The AMICA News Bulletin of the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Association . " . _: .. ' .;".: August/September 1983 Volume 20 Number 7 AMICA International Continuing Members: $20 Annual Dues AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS' ASSOCIATION Overseas Members: $26 Dues New Members, add $5 processing fee NEWS BULLETIN (Write to Membership Secretary, PUBLISHER see address below) Dorothy Bromage Single back issues of the News Bulletin are P.O. Box 387 available from the Publisher for $2.00 each. La Habra, CA 90633-0387 Change of Address: If you move, send the USA new address and phone number to the Membership Secretary, Will Wild and Published by the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors' Valerie Anderson Association, a non-profit club devoted to the restoration, distribution and enjoyment of musical instruments using INTERNATIONAL OfFICERS perforated paper music rolls. AMICA was founded in San Francisco in 1963. 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They fea­ short slide sound presentation, which was given at the ture a roll leader with IIAMICA" on it. They can be Annual Business Meeting in Chicago, in July. Any purchased by writing to Dick Reutlinger, 824 Grove St., Chapter having available for its use a Singer Caramate San Francisco, CA 94117. Make check payable to Projector or a Kodak Ektagraphic Audio Viewer Pro­ AMICA International. The price includes postage and jector, may obtain the slide/sound set from Ron Bopp, handling. These pins look well with women's clothing Rt. 6, Box 676, Joplin, MO. 64801, for use at any Chapter as well as on the lapel of a man's jacket. (Very nice Meetings. holiday gift.) ~ ~ ~ ....... •.•••••• ;.,..",..,..,...".,. ,', • ,til,' f'; fe, f', ,t, " ,AIf" •••••••.....,. ••,,,•••• ..... ,t, ",., ; ••••••••.; •••••••••.••••,.,...•.•., CHAPTER OFFICERS AMICA International News Bulletin FOUNDING CHAPTER NEW JERSEY Volume 20 Number 7 August/September 1983 Pres: Phil McCoy Pres: Edward Freyer CONTENTS Vice Pres: Isadora Koff Vice Pres: Oliver Vitakis Treas: Bob Wilcox Sec: Marge Vitakis AMICA International 167 Sec/Reporter: Jack and Dianne Edwards Treas: lenny Finkel Instruments 185 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Reporter: R. F. Groman Pres: Roy Shelso IOWA People 171 Vice Pres: Warren and Rosemary Deasy Pres: AI Johnson The Forum 187 Sec: Holly and Peggy Hollingsworth Vice Pres: George Apland Treas: les Cordell SeclTreas: Bob Shimp Book Review 186 Reporter: Bill Toeppe Reporter: Jack Niewoehner Rolls and Music 170 TEXAS BOSTON AREA News from the Chapters 175 Pres: Dick Barnes Pres: Barry Kasindorf Vice Pres: Bob Smith Vice Pres: Charles Hazard SeclTreas: Betty Plonien Sec: Bill Koenigsberg Reporter: Tom Beckett Treas: Philip Konop MIDWEST Reporter: Donald Brown Cover: Abram Chasins, AMICA Honorary Member, Pres: Edwin Ward NORTHERN LIGHTS celebrated his 80th birthday in August. See articles Vice Pres: Ruth Owen Pres: Steve leppa this issue. New York Times photo by Gene Maggio. Sec: lawrence and Margaret Frazer Vice Pres: Terry Goepel Treas: Alvin Wulfekuhl Sec: Barbara leppa Reporter: Sue Ricca Treas: Robert & Katheryn Dumas PHILADELPHIA AREA SIERRA· NEVADA Pres: Bob Rosencrans Pres: Ken Winters Vice Pres: Barbara McCartney Vice Pres: Sonja Lemon Sec: Frank Basil SeclTreas: Audrey Winters Treas: Mac Taylor Reporter: Mel and Karen Locher Reporter: Bill Pilgermayer CHICAGO AREA 1984 Convention SOWNY (SOUTHERN ONTARIO, Pres: Jim Edwards Greater Kansas City Area WESTERN NY) Vice Pres: Carol Dayton and Mabel Zivin •• •• Pres: Jim Brewer Sec: Bob and Gloria Taylor June 21·24 Vice Pres: Jan Drewniak Treas: Bill and Dee Kavouras Sec: Alice Guhlow Reporter: Wynette Edwards Treas: Jim and Chris Barley HEART OF AMERICA Reporter: Fred Buchwald Pres: Ron Connor ROCKY MOUNTAIN Vice Pres: Tom Hellstein AFFILIATED SOCIETIES Pres: Jere De Backer Sec: leonard Railsback The Player Piano Group (England) Vice Pres: Bill Arthur Treas: Margaret Taylor The North West Player Piano Sec: Rae Burdette Reporter: Craig Brougher Association (England) Treas: Art Tarr Netherlands Mechanical Organ Reporter: Deane and Patty Fehrman SOUTHEAST AREA: Society - KDV Pres: John O'loughlin Australian Collectors of Mechanical Vice Pres: David Van Koevering Musical Instruments Treas: David Bair Sec/Reporter: David Burke Dutch Pianola Association Society of Friends of Mechanical Musical Instruments (Germany) <> 167 <> * CONl'ENTIONEWS * ,r----. -:"!' -" CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE - A NEW PERSPECTIVE - AN OLD TRADITION - CHESS ON THE LAKE. The pieces from left to right are: John Hancock, 100 stories high, offering spectacular viewing from its observation deck, Water Tower Place, seven-story atrium shopping mall on the Magnificent Mile, Marina Towers, twin circular apartment towers on the Chicago River, and at the far right, the First National Bank in the foreground and directly behind it the white marble Standard Oil Building, the fourth tallest building in the World. (Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau Photo) Conventionews New Membership Secretary by Dorothy Bromage Since the resignation of Bobby Clark as Membership The Chicago skyline is an unforgettable scene and so Secretary, the Board has been faced with securing some- is the Chicago Convention just concluded the middle of one else for the position, although ordinarily it would July. Highlights of the Convention will appear in the not be vacant until June of 1984. It is the Board's respon­ Bulletin as they are produced. sibility to fill mid-tenn vacancies for the balance of the term of office. Upon recommendation of the Nominat- ing Committee, which did the search for a successor to Bobby, Will Wild and Valerie Anderson were named to fill the unexpired term. Will and Valerie will be the contact for membership matters now. See the Bulletin masthead for phone number and address - which for­ tunately is the same P.O. Box in Columbia, South Carolina used by Bobby.