AMICA MEMBERSHIP RATES: Continuing Members: $15 Dues New Members, add $5 processing fee' CHAPTER OFFICERS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Pres.: Phil McCoy INTERNATIONAL Vice Pres.: Isadora Koff Treas.: Bob Wilcox OFFICERS Sec./Reporter: Jack & Dianne Edwards PRESIDENT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Robert M. Taylor THE AMICA NEWS BULLETIN Pres.: Francis Cherney 1326 Spruce St. #3004 Vice Pres.: Mary Lilien Philadelphia, PA 19107 Sec.: Evelyn Meeder Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Treas.: Roy Shelso . VICE PRESIDENT Association, a non-profit club devoted to the restoration, Reporter: Bill Toeppe Terry Smythe distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments using 71 Bourmont Bay TEXAS perforated paper music rolls. Winnepeg, Manitoba Pres.: Jim Phillips Canada R2J 1K2 Vice Pres.: Merrill Baltzley Sec./Treas.: Janet Tonnesen SECRETARY DOROTHY BROMAGE, Publisher Reporter: James Kelsey Jim Weisen borne 73 Nevada St. P.O. Box 387. 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I No. Lights: Trudy Maier Sec.: Linda Repsher Treas.: William Dean Sierra-Nevada: • All copy must reach the publisher by the 10th of the ,', Reporter: Richard Groman , preceding month. IOWA COMMITTEES • Payment must accompany order. Typesetting, layout or Pres.: Lee Zimmerline Technical ,I j size alteration charges will be billed separately. Make Vice Pres.: Stan Peters Mel Luchetti checks payable to: AM!CA INTERNATIONAL. Sec./Treas.: Mary Lou Shimp "I 3449 Mauricia Ave. Reporter: AI Johnson Santa Clara, CA 95051 • All adswill appear on the last pages of the Bulletin at the discretion of the publisher. BOSTON AREA Honorary Members Pres.: William Koenigsberg Alf E. Werolin Publication of business advertising in no way implies AMI­ Vice Pres.: Charles Hazard 2230 Oakdale Rd. CNs endorsement of any commercial operation. However, Sec.: AI Greco Hillsborough, CA 94010 .., AMICA reserves the right to refuse any ad that is not in Treas.: Philip Konop Archives keeping with AMICNs general standards or if complaints are Reporter: Ray Magee jim Weisenborne received indicating that said business does not serve the NORTHERN LIGHTS 73 Nevada St. best interests of the members of AMICA according to its. Pres.: Tom Olds Rochester, MI 48063 goals and bylaws. Vice Pres.: Gene Skarda AMICA Goals Sec.: Dorothy Olds " ". Carole Beckett Treas.: Trudy Maier 6817 Cliffbrook SIERRA-NEVADA Dallas, TX 75240 AFFILIATED SOCIETIES Pres.: Sonja Lemon AUDIO-VISUAL The Player Piano Group Vice Pres: Tim Taormina Howie Koff The North West Player Piano Sec.lTreas.: Vickie Mahr "" , 2141 Deodara Dr. Association Reporter: Lynn and Bill "" " Los Altos, CA 94022 Dutch Band Organ Society \ Tezzaglia \ \ FROM During the Convention, I learned that whenever people ran out of other topics of conversation at dinner, they THE debated the pronunciation of my last name. Well, it rhymes with homage. (Draw your own conclusions.) I .PUBLISHER have never been able to find any word at all that rhymes with my first name. Perhaps, if I had, Louis Alter would Dorothy Bromage have written a song about me instead of about "Do­ lores." Welcome to the Convention issue of the AMICA News Bulletin. The next issue will also dwell on the Pasadena Guidelines for Contributors event. The Eighth International Convention was an ex­ ceptionally rich one. I am very pleased to be the new First of all, be assured that I am vel}' grateful for all the Publisher. You will find your Bulletins originating at pictures, designs and written materials that are sent to Claremont, California. This is the town where I work as me. I would be very upset if I found that the following an elementary school principal and where I find it con­ suggestions had the effect of discouraging anyone. As an venient to have the typesetting, printing and mail-out example, when I receive handwritten articles, I type done for the Bulletin. them before giving them to the typesetter. To make this Thank you, Tom Beckett, for providing me with the step unnecessary, you can send things typed. However, material you had on hand at the close of your term as send what you can, even if you must use handwriting Publisher, and also for time spent with me in Denver due to not having access to typing. and Dallas going over details of the job. I have done Now, about typing. I appreciate double spacing. Itmakes related things before, but never put out a news bulletin editing easier. I do not plan to carve up what you send. in this particular format until now. There are occasional things to fix, though - things I I come from a family of bulletin putter-outers. I~ fact, know you'd want done. Double spacing helps me do my earliest recollection is helping my Dad with "The this. Also, if you abbreviate (for example "bus."), help Muscoy News." (No, an earlier recollection is getting me out by leaving em:>Ugh room so I can write out "busi­ spanked for taking my tricycle apart.) Anyway, it was ness" for the typesetter. done with hectograph, believe it or not - the little Pictures are appreciated. If you find that I have not used .Jnewspaper, that is. every oneyou've sent with an article, it willprobably be My musical credentials, like my collecting interests, are due to having to adjust for space. I love to look at those varied. Tell you about them.later. To get an idea of my gorgeous color shots you send of people and places. It's a particular interest within the field of piano roll collect­ darned shame that color photos reproduce poorly in ing, take a look at the June, 1979, issue of the Bulletin, in black and white. Did you know that the printer's cam­ Bill Toeppe's report for the Southern California Chapter. era thinks red is the same as black? You canget the best Members of my Chapter, by the way, will be assisting results from your color pictures by sending the ones that me with Bulletin mailings. have contrastingareas. Naturally, for theBulletin, ifyou can manage black and white film fpr your pictures, you I hope to hear from many AMICAns as I proceed with are better off. Processing for blackand whiteis available, Bulletin preparation. Comments and suggestions are but might take some scouting. Request glossy prints. I welcome. If you want to call me, that's fine. (Avoid will return pictures, by the way, unless you say you do Sunday mornings, if you can.) The number is 213/697­ not need them back. 1545. I do not have any horror stories to relate about the U.S. Mail. To me, it is a system. I am doing OK so far, by, working with the system. If you know how the system AMICA International July/August works at the La Habra end, it can help us both. Your best News Bulletin 1980 bet is to address all items to the Post Office box, which I INDEX check daily. Special delivery, certified mail, insured AMICA International 110 mail, registered mail - all these work better with the People - Then and Now 112 P.O. box. This is because I'm not home in the daytime. Conventionews .... 114 My home (apartment) address is no big secret. If you use News from the Chapters 120 it, your envelope will compete with other mailed ma­ The Forum . 129 terials for the rather limited space that apartment mail Rolls and Music boxes provide. The mailman does his best. Any large piece he can't fold over is given to the apartment man­ Original Bulletin articles, or material for reprint that ager and a note is left in my mailbox to go to the man­ -....' is of significant historical quality and interest, are ager's office. encouraged and will be rewarded in the form of AMICA membership dues discounts. (Chapter re­ The deadline of receipt by me (for all material) will ports and Forum inquiries are excluded.) continue to be the tenth of each month.