint- green brocade wallpaper and faux on top of the piano says: "Modern marble Corinthian columns. There's a Dancing and Immodest Dress Stir Sex heartstrings of Alamo formal portrait of a stern-faced woman Desire: Leading to Lustful Flirting, Square collector who brings Gertrude Stein to mind, a Fornication, Adultery, Divorce, Disease, white marble and walnut hall mirror Destruction and Judgment.'' Richard Reutlinger lives in adorned with carved wolf heads and top "That's what they said about ragtime, hats on pegs, a rose-dotted yellow silk too, that it was evil music,'' says the past, and it's a splendid sofa once owned by fabled San Francisco Reutlinger, 68, a ragtime connoisseur place to visit. madame Sally Stanford. whose high-ceilinged home often echoes In the downstairs ballroom, built by with the jaunty sound of syncopated early Walking into his beautifully restored the local German architect Heinrich 20th century American music. 1886 Italianate Victorian in San Geilfuss for liquormaker-merchant A retired Arthur Andersen office Francisco's historic Alamo Square Henry Brune, Reutlinger sits at a 1910 manager who pioneered the Victorian sector, one is overwhelmed by the ornate foot- powered player piano, pumping out revival in San Francisco's Western plushness of the place. Stained-glass a Spanish-flavored version of Scott Addition, he has a marvelous collection Cleopatras and stuffed peacocks, Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag.'' An old sign of vintage player pianos and other continue. . . 23 continued. . . mechanical instruments -- nickelodeons, Haight and grooving to the Grateful machines -- collectively valued at around Orchestrions and a pair of reproducing Dead. But he much prefers the sound of $250,000 -- as part of the Victorian pianos of the kind Rachmaninoff and Confrey's "Kitten on the Keys'' or Pete heritage. Gershwin recorded their music on. They Wendling's version of "Darktown Howard Goldman of Oakland has once rang out in barrooms, cafes and Strutter's Ball'' playing on one of his repaired some of Reutlinger's 15 pianos bordellos, silent-movie houses and nickelodeons (so named because and another craftsman named Bing private homes. patrons put a nickel in the slot to play a Gibbs, who lives in the Gold Country "I really like good syncopation,'' says selection). town of Volcano, has cared for others. Reutlinger, whose automatic A friend in New Orleans flies instrument collection will be on up to work on Reutlinger's public view, along with everything 1920 Mills Violano Virtuoso, an else in his opulent Victorian, from electromagnetic contraption that, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday as part in addition to a 44-note piano, of the San Francisco Museum and actually plays a violin. The strings Historical Society's annual Alamo are sounded by a set of celluloid Square tour. rollers attached to steel rods. Reutlinger, a compact chap with The costliest piece in the a shaved head and amused blue house is a rare 1916 Seeburg G eyes looking out through rimless Orchestrion, a beautifully carved specs, got hooked on ragtime as and stained-glass-decorated a kid growing up in the little instrument billed as the equivalent Nebraska town of Lexington. His of a six-piece band. In addition Richard Reutlinger keeps his collection of mechanical favorite aunt, fun-loving Louise, instruments in his Alamo Square home. to piano and various percussion played the lively music in movie instruments, it also features a set theaters and dime stores. There's the 1917 Coinola that graced of pipes mimicking the sounds of violin, In the late '40s, Reutlinger's parents an Oakland barroom until the mid-1940s, mandolin and flute. took him on vacation to San Francisco. when it was replaced with a jukebox. "I wanted a G for about 40 years. I He fell in love with the city, its history Powered by an electric motor that runs practically had to take a second mortgage and the player pianos he heard at the the pneumatic vacuum system that plays on the house to get that one,'' says Cliff House. it, the piano also contains snare and bass Reutlinger, who paid a Menlo Park "I thought, 'Geez, these sound just like drums, cymbal, bells, tambourine and collector $75,000 for it. The other day, Aunt Louise,' '' says Reutlinger, who wood block. it was playing a bouncing tune that purchased his first player piano when Reutlinger, a gay man who'd suggested the circus or a merry-go-round he got back to Nebraska. He was "escaped'' Nebraska in '56 and moved to or an English music-hall bit on a Beatles playing accordion at a Rotary Club San Francisco, where he later came out, record. It's the kind of high-volume meeting when he asked a furniture didn't have a lot of money but was able to Orchestrion that was used in dance halls salesman in attendance if he ever came buy an instrument every so often. He and cabarets. across player pianos. The guy just picked up the Coinola at the estate auc- Across Reutlinger's ballroom sits happened to have one, a simple tion of Charlie Smallwood, a noted San his other favorite player piano, a 1911 pedal-pumped Auto piano that the Francisco history buff and collector American Fotoplayer, built in Oakland. nascent 13-year-old collector scored who'd got it from the Oakland bar. Used to accompany silent movies, it for $50 after selling his Lionel train "After World War II, when jukeboxes features an array of percussion and brass to get the cash. were available again, the bartenders and reed pipes. The operator yanks on Reutlinger doesn't know what ever were just throwing things out on the a series of pulls dangling above the happened to that instrument, which came street,'' Reutlinger says. When he began keyboard to set off the sound of sleigh with only one roll that played the old collecting nickelodeons, "nobody cared bells and pistol shots, Indian tom-tom salon tune "Robin's Return.'' that much about them. They'd practically and train whistles. "I still can't stand to listen to it,'' says give 'em to you to get rid of them.'' "It's a fun instrument,'' says Reutlinger, who owns about 5,000 piano Of course, Reutlinger, who founded Reutlinger, who paid $800 to a collector rolls, including classics by Zez Confrey, the Automatic Music Instrument for a machine that cost a whopping Roy Bargy and other once-famous Collector's Association here in '63 and $4,500 when it was new. It was in pieces musicians who made the music that hosts ragtime and stride-piano concerts in when he got it and had to be completely played in parlors across America. his parlor, has spent thousands of dollars restored. Reutlinger allows that he dug Elvis restoring these instruments, many Two grand pianos sit upstairs: a 1928 Presley a little in high school, and, like of which are intricately adorned with Knabe with an Ampico reproducing any right-minded, Victorian-owning, carvings and stained-glass images. mechanism, and a 1929 Steinway rigged liberated San Franciscan in the '60s, Although they're products of post- with the competing Duo Art system. spent some time hanging out in the Victorian culture, he sees these ornate continue. . . 24 continued. . .

These were the kind of sophisticated, "At the time, these pianos produced instruments in the city (besides the one at precomputer player pianos prized for far better renditions that the phonograph the Musee Mecanique at Pier 45) and the their ability to not only reproduce the recordings of the piano. So all the big guy won't let anybody in. It's fun to share notes but the "expression'' of the artist artists recorded on them.'' it,'' says Reutlinger, a history buff for who recorded the roll -- the changes of Some big names have also performed whom the past is very much alive. tempo, volume and phrasing that mark a live in Reutlinger's front room, among "I have to admit, this is my escape particular performance. them ragtime specialists Max Morath and from the 21st century.'' "They play all the expression, they're the Norwegian master Morten Gunnar not just hammering stuff out,'' says Larsen. The late, great Eubie Blake, who Reutlinger, listening to the Knabe play died in 1983 at the age of 100, played The Brune-Reutlinger House, with Rachmaninoff's stately Prelude in Reutlinger's Steinway in '77. its collection of player pianos, is C-Sharp Minor. The composer recorded "He was only in his 90s then, and he one of seven historic homes around the roll in the 1920s. sounded wonderful,'' says Reutlinger, San Francisco's Alamo Square "This is how he played it, this is him,'' who loves to show people his collection that will be open for public tours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. says Reutlinger, who has a CD player in and his home. Tickets, $20-$25. the kitchen, but uses it primarily to play "I don't understand these collectors (415) 775-1111 Oriental fox trots and other ragtime-era that buy stuff and never let anybody see music. it. There's a big collection of mechanical www.sfhistory.org.

By Denis Condon ELTE COVERED – SEEBACKCOVER Inspired by the front cover photograph 1925. It is a wonderful selection of In front of the Steinway stands a most of the September 2003 AMICA bulletin concert music and includes six dance unusual Welte vorsetzer that plays green (Volume 40 Number 5), I decided to rolls from 1924. The piano and rolls were rolls. It was found in Wales (UK) by a photograph the Welte Mignon ‘set-up’ in shipped to Sir Norman and his bride’s Sydney antique dealer and shipped to my collection with the thought that it new home in the southern highlands of Australia in the 1970s. Having sat in the may interest other AMICAns. I like to New South Wales. The climate of that dealer’s laundry for more than 10 years, think that this is the complete Welte area may have accounted for the rolls’ it was offered to me unrestored. It seems Mignon for the simple reason that it, or exceptionally good condition. Indeed to be about the same vintage as the in reality, they play T100 red rolls, T98 many of them seemed never to have been Steinway upright, which makes it most green rolls and, with the movement of played before I acquired the instrument. unusual. By the mid ‘20s it appears that one lever, Licensee rolls. I first came across the instrument in Welte was only making vorsetzers to At the back of the set-up pictured is the early 1960s when it was listed in the order. In its austere Brazilian Rosewood a Steinway upright Model ‘K’, serial Sydney Morning Herald as a ‘Steinway case, it is a sensational machine. As number 212142, which plays red rolls. player piano’ for auction along with the can be seen in the photograph, it has a Michel’s Piano Atlas dates the instrument by then late Sir Norman’s house and its similar stack to that of the T100 and at circa 1922 and there is an interesting other contents. Having been told it was both of these players have no tracking tale as to how it came to Australia. The an ordinary player piano, I nevertheless mechanism. So beautifully engineered original owner was Sir Norman Kater, a was curious to see it and attended the are they that neither of them ever wealthy businessman who was one of the auction. When I realized it was a very mistracks. founders of the Myer department store unusual reproducer my interest grew but Inspired by my ever-increasing chain based in Melbourne that still exists I was outbid by a local dairy farmer collection of wonderful Licensee rolls, throughout Australia. and his wife, Joyce and Sam Airey. when restoring the vorsetzer I had Sir Norman probably bought the piano I introduced myself to the Aireys and long discussions with my friend Jim at the Steinway showrooms in Conduit kept in touch, visiting them in Fitzroy Nicholson, who is a genius when it Street, London, when he visited the Falls occasionally, until about 15 years comes to pneumatic problems, and United Kingdom in 1924 or thereabouts later the phone rang one day. It was Joyce I decided to see if we could convert for what may have been his honeymoon. offering me the Steinway Welte. After the vorsetzer to a dual system. We It would appear that he ordered a copy of several years of painstaking restoration experimented with pieces from my every roll in the showroom at the time, of both piano and player, with the help of collection of discarded player items and since of the156 T100 rolls in his Jim Nicholson, the piano stands as in the succeeded with basically six Welte collection none was dated later than photograph and sounding magnificent. licensee lock valves and an Aeolian continue. . . 25 continued. . . transposing bar. It was the bar that made exceptional items that are not to be found work in reverse. I have tried it but the the job fairly simple. Yes, a good deal of in any other collection and it has been a Licensee tracker bar is not sympathetic luck was involved but the fact that the continuing joy to be able to play my to the process. Its ports are all the same test rolls (mine are all original) register Licensee rolls. size and in line, where on the green bar perfectly made adjusting the two systems three ports at either end are a different easy and the musical results worthwhile. Postscript size and in some cases fractionally out of It is just so fortunate that the ports in the For those of you with Licensee line with the others. T98 bar do the job perfectly – even the players and access to green rolls, the reroll is fine. The US Welte catalogue has Green to Licensee conversion does not

Ervin and wife Betty

ERVIN CANADA Born April 28, 1929 Died December 18, 2004

AMICA in general, and the Southern California Chapter in particular, lost a a smile, and was ready any time we good friend and loyal member when called him for a meeting at their home or Ervin Canada passed away from lung to bring out an organ to an organ rally. cancer. He was a familiar figure, with his piano Ervin had been a mechanic, a car keyboard suspenders and red vest. salesman, and had leased and rented cars. He and Betty Sue were married 55 His mechanical ability made the world of years, and the recurring theme at his mechanical music a natural for him, and funeral was his loyalty and honesty, whether he was working on orchestrions, whether in marriage, family, or business. music boxes or clocks he could solve Our sincere thoughts go out to Betty Sue most any problem, and tackled each and the family, although we know there one with enthusiasm. He was a real are so many happy memories of the love “go-getter” in all phases of his life. shared that will keep him alive in their He was, along with his wife Betty hearts, and ours as well. Sue, a member of AMICA, MBSI, and NAWCC for many years. He always had

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DA-036 Mazurka No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 21 (Saint-Saëns) $13 played by the Composer Camille Saint-Saëns (originally issued on Duo-Art 5945 / November 1917) DA-037 Chaconne - Andante Maestoso, Op. 21 (Bach - Busoni) $24 played by the Composer Ferruccio Busoni (originally issued on Duo-Art 6928-5 / November 1925) DA-038 Rhapsody in B Minor, Op. 79 No. 1 (Brahms) $18 played by Arthur Rubinstein (originally issued on Duo-Art 6744-4 / April 1924) continue. . .

27 Continued. . .NEW BLUESTONE DUO-ART ROLL REISSUES

DA-039 Andante Spianato and Polonaise, Op. 22 (Chopin - Liszt) $24 played by Alfred Cortot (originally issued on Duo-Art 6365 / November 1920) DA-040 Etude, Op. 25, No. 9 in Gb Major ("Butterfly") (Chopin) $10 played by Ignace Paderewski (originally issued on Duo-Art 6097 / ca. April 1919) DA-041 Fantasie Impromptu, Op. 66 in C# Minor (Chopin) $16 played by Harold Bauer (originally issued on Duo-Art 6058-4 / October 1918) DA-042 Nocturne, Op. 32, No. 2 in Ab Major (Chopin) $14 played by Rudolph Ganz (originally issued on Duo-Art 6966-4 / February 1926) DA-043 Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2 in Eb Major (Chopin) $14 played by Leopold Godowsky (originally issued on Duo-Art 5771 / May 1916) DA-044 "Military" Polonaise, Op. 40, No. 1 in A Major (Chopin) $15 played by Ignace Paderewski (originally issued on Duo-Art 6140 / December 1919) DA-045 "Don Juan" Variations, Op. 2 (Mozart - Chopin) $26 played by Robert Goldsand (originally issued on Duo-Art 7440-3 / December 1931) DA-046 Andaluza - Danza Espanolas, No. 5 (Granados) $14 played by the Composer Enrique Granados (originally issued on Duo-Art 5758 / May 1916) DA-047 Sonata in D, No. 37 - Allegro Con Brio (Haydn) $18 played by Rudolph Ganz (originally issued on Duo-Art 6835-4 / January 1925) DA-048 La Campanella - Paganini Etude No. 3 in G Sharp Minor (Liszt) $15 played by Ferruccio Busoni (originally issued on Duo-Art 5698 / November 1915) DA-049 Gondoliera - Annes de Pelerinage, Venezia a Napoli (Liszt) $15 played by Rudolph Ganz (originally issued on Duo-Art 6571 / November 1922) DA-050 La Chasse ("The Chase") - Paganini Etude No. 5 in E Major (Liszt) $13 played by Ferruccio Busoni (originally issued on Duo-Art 5671 / July 1915) DA-051 Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 in E Major (Mendelssohn) $15 played by Josef Hofmann (originally issued on Duo-Art 6119 / April 1919) DA-052 Finlandia Overture, Op. 26, No. 7 (Sibelius) $16 played by Ganz and Hutcheson (originally issued on Duo-Art 539-4 / April 1928) DA-053 Sapphire, A Musical Gem (Bloom) $13 played by the Composer Rube Bloom (originally issued on Duo-Art 72488 / July 1928) DA-054 An Operatic Nightmare - Desecration No. 2 (Arndt) $13 played by the Composer Felix Arndt (originally issued on Duo-Art 5811 / September 1916) DA-055 Blue Hoosier Blues - lyric sheet included with roll $13 played by Edythe Baker (originally issued on Duo-Art 18855 / July 1923) DA-056 Kickin' The Clouds Away (Gershwin) $13 played by the Composer George Gershwin (originally issued on Duo-Art 713122 / July 1925)

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28 Continued. . .NEW BLUESTONE WELTE (LICENSEE) ROLL REISSUES

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29 News From CHICAGO CHAPTER The Chapters Reporter: Kathy Stone President: Curt Clifford - (630) 279-0872

Our fall chapter meeting was held September 18th at the home of Wayne and Connie Wolf. The Wolf’s have a diverse collection that includes orchestrions, phonographs, and music boxes. Among the roll operated pianos are a very rare mahogany Seeburg “G” orchestrion, a Coinola C-2 “O” roll nickelodeon with two ranks of pipes and full percussion, and a Link style “A” that plays the fascinating Link endless roll. Our hosts provided a delicious assortment of deli meats and members pitched in bringing appetizers, salads, side dishes and deserts. Needless to say, no one went home hungry. After socializing and catching up with old friends we settled into our business meeting. Plans for the 2006 AMICA BOSTON CHAPTER convention were discussed. Our hotel will be the Hyatt Regency Woodfield where we were able to get a room rate of Reporter: Ginger Christiansen $85.00 per night. The convention will include trips to the President: Bill Koenigsburg - (978) 369-8523 Sanfilippos, Kkrughoffs, Choffnes’s and others. There will be an attendance limit of 300 people. The possibility of creating a Chicago AMICA website was also discussed. December 5, 2004 We had a a great time on a beautiful fall day and in The meeting was held at Dorothy Bromage’s home addition to enjoying Connie and Wayne’s collection, we had in Billerica, MA. Bill Koenigsburg opened the meeting. the pleasure of viewing the beautiful gardens surrounding 13 people were in attendance, 1 guest – Bill Johnson. their home. Kudos Connie on your “green thumb”. Minutes: The minutes were read. Treasurers Report: No treasures report – Karl was absent.

Old Business: Status for the ongoing project for the Charles River Marcie Plank Museum of Industry was discussed. and Carol Veome. New Business: 1) Do we want to change our fiscal year/membership year to April 1? Majority of members in attendance had no objection.

2) There will be no Xmas dinner this year. Suggestions were given for new location.

3) Bylaws - copies Elsa and Joe Pekarek examine 4) Progress on Sandy Libman; stories and update on estate the Wolf’s photo auction at Skinners Speaker – Bob Hunt discussed album. software and transferring files for player pianos. The meeting was adjourned.

30 Margaret Bisberg and Richard Van Metre and the mahogany Seeburg “G”.

Wayne Wolf and Fred Plank watch as Curt Clifford conducts the business meeting.

Some of the interesting phonographs in the Wolf’s collection.

Wayne and Connie with their Link model “A”.

A diverse and interesting collection. Tim Trager shows a Clark Orchestra Roll Co. photo assemblage.

Margaret Bisberg listens to MIDWEST CHAPTER a keywind cylinder music box. Reporter: Christy Counterman President: Stuart Grigg- (248) 356-5505

Our last meeting of the year began in the Livonia, Michigan home of Nan and John Flint on Saturday, Novem- ber 13. Entering the living room, we were greeted by their Beautiful Style 35 Regina leaded glass window with the coat of arms motif, and disc changer miniature carousel horses ringed the ceiling. Ceilings seemed music box. to be their specialty, as the ceiling tiles in the music room

31 were replaced by giant enlargements of roll box labels. Piano rolls are everywhere, as special storage cabinets were overhead, in the hallway and in the garage, and all of the rolls were organized neatly and indexed in notebooks. The surprise came when walking into the vintage phone booth - the back wall opened into a secret roll room with floor to ceiling storage. After listening to the Mills Violano, and a few piano rolls, the entertainment turned to live music. Mike Montgomery on the upright and Damon Atchison on the grand combined for impromptu duets and tunes requested by our members. We enjoyed refreshments while shopping for rolls in the garage and listening to more music on their Chickering Ampico and Weber Duo-Art. But it was soon time for dinner and we carpooled to the Pik-A-Bone restaurant for their delicious barbecued ribs, chicken and more. Damon Atchison awaits his cue for his next duet with Next was a trip into Detroit to visit the historic 1928 Mike Montgomery. Redford Theatre. The program that night was the annual Vaudeville show presented by the Redford Harmony Club. It was a night full of acts including music, unicycle performers, and a former Miss Michigan and her ventriloquist mouse. They were accompanied by Don Haller at the Barton theatre organ and the Detroit Fire Department Band. Sunday morning we were on the road again to Wally and Marlene Donoghue's home on the outskirts of Plymouth, originally part of the Saddle Ridge Club founded by Henry Ford and Harry Bennett in 1937. The many adjacent buildings included a dance hall and horse corral where they hosted Mike Barnhart and Karl Theil rodeos in the 1940's. The Donoghue's house was the former check out Kevin MeElhone’s caretaker's home, built in 1941. We had our business meeting book on Mechanical Music where Liz Barnhart summarized the Denver convention and available from our chapter. brought us up-to-date on the upcoming events. Mike Barnhart reviewed a book that the Hartwells brought to the Denver Convention - Mechanical Music by Kevin McElhone. It is a great introduction to many kinds of automatic Karl Theil enters the Flints’ secret roll room where Bennett musical instruments with many photos and is available at a Leedy is already picking out reasonable price. The chapter voted to purchase 200 books to songs. make them available in the United States for our members to give to friends that may be interested in AMICA. We also dis- cussed future meetings and plan to meet at Bennett Leedy's in March as well as meeting in Ohio and Indiana later in The ceiling tiles at 2005. The meeting adjourned so we could enjoy the music the Flint’s are giant from the Donoghue's music boxes and the Steinway Duo-Art piano roll labels. XR. We'd like to thank our hosts, Nan and John Flint and Marlene and Wally Donoghue for a weekend filled with fun friends and wonderful instruments.

Carousel animals marched across the Flints’ living room.

Host John Flint demonstrates the Mills Violano for Vince Ricca. 32 The rustic setting of the Sadde Ridge Club.

A patriotic introduction at the Redford by seven branches of U. S. servicemen, accompanied by the Detroit Fire Dept. Band.

NORTHERN LIGHTS CHAPTER Reporter: Dorothy Olds President: Phil Baird

On December 5, 2004 we met for our annual Christmas Party. It's been a while since the chapter has held a regular meeting. However, the convention planning committee has been meeting monthly. The original Japanese décor of the Redford Theatre surrounds Don Halter at the organ. We had a nice winter day, no snow in sight, for which this reporter was grateful, because of my long commute from Grand Rapids to St. Paul. Our president, Phil Baird hosted the event at his recently acquired 1912 home. It is of the Arts and Craft Style, which is very homey and comfortable. What a great place to socialize .....and we did! Phil is also the proud owner of a Welte/Kimball grand player which he purchased from Dick Kroeckel. (Phil fell in love with it during the open house tours in Denver.) Needless to say IT entertained us during our party. A brief meeting was held. Chairman Don Barton brought us up to date on the convention planning. Following the sumptuous dinner with a variety of Hilda and Warren Merchant wait for the next selection on the delcious, delectable foods, we Regina Corona Changer. all settled into opening the great "white elephant" gifts each received. Most everyone enjoyed theirs.

Wally Donoghue changes the Reginaphone Calaoo from disc to record. Phil Baird – Host with his dog Willa.

33 Randy Hammond, Jerrilyn Boehland & Phil’s new piano.

Tom Wurdeman, Barb Watkins, Paul Watkins.

Jeremy, Ed Copeland, Randy Hammond, Terry Goepel, Craig Remmen, Todd Reuhaus. Donald Jones (Styrofoam in mouth) Karl Eilers, Tedd N., Howie O’Neill.

Party’s Over. . . Margaret, Tom, Tim Wheat, Willa, Phil.

Phil’s mother, Margaret.

Tom Wurdeman, Phil Baird, Howie O’Neill, PACIFIC CAN-AM CHAPTER Don Barton, Barb Watkins. Reporter: Mark Smithberg President: Halie Dodrill - [email protected]

March Someone’s March 20th, 2004 was a first for the Pacific Can-Am in the kitchen. Chapter of AMICA. We all went on a field trip. We journeyed about 2 hours north to the small city of Bellingham near the Canadian border to visit the American Museum of Radio and Electricity. The museum is downtown in a 6000 square foot

34 storefront, and will soon be expanding to 23,000 square feet. Spokane history, full access to the house, except the It contains over 1200 items, including radios, televisions, basement, and also the garage, which cotains a vintage recording devices, early electrical devices, test equipment and Nash automobile. Instead of a potluck that would not have quack medical equipment from the beginning of the electrical been feasible for the four hour drive from Seattle, we had age. Most of them are operable. Some of them can be handled a deli luncheon that Dan put together himself. Thanks for by the public. It is truly an interactive museum. Our chapter a great time from a great host. It was truly a treat to see all will be rebuilding a foot operated player piano that will be of the wonderful things Dan has collected for so many years. used and displayed in their recreation of a 1920’s living room. We will furnish rolls and a roll cabinet so that they can SEPTEMBER demonstrate how to use it and visitors can learn what it is like to pump a player piano. We then headed south to Larry and Saturday, September 18th, the Pacific Can-Am Chapter Jackie Slossen’s house for the business meeting, show and of AMICA met in Carbonado, WA at the home of Peg Kehret. tell, and pizza. We added 2 new members at that time. Plans Her custom log home was built with music in mind. There is a for the future include the Band Organ Rally at Ocean Shores, Regent player piano, Nickelodeons, an Aeolian Orchestrelle WA on June 6th and our next meeting in Spokane to be held Model V, a Raffin crank organ, and many small organettes. the 26th of June. We had many long absent members attend and one new mem- ber that contacted us from the AMICA website and joined us at the meeting. Kurt Morrison, Troy Taylor, and Ron Babb held a workshop on pneumatic recoverings. Several members got their fingers sticky while working on the Milton player our chapter will be donating to the American Museum of Radio and Electricity in Bellingham, WA. It is fitted with a Standard Pneumatic Action which will serve their purposes very well and hopefully not require many service calls. A large mart was held in the garage with many tools, rolls, and supplies. Our business meeting followed with an update on the Knabe APMICO that is located in downtown Seattle at the Paramount Theater, its original location. It was made to match the Wurlitzer organ console and was placed on the mezzanine Larry Slosson accompanying his talented feet at the above the lobby for use before shows and during intermission. piano while playing the harmonica. Sold in the 1960’s, it has been leased from its current owner and placed where it had originally intended to be. Our chapter will be restoring it so that the public can see and enjoy it. We hope it generates new AMICA members and demonstrates the remarkable capabilities of the AMPICO system. They have shown great interest in having it operable. Our usual potluck was a big hit. After that we enjoyed old-fashioned milkshakes made by Mark Smithberg on Kurt Morrison’s 1940’s triple spindle Hamilton Beach machine.

Our business meeting with lots of pizza.

JUNE The Pacific Can-Am Chapter of AMICA met Saturday, June 26th, in Spokane, Washington at the home of Dan Brown, our international president. It was a warm day with thunder and lightening all around the north end of Spokane, but we managed to stay dry. Dan’s huge collection is actually many smaller collections, and would take weeks to describe. The main floor of his modest house is packed with two grand pianos, an upright Fischer Art Case Studio Ampico, and a nickelodeon. Did you happen to see the nice article in the March/April issue of the AMICA Bulletin? The entire house Left to Right: Sally Gibson, Halie Dodrill, Jackie Slosson. In the is full of Radios, Phonographs, Music Boxes, Spokane background, the wall is filled with cover art from Peg Kehret’s Children’s books. memorabilia, antiques, and there are a couple pianos in foster placement with good friends. It has been said that if the contents of the house were emptied onto the lawn, they would never fit back into the house. We enjoyed many stories of 35 Mike Wallace auction of records, cylinders, phonographs, and related items; pumping the and their personal collection of these items is one of the best. “Regent”. In lieu of the usual Christmas gift exchange, our hosts requested members bring an unwrapped children’s toy to be donated, in AMICA’s name, to a children’s charity. John Motto-Ros purchased several copies of Kevin McElhone’s book MECHANICAL MUSIC from the AMICA Midwest Chapter and sold some to our chapter members. Tom and Virginia planned some really fun and interesting activities. Attendees were asked to bring their favorite and worst Christmas music selections—LP, old record, CD, or Ampico roll. After the music was played and voted on, outrageous prizes were awarded to participants. It was great to see some long-time members, and most of the usual suspects were present. For those who could not attend, you missed a gala affair.

Left to Right: Ted and Aileen Miholovich, Jack Becvar, Bernice Powell, Ward Folsom, Fran Willyard, Mary Lou Becvar, Carl Dodrill, Brian Tate.

Alex Thompson loading Xmas rolls on the 1928 Fischer Ampico Grand.

Our hosts, Tom & Virginia Hawthorn, with Xmas Nipper.

Left to Right: Ron Babb, Dan Brown, Peg Kehret (Our Hostess), Larry Karp reclining.

Is this AMICA party laid back-- you bet.

SIERRA NEVADA CHAPTER Reporter: Nadine Motto-Ros Sonja Lemon and Dave President: John Motto-Ros - (209) 267-9252 Mareno enjoying the Ampico Christmas music. The Sierra-Nevada Chapter’s Christmas Extravaganza was held Sunday, December 19, at the home of Tom and Virginia Hawthorn in Roseville, CA. The Hawthorn’s run an

36 to watch this man, from the original outline to the finished product of a lady on a couch holding her daughter. The Fred's friend detail and depth of the finished picture was really amazing. Debbie, Fred Deal, Squares were offered for $5 to anyone who wanted to Nadine Motto-Ros try their hand, including a full set of chalk, rags, and all and Doug Mahr the things an aspiring artists might need. A lot of kids had a enjoying food lot of fun, and quite a few adults as well. and drink. The sounds of the monkey organs made a real atmosphere for the event, and hopefully it will become an annual thing. Those bringing instruments were Jack Conway, Bill Klinger, Peter Breede, Jerry Pell, Frank Nix, and Bill Blair, who brought out a Regina music box with a lot of discs for people to enjoy. We really appreciate the cooperation shown by our members when we call them to put on an organ rally. Several of our members came out without instruments just to support the event and enjoy the festivities. Another one who came out to enjoy the day was Andrew Barrett, who has been coming to our band organ rallies for the last nine years. We have watched him grow and develop into a really fine ragtime pianist. The first time he came out he was all of 9 years old, and SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER he could tell everyone about their organ. He had actually read the Encyclopedia of Mechanical Music from cover Reporter: Shirley Nix to cover a couple of times. We were privileged to have President: Frank Nix- (818) 884-6849 him come out and crank the organs for most of the day. Our next meeting will be the Christmas party at the home of Frank and Shirley Nix. September 18th found AMICA and their invited guests, MBSI, at the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round for our meeting. Our Host & Hostess – It’s the first time we’ve been there for a meeting in a long Rosemary West and time, and it was a very enjoyable evening. Warren Deasy. Our host and hostess, Warren Deasy and Rosemary West kept the carousel open for us after hours, so we could ride to our hearts content and listen to the great music of the Stinson organ. They have always been great hosts for us, fur- nishing the crew to run the merry-go-round and offering soft drinks. We love having our meetings there, and it’s a great opportunity for members to bring their children or grandchildren and introduce them to the music and fun. Several of us brought monkey organs, too, so we could let the Stinson have a rest now and then and provide our own music. It’s always interesting to hear the different sounds of the organs, and of course we all love to bring out our instruments. Jerry Pell and Maggie It’s always nice to have children attend the meetings Richardson enjoying at the carousel, and this time Darrell Whitney and his the Stinson organ. family were there. The kids seemed to have a good time, and we enjoyed watching them. Bill and Barbara Whitney couldn’t attend due to Barbara not feeling well, but the family was well represented. It was a great evening, and we owe a great big vote of thanks to Warren and Rosemary. Shortly after that meeting we were asked by Kathleen Eric if we could have a few AMICA members bring out monkey organs to the city of Costs Mesa for a sidewalk art festival on October 30. She and Chris were setting things up and generally running the event. We called around, and as usual our members were more than willing to make the effort. Kelly Peters, This was a first for Costa Mesa, and Kathleen had Ardis Prescott, arranged for a very well know sidewalk chalk artist Robin Biggins to be there. (This took place on a basketball court, so and Don Henry. the surface wasn’t the smoothest canvas.) It was fascinating

37 Bill Klenger attempts of rescuing the present you are the lucky owner!! plays for the The prized gift was a commemorative souvenir booklet from crowd. the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo and included a com- pact disc featuring pianist Bob Berkman. Nancy and Ed Group did some fancy ‘trading’ of gifts to add this unique gift to their collection of Pan American memorabilia-a feast to both read and hear! Buffalo has a long and celebrated history as the Queen City of trade and commerce and QRS is still based near the famed Erie Barge Canal. Our Christmas meal featured treats and reminded us of the truly cosmopolitan diversity of America. We had tasty perogies, two kinds of cabbage rolls, Kaiser buns with roast beef, a delicious corn soufflé pudding, cream cheese and Frank Nix watches as Andrew Barrett cranberry chutney rolls, lots of shrimp and a warm cinnamon cranks the organ. cake. Mike conducted a brief business meeting and thanked the club executive of 2004 and introduced the new executive. Our former vice president, Stan Aldridge, has offered to share his collection of test rolls while our newly elected vice president, Daniel Tenerowicz, suggested a bowling party and visit to a collection of automatic playing instruments. Farewells were bid to Frank and Joan Warbis who are moving and wishes of good health to long time member Howard Root. The club would like to continue with the rebuilding of the Weber duo art grand piano that Harrold Hodgkins has so ably and patiently mentored. We are so fortunate to have talented members. All the best for 2005!

Ed, Daniel and Mike in the kitchen. Bob Berkman S.O.W.N.Y. CHAPTER dictates the recipe for his Reporter: Garry Lemon aunt’s delicious corn soufflé President: Mike Walter- (716) 656-9583 while Audrey anticipates hearing the SOWNY Chapter of AMICA International Christmas roll. Winter 2004 Photography by Nancy Group and Anne Lemon “The sun is shining, the grass is green, The orange and palm trees sway…’But it’s December, the twenty-fourth, and I am longing to be up North!” …Irving Berlin in White Christmas Well, it was really December 11th. The moon was shining, the grass was white from snow cover. Our footprints crunched on the snow and ice and the fir tree was brightly decorated for Christmas. For several years, Mike and Holly Walter have hosted our annual Christmas gift exchange. The exchange is lively. The rules are straight forward and must be respected--you draw a number and take your turn to select a present, you have the opportunity to select a wrapped present from under the tree OR to choose one that has been unwrapped and is in the possession of another SOWNY member. After three Stan opens his gift while Nancy, Joan, Frank and Bob look on.

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U~ udrey ana Mik e getting lessons f rom Bob on how to use the game board.

Garry select ing Ampico rolls for Mike ana the gift the Chickering. exchange.

Stan, Mike, Ed and Noe l and Myrna Blair Bob Berkman playing the listening to Chickering B with his Mike 's j uke interp retations ofBalcom 's box. Graceful Ghos t and Joplin 's Magnetic Ray. Bob is music director at QRS.

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39 ADVERTISING FOR SALE GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT 5 FREE PLAYER PIANOS and many parts, all unrestored. Call J. Couture 419-877-5390 evenings. (1-05) ALL ADVERTISING IN THE AMICA BULLETIN APOLLO GRAND PLAYER, LYON & HEALY ARTECHO All advertising should be directed to: GRAND, AEOLIAN AND STROUD DUO-ART UPRIGHT, all in Mike Kukral unrestored condition. Beautiful Gothic cased wing player, rare art case, 216 Madison Blvd. Lauter Humana player and cable upright player, electrified, all restored Terre Haute, Indiana 47803 by Thomas McClury. Jim Harvey 304-645-6579, 304-667-9564, [email protected] (1-05) Phone: 812-238-9656 ROLL CABINET e-mail: [email protected] , 2-door serpentine mahogany, VGC, 20" x 32" x 52" high, holds approximately 130 rolls, price $1500. Paul Ottenheimer Ad copy must contain text directly related to the product/service 856-468-8995.(1-05) being offered. Extraneous text will be deleted at the Publisher’s discretion. All advertising must be accompanied by payment in Positions open for the "Bumbling Bruder Tour" June 14 - 28, 2005; U.S. funds. No telephone ads or written ads without payment will tour includes Germany, Switzerland and Holland; information may be obtained from Ron Bopp, 918-786-4988 or [email protected]. (1-05) be accepted. This policy was established by a unanimous vote of the AMICA Board at the 1991 Board Meeting and reaffirmed at 1914 STECK DUO-ART 5’2” Ivory keys, rebuilt but requires some the 1992 meeting. AMICA reserves the right to edit or to repair work from 2 years of storage, bench, 67 large and 42 small Duo- reject any ad deemed inappropriate or not in keeping with Art rolls included for $5200. Contact: Yale H. Crandall, 5329 Fountain AMICA’s objectives. Palm St., Las Vegas, NV 89130, phone (702) 396-8305. (1-05) AEOLIAN ORCHESTRELLE STYLE V, beautiful dark oak case, The BULLETIN accepts advertising without endorsement, playing well with pedals or blower, 24 rolls, $5,800. Howard Sanford, implied or otherwise, of the products or services being offered. Miami, FL 305-932-7972 (1-05) Publication of business advertising in no way implies AMICA’s STEINWAY DUO-ART GRAND PIANO. 1925 model XR (6’1”), endorsement of any commercial operation. mahogany, unrestored condition. $5,500. Mel Septon 847-679-3455 AMICA PUBLICATIONS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO email: [email protected] (1-05) ACCEPT, REJECT, OR EDIT ANY AND ALL HANDMADE BARREL AND PNEUMATIC ORGANS made in Germany SUBMITTED ARTICLES AND ADVERTISING. . With moving figurines and a lot of humorous surprises. See: www.magic-mechanical-music.de Musik & Spiel Automaten All items for publication must be submitted directly to the Geratebau, Ing. Hansjorg Leible, D-79400 Kandern/Holzen, Kirchstr. 2; Publisher for consideration. Tel: 07626-7613, Fax 07626-971009 (6-05) NEW REPRODUCING ROLLS FOR SALE – Magic Melodies is CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING: $.20 per word, $5.00 minimum now the Exclusive Dealer for new Keystone Ampico and Duo-Art rolls. for AMICA members. Non-members may advertise double the For periodic Catalogs and other listings, write or call us. Magic member rates ($10.00 minimum). Because of the low cost of Melodies, 360 Lawless Road, Jamestown, KY 42629 or advertising, we are unable to provide proof copies or “tear sheets”. phone 270-343-2061. (1-05) Non-member rates are double for all advertising. WELTE-MIGNON PIANO 1927 – Seiler upright, Oak, T-98 green DISPLAY ADVERTISING system, made in Germany. Complete and original, perfect ivories, brass inlay, restrung. 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6’2” RAA Mason&Hamlin AMPICO A Knabe Ampico B Link E with xylophone super piano must sell 12,000 w / Ampichron and torch glass 17,000

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Also Regina 27” Changer 23,000, Mills Single Violano unrestored 18,750, Regina Desk 14,500, Wurlitzer 146 A with bells, Polyphon Mikado 16,000, other Music Boxes, Automata, Books, etc.

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43 REPLACEMENT LEADERS These 11 1/4” x 17” reprints, not trimmed and without tabs, are excellent replicas of the more popular types of reproducing piano roll leaders. While intended for roll repairs, they may also be used for decorative purposes. To splice, overlay new leader on old roll, lay a straightedge on an angle, cut through both papers with a sharp knife, discard scrap, and butt-join with magic mending tape on top surface.

A. Brown on buff B. Black on ivory C. Black on ivory D. Black on ivory (For early red label boxes) (Area for reusable (Most common) (Very late rolls by combined artist photo) Aeolian/American)

Note: Early Welte’s with blue leaders may be repaired with this brown leader. Many of these when reissued had brown leaders.

E. Green on ivory F. Green on ivory G. Welte (Most common) (Favorite Fifty & Brown on buff Selected Roll Service) (Most common)

Please make checks payable to Checks or money Price: $ 1.00 each Style Quantity AMICA INTERNATIONAL, orders from foreign Minimum Order: $10.00 A ______And send to: countries must B ______be drawn on C ______BRIAN K. MEEDER U.S. bank. D ______904A West Victoria Street Postage and Handling $ 5.50 Santa Barbara, CA 93101-4745 E ______Roll Order $ ______F ______e-mail address for orders: G [email protected] Total Amount (U.S. $) $ ______Total Quantity ______

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