Category Archive for ‘Latest News’

Autumn 2019

List of Contents

• Chairman’s Report

• August Meeting Report
• Toy Gramophones and Phonographs
• The Mikiphone
• AMBC September Auction
• MBSI Annual Meeting
• Through the Looking Glass – Automata Museums
• The Edison “Fireside” Phonograph
• AMBC Member in the News

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Summer 2019

List of Contents

• Chairman’s Report
• April Meeting Report
• June Meeting Report
• Repairing a Manivelle
• A Three-Dimensional Automaton Picture
• Restoration of a Cylinder Musical Box
• Kinetic Sculptures and Automata
• Heinrich Zumsteg Musical Box
• Visit to Rudesheim

Saturday 14th September – 11 am at The Old School, Bucks Green,RH12 3JP

Those wishing to bid must become AMBC members and can join on the day. Viewing by appointment on Friday 13th September (Tel: 01403 823533) and one hour before the sale.

The carnival will take place on Saturday 3rd August with a parade through the town starting at 5pm.

An AMBC member will ride on a float with a display of some of his collection of mechanical musical instruments. After the parade he will be happy to demonstrate these.

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Announcing the publication of the latest AMBC book by Paul Bellamy

This hardback A4 book has 126 pages in full colour with over 140 photographs and 15 pages of diagrams

First edition of 100 at £22.50 per copy

Standard postage:

UK £5

Europe £11

Rest of the world £16

Please contact us for postage on multiple purchases

Orders … Read More

Spring 2019

List of Contests

• Chairman’s Report
• February Meeting Report
• Matchbox Musical Toys
• Alibert and his Inscribed Numbers
• Restoring a Marotte
• Yester Year – a Street Piano
• Charles Ullmann’s Baton and Bells
• Music Boxes at Auction
• Book Review: Creativity and Innovation in the Music Industry
• Study of a Nicole Hymn Box

Winter 2018/19

List of Contents

• Chairman’s Report
• Christmas Meeting Report
• My EMG Gramophone
• Hints from ‘Amateur Work’ Magazine 1893
• An Unusual Musical Toy
• A Visit to the Automatenmuseum, Espelkamp
• Sale Report from Auction Team Breker
• A Sur Plateau Musical Snuff Box
• Mechanical Elephant in Nantes
• A Large L’Epee with Bells and Drum

Autumn 2018

List of Contents

• Chairman’s Report
• Visit to Espelkamp for the AGM of GFSM
• August Chanctonbury Ring Meeting
• Fete in the Park
• Small Table Barrel Organs
• Another Toy Piano
• How Street Musicians Influenced Sheet Music
• The Bells of St James’

Committee members of AMBC recently attended the AGM weekend of the German Gesellschaft fur Selbstspielende Musikinstrumente held at Schloss Benkhausen in Espelkamp, Westphalia.

The castle complex houses the headquarters of the Gauselmann group, the hotel where we stayed and also the Automaten Museum. The museum houses the private collection of coin-in-the-slot machines belonging to Paul Gauselmann, who the welcomed us … Read More