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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

Summer 2018

List of Contents

• AGM and Chairman’s Report
• April 29th Meeting Report
• AMBC exhibits at BHI Open Day
• Members visit the Tyvand Collection in America
• Musical Snuff Boxes
• Tomy Musical Toys
• Visit to the Rye Heritage Centre Collection of Automata
• The Organino
• The Melodeon

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Inspiring a new generation.

Come and visit our stand at the Fete in the Park

Saturday 14th July

Spring 2018

List of Contents

• Chairman’s Report
• Meeting 25th February
• Barnet Henry Abrahams
• Britannia Disc Boxes
• A Most Unusual Musical Mangle
• HAV Bulleid and Cuendet
• Cuendet Tune Sheets
• The Harp That Once …. 

This is our second “Little Blue Book”, a companion edition to “An Introduction to Mechanical Music”.

There are 24 pages lavishly illustrated in full colour with over 200 examples of the many types of inexpensive musical novelties, from powder compacts to pianos, tins to teapots and much, much more.

£5 per copy plus postage

UK postage £1

Europe postage ££2.50… Read More

Following the success of their first Open Day in 2016, the South London                                                            Branch of the BHI decided to hold another on the 14th April at the Soper  Hall in Caterham.

Once again we were pleased to be invited to exhibit at this popular event as it provided an opportunity to promote an interest in mechanical music to a wider … Read More

Winter 2018

List of Contents

• Chairman’s Report
• Christmas Meeting Report
• Mattel – the history of their musical toys
• Mermod Freres Orphan Tune Sheet
• Two Simple Automata
• Breker Saleroom Report
• Nicole ‘Two-per-Turn’ and a Cuendet ‘Sublime Harmonie Piccolo’
• Cuendet Family History
• A Letter from Paillard & Co
• Who was L Gangloff?
• Musical Box Music and Composers – Part 5
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