..................................................................................................... ......................................... .~ . IHTERHATlOHAL OFFICERS CHAPTER OFFICERS PRESIDENT Bob Rosencrans 36 Hampden Rd NO. CALIFORNIA Upper Darby, PA 19082 Pres.: Phil McCoy Vice Pres.: Isadora Koff VICE PRESIDENT Sec.: David Fryman Bill Eicher Treas.: Bob Wilcox 465 Winding Way Reporter: Sharon Bartlett Dayton, OH 45429 SO. CALIFORNIA Pres.: Francis Cherney SECRETARY Vice Pres.: Mary Lilien Jim Weisenborne Sec.: Greg Behnke AMICA MEMBERSHIP RATES: 73 Nevada St. Treas.: Roy Shelso Rochester, MI 48063 Reporter: Bill Toeppe Continuing Members: S IS Dues TEXAS New Members. add SS processing fee PUBLISHER Pres. Carole Beckett Tom Beckett Vice Pres. Sal Mele Lapsed Members. add S3 processing fee 6817 Cliffbrook SeclTreas.: Doyle Cassel Dallas, TX 75240 Reporter: Kay & Merrill Baltzley MIDWEST MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Pres.: Bennet Leedy (New memberships and Vice Pres. Jim Prendergast THE AMICA NEWS BULLETIN mailing problems) Sec.: Jim Weisenborne Charlie W. Johnson Treas.: Alvin Wulfekuhl POBox 38623 Reporter: Molly Yeckley Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association, a non­ Dallas, TX 75238 profit club devoted to the restoratton, distribution and enjoyment of musical PHILADELPHIA AREA instruments uSing perforated paper music rolls. TREASURER Pres. Mike Naddeo COft....lItioft.: All subjects of interest to readers of the Bulletin are Jack & Mary Riffle Vice Pres.: John Berry encouraged and invited by the publisher. All articles must be received by the 5050 Eastside Calpella Rd. Sec.: Dick Price 10th of the preceeding month. Every attempt will be made to publish all articles Ukiah, CA 95482 Treas.: Claire Lambert of general interest to AMICA members at the earliest possible time and at the Reporter: Allen Ford discretion of the publisher BOARD REPRESENTATIVES SOWNY (So. Ontario, West NY) N. 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However, AMICA reserves the rtght to refuse any ad AFFILIATED SOCIETIES NEW ENGLAND that IS not In keeping with AM ICA's general standards or If complaints are The Player Piano Group. Pres.: Alan Pier received indicating that said business does not serve the best interests of the The North West Player Piano Vice Pres.: William Koenigsberg members ot AMICA according to Its goals and bylaws Association. Sec. AI Greco Treas.. Philip Konop Reporter Ray Magee AMICA ITEMS AMICA TECHNICALITIES BOOKS: AMICA STATIONERY: $3.20 (letter size), Volume I (1969-1971), $5.50 postpaid; $1.75 (note size), including mailing charges. FOR SALE Volume II (1972-1974), $7.50 postpaid, Fine quality stationery with ornate AMICA borders. Each packet contains 25 letters and AMICA BULLETINS, BOUND ISSUES: Volume III (1975-1977), $8.50 postpaid. Reprints of interesting technical articles matching envelopes. Send orders to: Robert 1971, 1972,1973 - bound sets at $15.00 each which have appeared In the AMICA Bulletin, Lemon, 4560 Green Tree Drive, Sacramento, set. 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 at $18.00 arranged and indexed into appropriate CA 94823 each set. PRICES INCLUDE POSTAGE AND categories. Send orders to: Jim Weisenborne, HANDLING. Spiral bound to lay flat. Send "They All Laughed When I Sat Down At 73 Nevada Street, Rochester, MI 48063. orders to Mary Lilien, 4260 Olympiad Drive, The Piano, But When IT Began To Play." Los Angeles, CA 90043 This sound and color super-8 movie, produced by AMICA members, is available ROLL LEADERS: DUO-ART, Authentic, For PLEASE MAKE ALL CHECKS PA YABLE TO for loan to AMICA members and chapters. order sheet, see the April 1973 Bulletin. Nick AMICA INTERNA TlONAL For more information write to Howard Koff, Jarrett, 3622 21 st street, San Francisco, CA 2141 Deodara Drive, Los Altos, CA 94022. 94114. Jnfernafional JlcJr(J(8Jl SLUMP IN BULLETIN ARTICLES At the present rate of incoming articles it is more sensible for me to recommend to the AMICA Board that we drop four CAUSE FOR CONCERN issues a year and see if we can compile enough material for an BY TOM BECKETT every-ather-month production. I hope this solution won't be necessary as that makes for a long time between Bulletins. The last six months or so the number of member-written and Please help with YOllr articles. Incoming response between donated articles for the Bulletin has dropped to the lowest now and the Philadelphia Annual Meeting will have a great levels for such an extended period that I can recall since bearing on a recommendation for scheduling adjustment. becoming publisher in mid-1975. Unlike the occasional one to two month slump I have experienced in the past, this latest decline of articles has been disheartingly steady. I have received a fair number of articles clipped from CORRECTION previously published sources but many of these are rejected Many of you have noted that there are some errors in the because (a) I cannot get permission to produce reprints, (b) AMICA Membership Directory in spite of the careful efforts there has already been an abundance of recent material of producers and proofreaders. At best we can normally only reprinted in the Bulletin on this subject (generally a current hope to rectify these shortcomings in subsequent printings of noteworthy pianist), or (c) the article is (unfortunately) an all­ the directory. However, Dick Reutlinger (whose address and too-typical write-up of an AMICAn's collection in his local telephone number are part of the AM ICA Headquarters) paper which, due to the lack of understanding by the local notes an error in the listing of his telephone number has news reporter, is sprinkled with inaccuracies and sounds very caused some difficulties for those wanting AMICA much like the last such article I reprinted. The result is that information. In your directory please change the 356 in Dick's our overall gain in kno\-vledge is not enhanced to any great prefix to 346 so his telephone number will read: (415) 346­ degree. 8669. There is still a lot of uncovered and unpublished information to be printed if only someone will write it. Remember how beautifully Charles Innes responded to my request for someone to cover the Violano a couple of years ago? There AMPICO AUTO PLATE ../ are lots of instruments that haven't been dissected on our pages yet! How about some details (tubing diagrams, The picture caption of Ron BopIJ receiving a Missouri mechanical descriptions, histories, repair information, "Ampico" auto license plate prompts me to wonder how INTERNAL photos) on some of the various nickelodeons, many other AMICAns have hobby-related personalized plates. orchestrions, band organs, etc.? How about articles on the If you do, would you drop me a postcard with your state and many musical museums, biographies of current artists, and "message"? I'll compile them for a while and list them in a other hobby related fields? few months. TB The biggest dilemma facing your publisher is producing a Bulletin of sufficient size on a regular schedule. The 24 page size is about the minimum needed to achieve production and postal economies and if I don't have enough material one choice is to hold back an issue until I do. The alternative, which I have had to use in the past, is using more (and less satisfying from an educational standpoint) "filler" than I believe in good tatse for our quality publication. INDEX INTERNA TlONAL AMICA 21 AMICA FORUM 24 ROLLS & MUSIC 25 INSTRUMENTS Music at John Wanamaker's 27 Northern California 33 Midwest 34 PERSONALIZED PLATE: Dr. Ronald Bopp, right on S.O.W.N. Y. 36 Tuesday receives his personalized license plate, the first to be Rocky Mountain 37 issued in Joplin under a new state law, from Paul McWilliams, Iowa 39 branch manager of the State Motor Vehicle Marine and BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Drivers Licensing Division office. AMPICO stands for Edwin Welte 41 American Piano Co., a defunct firm which once produced TECHNICALITIES 44 player pianos. Dr. Bopp is a member of American Musical Instrument Collectors Association, a I,OOO-member organization. - 21- MUSICAL POSTAGE AMP The ~Iaiers provided a lovely table filled with tea sandwiches, sr pastries, cookies, coffee and cider for all to enjoy. We are BY THOMAS A. CRUSE most grateful to them for opening their gracious home to make the organization of this chapter possible.