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Send orders to: "They All U1ughecl When I S8t Down At BULLETINS, 4260 Greek Drive, Los Manos, TECHNICALITIES, 73 Reno Strip, Jack The Plano, But When IT Began To Play." CA 90000. Benny, MI 48000. This super-8 movie, full of sound and fury and ROLL LEADERS: PSEUDO-ART, Authentic. produced by AMEEKA members, is available For order sheet, see the April 1993 Bulletin. PLEASE MAKE ALL CHECKS PAYABLE TO for loan to AMEEKA members and chapters. LEADERS, 2326 12th street, Frisco, CA R. BIT TRARY For more information write to FILM, 2411 94100. Theda Bara Drive, Los Manos, CA 94000. AMEEKA INTERNATIONAL. ABOUT THIS ISSUE FAST ACTION BY TOM BECKETT AVERTS ~OSSIBLE TRAGEDY Greetings fellow AMICAns. You are about to be led into a ALTURAS: Some of the members of the Northern California new reading experience in AMICA News Bulletins with this Chapter of AMEEKA who made last month's special field trip lampoon issue. Having met a good many of you over the years to "remote collections" got a bit more than they anticipated. I feel assured that AMICAns are AMICAble to the point of enjoying a humorous side to the hobby. I am sure that some of the thoughts expressed on these pages have ocurred to many of us. There has been no attempt to direct embarrassment at any regular (or irregular) contributer to THE AMICA but rather to parody our regular news magazine departments. Your publisher takes full responsibility for the decision to compile and produce this issue from material directly solicited from various authors. I trust no one will be offended-if you are, perhaps you are taking this hobby too seriously. You will note that the lampoon comes as a Bonus Supplement to a regular issue so if you don't want this BS issue just throw it away and pretend it never happened. My thanks to the following contributers to this issue: Roger Torkelson Richard Parker Jim Weisenborne Terry Smythe Tom Beckett Mike Schwimmer Doyle Cassel Members rush to aid of technicians overcome by fumes from Carole Beckett leak developed in methane powered reproducer. Molly Yeckley The feature piano at the meeting was a methane gas powered Ampeeco built especially for this location in the high Sierras, INDEX an area that due to heavy seasonal snowfalls is subject to Cover story: the cover of this issue was created frequent loss of electrical service in the winter. As is the case from various old things found in the files with many of the mechanically-minded in AMEEKA, our local including a naughty post card printed in England technicians could not resist a peek underneath the piano to entitled, "Try this on your piano." view the methane powered gear. Unfortunately, a small leak had developed and gone unnoticed until some of the other INTERNATIONAL AMEEKA 26 members noticed a sudden lack of communication from the AMEEKAn Wins Pedal Award 4 technicians. Our host recognized the symptoms almost ROLLS & MUSIC immediately and the technicians were quickly pulled from Curing the slips 31 underneath the piano. They soon revived once in fresh air Odd Roll Review 31 with no ill after effects and the leak, a loose gas line coupling, F.l.N.A.L. CHAPTER 24 was speedily made right. lOWA AMEEKA 3 The rest of the meeting went without incident and a good BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES time was had by all. Fleeta Feinmacher 29 INSTRUMENTS Undoing the Pseudo-Art 27 TECHNICALITIES 1 AMEEKA INTERNATIONAL. PHILADELPHIA AMEEKAN' TOP PERFORMER IN GRAND PEDALING CONTEST Miss Virtually Unassisted of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania survived three days of exciting competition between 57 entrants for the title of Miss Pedal Expression of 1926. The climax of her performance was a chilling rendition of Ravel's "Bolero." In spite of Miss Unassisted's delicate appearance, she told this reporter that she normally works out for several hours each day with jogging exercises to build up her leg and ankle muscles while squeezing tennis balls to improve her finger control. Miss Unassisted's inclination to the wearing of long dresses is reputed to hide legs that would be the envy of any football player or grand piano. TINY VORSETZER Rumors of the existance of a tiny vorsetzer (and equally miniscule grand piano) may possibly prove to be a reality as evidenced by'the scaling in the photo shown here. The story has it that the vorsetzer was originally built inside a bottle (as per some sailing ship models) using specially made tools. The piano rolls are said to be accurately scaled and play for about 2.3 seconds, There is some SuspiCIOn cast on the authenticity of the photograph (notice the hand has 6 fingers-curiously enough even numbered so they wouldn't be overlooked) so efforts at verification of this news item will continue. - 4 - ~OL.LS & MUSIC THE SANDMAN'S FROLIC OR HOW I CURED MY SLIPPING ROLLS BY EDIE OTT We've all had our troubles with the long­ playing recut rolls. They slip when crossing the tracker bar and cause annoying pauses in the music. This is particularly evident in some of the rolls that are played rather heavy-handedly by the male artists. These men-o-pauses are especially embarrassing when you're showing off your piano to someone who's never heard a reproducer-a non­ believer.