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THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE KF3-06 FairFair OrganOrgan PreservationPreservation SocietySociety IN THIS ISSUE Les Fréres Limonaire Pt 3 35 Years of Memories Pt 3 Southern Counties Organ Rally 2006 Visit To Wisconsin W.E.S.E.S. 51st Rally And Much More The Key Frame is published by the Fair Organ Preservation Society quarterly in March, June, Contents September and December and distributed free to members of the Society. Back issues can be Chairman’s Chatter. Peter Haywood. 1. obtained from the Stock Controller. Southern Counties Material in 'The Key Frame' is copyright © the FOPS and/or the authors and is not to be reproduced in part or whole, in any Organ Rally 2006. Alan Roberts. 2. format, without written permission of the Editor and/or the CD Reviews. Michael Morris. 6. author. All rights reserved Les Fréres Limonaire Advertisement Rates Part 3. Andrea Stadler. 7. Full page: £50 Members Pics. Rudy Nijs. 18. 188mm x 132 mm Visit To Wisconsin. Dave Smith. 20. Half page: £27 wide 91mm x 132mm 35 Years Of Memories. tall 188mm x 62mm Part 3. Andy Hinds. 25. Third page: £19 59mm x 132mm W.E.S.E.S 51st Rally. Dave Smith. 35. Qtr. page: £15 Jonas Gavioli, (Notice). Committee. 39. wide 42mm x 132mm tall 91mm x 62mm Letters 40. Advertisements appearing in four Heritage For Sale. Andrew Stephens.45. consecutive issues of the Key Frame qualify Daniel Auber. Andy Hinds. 50. for a 10% discount. The charges include for standard typesetting and scanning. F.O.P.S. Forum. (Notice). Committee. 51. Advertisements should be typed and will be Editorial. Dave Smith. 52. set out at the discretion of the printer and/or Editor unless special requirements are clearly specified at time of submission or if material is provided ready for scanning. Important Articles, obituaries and advertisements intended for inclusion in a Material submitted on CD or floppy disk particular edition of The Key Frame should be sent to the Editor to should be accompanied by a hard copy. arrive by the dates shown below. Articles which arrive too late for CASH WITH ORDER PLEASE to the Editor inclusion in a particular edition will be held over for the following edition. Contributions are, of course, welcome at any time and will who will advise on small ads, inserts etc. on be published when space permits. request. It is the responsibility of the Letters to the Editor are welcome at any time and will be advertiser to ensure the accuracy and published in the first available edition after their receipt. The dates below, are the copy dates for a whole year in advance, veracity of the advertisement. The FOPS and are for the guidance of contributors and advertisers to assist cannot be held responsible for loss of any the Editor in preparing the magazine in a timely manner; they are not deadlines, but the information given above should be borne in kind consequent to responding to an mind when preparing contributions. Regular contributors should advertisement. continue to send their articles as early as possible. Free personal ads for members subject to a All contributions are assumed to be submitted with permission to publish in The Key Frame, on the FOPS home-page on the maximum of 30 words internet and in any other FOPS publications. Variations to this permission should be sent with the original article. Copyright remains with the author unless specifically transferred to the FOPS. FOPS web site All contributions should carry the author's name on the document itself, and may be edited for technical or any other reason without http://www.fops.org reference to the author. Views expressed in The Key Frame are not necessarily those of the Society, the Editor, the Society Officials or the Society Members. The COVER PICTURES reader is solely responsible for determining the accuracy of statements and the use made of them. 80 keyless Gebrüder Bruder Fair COPY DATES Organ in the Jasper Sanfillipo Organ KF2-06 21st April 2006 Collection, Chicago, U.S.A. KF3-06 21st July, 2006 KF4-06 20th October, 2006 Photo: David S mith KF1-07 26th January 2007 Chairman’ Chatter helpful over the matter and we thank them for that. All monies owed to you An extraordinary Meeting of your should be with you in this issue. (see Committee was held in early July to below) discuss the implications of the news of the Thanks also to Kevin Meayers, our granting of an export license for the ex. Public Relations Officer, for his time spent Grays/Jonas 98 key Gavioli liaising with the Printers to bring about The granting of such a license, which this outcome. was done with the say so of Ian Trowell Ladies and Gentleman, mistakes can be of the National Fairground Archive in made. Sheffield, places the entire stock of old Happy Listening, Peter Haywood. instruments in this country in serious danger of suffering of a similar fate. Quite why the body in London WE ARE PLEASED TO WELCOME refererred the matter to the N.F.A. and not THE FOLLOWING NEW MEMBERS the F.O.P.S which has for nearly fifty years TO OUR SOCIETY. been the main society with regard to Fairground Organs, remains a mystery. Mr D Evans, The people at Sheffield have no real Skelmersdale, West Lancs. qualifications where such an important Mr & Mrs C Palmer, matter is concerned or with regard to the Yeovil, Somerset. Waverley Criteria, The criteria which has to be met before an export license can be Mr S Whittaker, granted at all. Brownhills, West Midlands. Although stopping the above now Mr P Thomas, seems unlikely, we as a Society have to be Coventry, West Midlands. seen to be taking action to try to prevent Mr E Thomas, similar events from occurring in the Milton Keynes, Bucks. future. To this end a letter has been sent the relevant body expressing our Mr & Mrs ATipping, displeasure at what has happened and Kidderminster, Worcs. requesting an urgent meeting with them with regard to any similar cases that might arise in the future. NOTICE That is it in a nutshell, an in-depth Apparently, it is not possible to buy report of happenings will appear in this or a postal order for a sum as low as future issue of the Key Frame. £1.04. It has therefore been decided to The unfortunate incident of the deduct that sum from your charging of £1.04 for your last magazine annual subscription and Rowe the was resolved very quickly indeed thanks Printers will reimburse the Society to the printers putting their hands up for the total sum involved. straight away. Rowe the Printers who print the Key Frame have been more than 1 Successful Third Southern Counties Rally By Alan Roberts The third annual Southern Counties Wilhelm Bruder model 74 4 (actually an ex Organ Festival was held at Twyford demonstration model) owned by Francis Waterworks Museum in Hampshire on the Stapleton, which had been completely 4th of June. Set in rolling country- side just rebuilt by Richard Dean last year; a a couple of miles from the M3 beautiful 56 keyless Voigt belonging to motorway, the museum itself holds a Paul Kirrage that came originally from a fascinating history of potable water German showman; ‘De Angelina’ a 55 puming, filtration and supply to the keyless David Leach Dutch street organ surrounding area. Indeed, part of the built at the extreme end of 1999 owned by Victorian building is still used by the very young but non-theless Southern Water. enthuisiastic Ashley Spencer; the 54 key- There were, in total, some 27 organs of less McCarthy ‘Broadtown Belle’2 owned by varying size attending; from the tiny Mike Harris, also in new transport; a 52 'Babe' built and presented by Paul key Verbeeck Dutch street organ built in McCarthy (who incidentally nearly got 1982 and owned by Glyn and Mary paid a mileage allowance, as he kept Tisdall;3 ‘De Harlequin’,5 a 52 key street going around the building trying to find a organ that started life as a Koenigsberg, pitch!) to Ray Bryant's 69 keyless rebuilt by Theo Heesbeen in 1989, then WurliTzer system Dean ‘Charlotte Rose’, pipework replaced in 2004, owned by now recently tuned and fully at home in Graham Spencer; A colourful Wilhelm it's new transport. Bruder model 79 (48 keyless) The main body of organs were (in organ owned by Dr Andrew Leach; ‘Irene’ programme order): a 42 keyless McCarthy owned by Cliff Seamark; ‘Bayford Belle’, a 38 note David Leach hand turned organ, owned by Ray Bryant; the 36 key Pluer/ Krull Dutch street organ ‘De Kleine Molen’, owned by Ashley Spencer; (photo left) Dave and Joan Wright had their lovely Hopp hand turned organ 2 JUST A FEW OF THE ORGANS AT TWYFORD 2006 1 2 3 4 actually inside the building right next to The waterworks museum had laid on a the triple expansion steam pumping free shuttle bus service to and from engine...which thankfully was not Winchester railway station, and this working! In these acoustics, the Hopp proved to be very poular, bringing in sounded a lot larger. many folk (one even came from America The smaller type of organ was to see the show, but not all the way on the represented by Andy Hinds, who bus, I might add). attended with his 31 note Alan Pell paper Fortunately, the weather behaved roll instrument; Robin Brailey brought itself, and produced a very fine, hot and dry along his 30 keyless Dean ‘Cindy’; whilst summers day.
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