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Vice Pres.: Ron Swanson Haden Vandiver, Texas Sec.: Barbara Macartney International AMICA 90 Ron Swanson, Philadelphia Treas.: Doris Berry AMICA Forum 93 Alan Mueller, S.O.W.N.Y. Reporter: Bill Pilgermayer Rolls and Music 94 Jim Weisenborne, Midwest SOWNY (So. Ontario, West N.Y.) Instruments - The Wangerin Pres.: Richard Drewniak Organ Player 96 Vice Pres.: William Ha tzenbuhler Sec.: Janet Drewniak Northern California 97 Treas.: Stan Aldridge iSouthern California 98 Reporter: Edythe Aldridge Texas 99 Felix Klempka Philadelphia Area 101 ROCKY MOUNTAIN Biographical Sketches: Pending Louis Moreau Gottschalk 103 Technicalities 110 to. Et Jnfernafionaf JlJJ(Jf8Jl • r---" Miss Luba Hambourg, sister of the late Mark Hambourg, the eminent pianist, witnesses the MORE ON MARK HAMBOURG signing of the trust deed of the British Piano BY FRANK HOLLAND Museum by its founder Mr. Frank Holland. Among the items in Mr. Holland's collection The article on Mark Hambourg by Emmet M.Ford on are piano rolls recorded by Mr. Hambourg. page 205 of the November, 1975 issue of the AMICA BULLETIN brought back nostalgic thoughts to me as founder of the (British Piano) museum in 1963. I passed the article on to Michal Hambourg, surviving daughter of Mark Hambourg and also a Patron of the museum. I am pleased to enclose her reply sent to me recently. "VeM Sbt, 1 wa;., veJr.y muc.h inteJr.C6ted to ftead Emmett Foftd'.6 aJtticte about my 6atheJr., MaJtfl HarnboMg, but would Ufle to amend c.eJr.:tain 6aw in thi.6 letteJr.. My gftandpaJten:t.6 weJr.e neveJr. impwoned in RUMia. 1 believe that they weJr.e politic.ally .6U.6pec.:t and c.arne to England thU.6 e.6c.aping aMC6t. My 6atheJr. gave many c.onc.eJr.:t.6 a.6 a boy pftod-<-gy in the yeaJt 1890 and many fuilngu.i.6hed mU.6iuan.6 helped to plan hi.6 6u.:tu.Jte. Finally due to the 9 eneJr.o.6ity 06 PadeJr.ew.6Ili, he Wa.6 .6ent to Vienna to .6tudy with the gfteat teac.heJr. Le.6c.heil.6flYi he Wa.6 twelve yeaJt.6" old and .6pent the next thJtee and a hal6 yeaJt.6 with Le.6c.he.-­ fu fly, mailing hi.6 debut aged MMeen with the Vienna PWhaJtmon-<-c. OftC.hC6:tJta c.onduc.:ted by Vft, Han.6 Ric.h:teJr., a U6e-long 6ftiend and mentOft. At that time he al.60 played wUh the BeJr.Un PWhaJtmon-<-c. undeJr. Under the Department of Education and Science, I WungaJt:tneJr.. Bftahm.6 Wa.6 pftC6 ent at thi.6 c.onc.eJr.:t and had the museum registered as a Charitable Trust 1 have the p!tOgJtam among my :tJtea.6Med mU.6ic.al mem­ in 1966, and the Trust Deed was witnessed by no oJtabilia. In 1895 my 6atheJr. embaJtfled on hi.6 6iJt.6t woftld tOM, then 60llowed tOu.Jt.6 in Bftdain, on the others than the Hon. Mrs. Dorothea Hambourg, wife Continent, and in the To the 6inC6t of Mark .Hambourg, and also by Luba Hambourg, Mark's U. S. A.. me, sister. The Trustees are, needless to say, delighted example 06 hi.6 playing an piano !tOlli i.6 the Vuo- to have these eminent names on this document. My Au !tOll No. 5699, "La SOMc.e, Op. 36, No.4" by LC6c.heil.6fly. FJtanfl Holland ha.6 thi.6 !tOll in hi.6 mother, Daisy Kirby, remembers playing way back in 1900 with three of Mark's sisters, Galia, Mania and, c.ollec.ilon and it i.6 a U6e-Ufle ftepftoduc.ilon 06 the maJtveUoU.6 eneJr.gy and mU.6ic.aU:ty a6 my 6atheJr.'.6 of course, Luba, who helped in founding the museum playing. in its early days. Unhappily, Luba died later in All good wi.6hC6 1966. yOu.Jt.6 .6inc.eJr.ely Mic.hal HamboMg" Mrs. Hambourg expressed interest in the music rolls, and mentioned that she remembered going with Mark to Leipzeg to make several rolls of music for the DEA and Triphonola systems. 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Ampico recording artist; recorded accompaniments In 1924 the American Piano Company decided to es­ for own compositions; composer of over 1100 tablish a fully equipped research laboratory in the pieces. new Chickering Hall in New York under the direction of Charles Fuller Stoddard, the inventor of the John Duke - Northampton, Massachusetts. Ampico. Mr. Stoddard realized the need for a phy­ Ampico editor. Recording artist for Ampico and sicist and mathematician in undertaking more ad­ Duo-Art. vanced research in the operation of reproducing instruments.