On a sunny Saturday in July members of AMBC brought their barrel pianos, organs and organettes to entertain the visitors at Amberley Museum. Ted also gave a series of talks in “The Hayloft” on musical boxes and other forms of mechanical music.
We based ourselves around and near to the village green, where there was also a small children’s traditional … Read More
Spring 2016 edition
List of Contents-
Saturday 4th June:
AGM followed by Organ Grind: At the Old School from 10.30am
Saturday 16th July:
AMBC will be providing entertainment and talks at Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre
This should be a really good day out. The museum is full of fascinating exhibits to do with technology, transport, crafts and communications. There will also be a visiting … Read More
About 30 years ago I managed to buy my first key-wind musical box, a Nicole Freres serial number 36261, factored by Cox Savory, Cornhill, London, in about 1858.
I was giving talks on mechanical music to groups and at one of these a gentleman offered to sell me a musical box. This had never happened before and I became very … Read More
A 36 page Winter 2015/16 edition 
This week marked the first anniversary of our inaugural meeting in February 2015.
During the course of the year the membership has been steadily growing. We have produced two editions of “Mechanical Music World”, with a third imminent; launched this website; enjoyed four meetings and two outings and published Paul Bellamy’s authoritative book on “The Music Makers of Switzerland”.
In … Read More
10:00 – 16:00 Saturday 9th April
Soper Hall, Caterham, Surrey, CR3 6HY
Exhibits and Demonstrations – including an AMBC Stand… Read More
Shigenobu Nagamori is the Chair of Nidec Sankyo and also the Chairman and President of the parent company of Nidec. Sankyo Seiki Mfg. Co. was founded in 1946 and by 1950 they were mass-producing musical movements. In their heyday they accounted for about 90% of the world’s production. Sankyo is in the process of renovating its Lake Suwa Musical Box … Read More
