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Aeolian Duo-scope

A Late little Musical Box

Moldacot Sewing Machine

AMBC In Memory of Ted Brown

AMBC Foundation Meeting

AMBC Meeting with Paul Bellamy September 2025

AMBC Meeting with MBSGB - Coultershaw - July 2025

AMBC Members Meeting August 2024

AMBC Society Meeting September 2023

AMBC Society Meeting August 2022

AMBC Petworth Meeting February 2020

AMBC Meeting February 2019

AMBC Meeting April 2019

AMBC Meeting June 2019

AMBC Meeting August 2019

AMBC Meeting: November 2019

AMBC Meeting February 2018

AMBC Meeting: April 2018

AMBC Meeting August 2018

AMBC Meeting November 2018

AMBC Meeting February 2017

AMBC Meeting June 2017

AMBC Meetings Report 2017

AMBC Meeting September 2017

AMBC Meeting November 2017

AMBC Meeting September 2016

AMBC Annual General Meeting June 2016

AMBC Meeting February 2016

AMBC Autumn Meeting 2015

Auctions: Mechanical Auctions and the Vanishing Audience

Auctions: An Auction for Every Pocket

Auctions: Belgian Beer King Breaks Record in Cologne

Auctions: How Music was Made

Auctions: Mechanical Music & Automata

Auctions: Mechanical Music Report Eastbourne 2023

Auctions: SAS Auction of late Graham Webb

Auctions: Team Breker - Clocking up the Records

Auctions: Team Breker Köln Germany November 2023

Auctions: Team Breker: Lights..Camera..Action

Auctions: Team Breker's sale May 2024

Auctions: Technology Auction winds up on a high note

Auctions: AMBC Auction September 2019

Automata: AutomataFest 2025

Automata: At the Seaside

Automata: Automata or not?

Automata: Boxing clever: An appreciation of UK Automata Collection Boxes

Automata: Comical Cat Diorama

Automata: The Defender of Time and the Grand Puppeteer

Automata: Created in the Heart of Wales. A visit to Timberkits

Automata: Discovered in Museum collections

Automata: Enjoyment of Kinetic Sculpture and Automata

Automata: Exploring Gormenghast Castle

Automata: Fascination of Zimingzhon

Automata: Fred the Head Introduction

Automata: Fred the Head Part 1

Automata: From Circuit Boards to Clockwork Springs

Automata: Geert Hautekiet's Magnificent Automata Carousel

Automata: Getting your Automata "fix" during Lockdown

Automata: At Kew Gardens Pagoda

Automata: Opium Dream Machine

Automata: Rock & Roll Automaton

Automata: Smoking Automaton

Automata: Another Smoking Automaton

Automata: A Three Dimensional Musical Automaton Picture

Automata: Through the Looking Glass & Glimpses of Madness

Automata: Time to spend a Penny

Automata: A Toy Automata Picture

Automata: Two Simple Automata

Automata: Water driven automata at Helbrunn Palace Austria

Automata: Quartet of Automata

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Issue 33 page 24

Issue 42 page 20

Issue 42 page 5

Issue 01 page 3

Issue 42 page 8

Issue 41 page 7

Issue 38 page 4

Issue 34 page 7

Issue 30 page 9

Issue 20 page 4

Issue 16 page 3

Issue 17 page 3

Issue 17 page 7

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Issue 19 page 3

Issue 12 page 3

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Issue 15 page 4

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Issue 11 page 3

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Issue 21 page 3

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Issue 16 page 25

Issue 11 page 11

Issue 34 page 16

Issue 27 page 10

Issue 26 page 15

Issue 34 page 20

Issue 24 page 11

Issue 36 page 7

Issue 23 page 16

Issue 18 page 16

Issue 40 page 22

Issue 26 page 21

Issue 37 page 17

Issue 20 page 18

Issue 38 page 22

Issue 39 page 20

Issue 28 page 6

Issue 34 page 15

Issue 17 page 17

Issue 23 page 18

Issue 36 page 18

Issue 03 page 25

Issue 08 page 21

Issue 33 page 18

Issue 29 page 22

Issue 25 page 23

Issue 30 page 18

Issue 38 page 15

Issue 28 page 9

Issue 31 page 25

Issue 41 page 31

Issue 11 page 9

Issue 18 page 9

Issue 13 page 20

Issue 37 page 26

Issue 11 page 9

Issue 31 page 21

Issue 30 page 3

Barrel Organ: Black Forest Barrel organ Clock

Barrel Organ: German 27-Key 'Melodeon' Barrel Reed Organ

Barrel Organ: Small Table Barrel Organs from the British Isles

Barrel Pianos: A CD Review

Barrel Piano: Canon Wintle and a Pasquale Barrel Piano Restoration

Barrel Piano: Eldorado Barrel Piano Orchestrion

Barrel Pianos: The Hicks Barrel Pianos

Barrel Piano: Hicks Barrel Piano

Barrel Piano: Hicks & Taylor

Barrel Piano: A Late Georgian English Barrel Piano

Bells: Bells of Saint James' Vancouver

Bells: A Large L'Épée with Bells & Drum

Bells: Musical Boxes with Bells - a History

Bells: Nicole Freres Musical Boxes with Bells

Bells: Charles Ullman's Baton and Bells

Bells: An Unusual Glockenspiel

Book Review: Figures in 4th Dimension Mechanical Movement Puppets & Automata

Book Review: Creativity & Innovation in the Music Industry

Issue 20 page 29

Issue 13 page 25

Issue 14 page 9

Issue 10 page 9

Issue 29 page 16

Issue 03 page 13

Issue 05 page 10

Issue 40 page 14

Issue 33 page 11

Issue 02 page 17

Issue 14 page 21

Issue 15 page 26

Issue 09 page 11

Issue 24 page 6

Issue 16 page 21

Issue 09 page 18

Issue 02 page 18

Issue 16 page 21

Church Music: All Things Bright & Beautiful Nicole Freres Piano Forte

Church music: Another Hymn Box

Church music: Oratorio All things Bright and Beautiful

Clocks: Big Ben

Clocks: Black Forest Barrel Organ Clock

Clocks: The Clement Clock

Clocks: Making of Quarters and Chimes 1

Clocks: Making of Quarters and Chimes 2

Clocks: Musical Bracket Clock by Robert Rossellini, Liverpool

Clocks: A Napoleon Hat Chiming Clock

Clocks: Street clocks in England incorporating Automata

Collections: Fascination of Box Lids

Collections: Found in a Cellar

Collections: Four Piano's and a Dog

Collections: French Musical Trivets

Collections: Henri Métert, Geneva, No.3013

Collections: Home Amusements

Collections: How Many Musical Boxes?

Collections: Looking at Photograph Albums

Collections: My First Key-wind Musical Box

Collections: Musical Box Operating Instructions

Collections: Nicole "Two-per-Turn" and a Cuendet 'Sublime Harmonic Piccolo'

Collections: Oh, Ye Spiers of Oxford

Collections: The Organino

Collections: Pair of Crown Devon Musical Jugs

Collections: Some early pieces from my Collection

Collections: Sorrento - Home of the Modern Musical Box

Collections: An Uncommon Ducommun

Collections: Who made my Box?

Collections: Who made my Musical Box?

Collections: Who was L. Gangloff?

Composers: Musical Box Music & Composers Part 1

Composers: Musical Box Music & Composers Part 2

Composers: Musical Box Music & Composers Part 3

Composers: Musical Box Music & Composers Part 4

Composers: Musical Box Music & Composers Part 5

Composers: Muzio Clementi

Cylinder Boxes: 4/77 PVF Mandoline Zither Petites Musique Box

Cylinder Boxes: Using AI for Tunesheet Restoration

Cylinder Boxes: A Musical Box made by Alder - Jean-Marc Lebout

Cylinder Boxes: Auguste L'Épée Company's Experiment in Changeable Cylinders

Cylinder Boxes: Capt'ivating Musical Boxe

Cylinder Boxes: Composition Cased Musical Boxes

Cylinder Boxes: A Big Little Musical Box

Cylinder Boxes: Henriot restored for East Surrey Museum

Cylinder Boxes: L'Epée/Nicole

Cylinder Boxes: 'Martinet et Benoit' Overture Cylinder Box

Cylinder Boxes: Some Musings about Mermod

Cylinder Boxes: Musical Terms for Cylinder Musical Boxes

Cylinder Boxes: Nicole "Two-per-Turn" and a Cuendet 'Sublime Harmonic Piccolo'

Cylinder Boxes: Franz Rzebitschek Cartel

Cylinder Boxes: Second Supplement to the book-Cylinder boxes et al

Cylinder Boxes: Some simple tips on restoring a Cylinder Musical Box

Cylinder Boxes: An Unusual Revolver Musical Box

Cylinder Boxes: Wagram, Washington,Waterloo

Issue 35 page 19

Issue 16 page 28

Issue 35 page 19

Issue 07 page 18

Issue 20 page 29

Issue 22 page 4

Issue 20 page 14

Issue 41 page 25

Issue 29 page 3

Issue 29 page 25

Issue 24 page 22

Issue 06 page 20

Issue 21 page 10

Issue 43 page 18

Issue 21 page 21

Issue 28 page 25

Issue 35 page 5

Issue 25 page 3

Issue 06 page 6

Issue 04 page 22

Issue 29 page 14

Issue 11 page 13

Issue 21 page 14

Issue 13 page 24

Issue 40 page 24

Issue 25 page 13

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Issue 03 page 7

Issue 06 page 18

Issue 28 page 20

Issue 11 page 22

Issue 07 page 16

Issue 08 page 26

Issue 09 page 25

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Issue 11 page 25

Issue 10 page 10

Issue 38 page 11

Issue 43 page 20

Issue 41 page 23

Issue 19 page 6

Issue 26 page 3

Issue 36 page 4

Issue 19 page 23

Issue 42 page 22

Issue 05 page 8

Issue 04 page 8

Issue 43 page 12

Issue 43 page 8

Issue 11 page 13

Issue 41 page 33

Issue 32 page 12

Issue 17 page 13

Issue 27 page 3

Issue 24 page 13

Disk Musical Boxes: A Film Called "Labyrinth"

Disk Musical Boxes: Barnet Henry Abrahams

Disk Musical Boxes: Oh Mr Porter

Dolls: The Hidden Secret

Issue 43 page 6

Issue 12 page 9

Issue 03 page 20

Issue 22 page 8

Gramophones: The Allen-Hough Portable Gramophone

Gramophones: Edison "Fireside Phonograph

Gramophones: First Time, the, I ever saw (and used) an EMG Gramophone

Gramophones: J Thomas Rhamstine - Who Invented What?

Gramophones: The Phonograph - It will Never Catch On

Gramophones: Two Heads are better than One. Duophone Gramophone

Gramophones: Toy Gramophones and Phonographs

Gramophones: What has two arms and six feet?

Gramophones: Harry Seymour - the Man who invented Hi-Fi

Gramophones: My EMG Gramophone

Gramophones: A 78 Revolution

Gramophones: The Development of HMV's Record Players 1930-1950

Gramophones: The Smallest Gramophone in the World

Gramophones: World's First combined Radio-Gramophone

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Issue 18 page 23

Issue 05 page 23

Issue 27 page 22

Issue 04 page 24

Issue 09 page 22

Issue 18 page 8

Issue 35 page 4

Issue 32 page 5

Issue 15 page 8

Issue 20 page 6

Issue 37 page 7

Issue 18 page 14

Issue 29 page 3

Harps: The Harp that once…

History: Musical Box Agents Part 1

History: Musical Box Agents Part 2

History: All about Names Part 1

History: All about Names Part 2

History: Another Victorian Machine is Made Redundant

History: Auguste L'Épée and P.H.Paur

History: Barnet Henry Abrahams

History: Heinrich Zumsteg and his Long Playing Musical Box

History: How Street Musicians Influenced Sheet Music

History: In Days Gone By

History: Lecoultre Frères

History: Let's put the record straight

History: Life and Times of Richard James Spiers

History: A Link with the Past

History: The Making of a Musical Disk, rare as a Hen's Tooth

History: Murder most Foul

History: Musical Box signed Alder

History: Not a Musical Movement, but something very similar

History: On Music from the Mid 18th Century

History: M.J.Paillard & Co New York City

History: Paillard's Other String

History: Queen's Platinum Jubilee Year

History: Recording in the Early Days

History: Snuffboxes: A Review of their History 1

History: Snuffboxes: A Review of their History 2

History: Some clues about Cuendet - a summary of the family history

History: The Talented Bulleids

History: Ten Years On

History: A Trip through Musical Box Time

History: Update on Scumble

History: The Music Hall Tradition

History: Wonders of Nature & Art

History: Yesteryear Coronation 1958

History: Yesteryear Railways, Escalators & Elevators

History: A Yesteryear Street Piano

History: An Interesting Record Cover

Issue 12 page 19

Issue 39 page 9

Issue 41 page 28

Issue 01 page 14

Issue 02 page 14

Issue 02 page 8

Issue 21 page 22

Issue 12 page 7

Issue 17 page 21

Issue 14 page 15

Issue 15 page 11

Issue 26 page 8

Issue 30 page 25

Issue 21 page 18

Issue 08 page 19

Issue 21 page 6

Issue 22 page 22

Issue 08 page 6

Issue 41 page 32

Issue 03 page 3

Issue 05 page 17

Issue 36 page 25

Issue 29 page 19

Issue 25page 26

Issue 02 page 9

Issue 01 page 9

Issue 11 page 17

Issue 28 page 3

Issue 40 page 4

Issue 27 page 16

Issue 32 page 9

Issue 41 page 21

Issue 40 page 25

Issue 09 page 20

Issue 06 page 17

Issue 18 page 18

Issue 25 page 11

Manivelles: The Magical Little Manivelle Part 1

Manivelles: The Magical Little Manivelle Part 2

Manivelles: Some Hints on Repairing a Manivelle

Manivelles: An Unusual Manivelle Disc Player

Miscellaneous: A Different way to Play Records

Miscellaneous: Marriage is not a Failure

Miscellaneous: Most Unusual Musical Mangle

Miscellaneous: Christian Ritscard and his Musical Tortoise

Miscellaneous: Who was Gevril

Museums/Collections: AMBC Outing Spring 2015. Musical Museum

Museums/Collections: Birthday Treat - A Visit to Rudesheim

Museums/Collections: Cotton Museum on the Move

Museums/Collections: Elephant in the Room - Visit L'Ile de Nantes

Museums/Collections: Enjoyment of Kinetic Sculpture, Sharmanka Theatre Glasgow

Museums/Collections: Farewell to the Revelstoke Nickelodeon

Museums/Collections: Fete in Petworth Park

Museums/Collections: 50th Anniversary of the Rudesheim Kabinett

Museums/Collections: Hall of Halls Kiyosato Moeginomura

Museums/Collections: In the Footsteps of Heath Robinson

Museums/Collections: It's about Time - British Horological Institute Open Day

Museums/Collections: MBSI Annual Meeting, Detroit

Museums/Collections: Magic of the Silver Swan

Museums/Collections: Suffolk. Visit by AMBC

Museums/Collections: No Tulips Many Cheese. Visit to Speelklok Holland

Museums/Collections: Visit to Amberley Heritage Centre

Museums/Collections: Visits to Normandy and Stratford-Upon-Avon museums

Museums/Collections: Visit to Espelkamp

Museums/Collections: Visit to Siegfried's Mechanisches Musikkabinet

Museums/Collections: Visit to Tyvand Collection

Museums/Collections: Visit to V&A Childhood Museum

Museums/Collections: When the Penny drops. Visit to Gauselmann Collection

Issue 01 page 12

Issue 25 page 18

Issue 17 page 10

Issue 40 page 30

Issue 39 page 13

Issue 36 page 8

Issue 12 page 12

Issue 07 page 22

Issue 07 page 14

Issue 02 page 6

Issue 17 page 24

Issue 09 page 08

Issue 15 page 24

Issue 17 page 17

Issue 01 page 17

Issue 14 page 7

Issue 19 page 13

Issue 24 page 24

Issue 41 page 14

Issue 05 page 4

Issue 18 page 17

Issue 34 page 22

Issue 06 page 13

Issue 09 page 4

Issue 06 page 5

Issue 18 page 19

Issue 14 page 4

Issue 03 page 4

Issue 13 page 11

Issue 21 page 27

Issue 15 page 14

Organs: The Aeolian

Organs: An Afternoon with a Wonderful Wurlitzer

Organs: Organ Grind, June 2015

Organs: The Phoenix Welte Organ

Organs: Visit to Amersham Fair Organ Museum

Organette: Melodia

Organette: The Patent Gem Organette

Organette: So you want to buy an Organette?

Organette: T.H. McAllister Music to Accompany Magic Lantern Slides

Organette: The Tournaphone

Orchestrelle: Aeolian Orchestrelle

Issue 10 page 14

Issue 03 page 28

Issue 02 page 3

Issue 40 page 16

Issue 32 page 18

Issue 30 page 17

Issue 07 page 13

Issue 01 page 21

Issue 35 page 26

Issue 33 page 26

Issue 08 page 9

Pianos: A Coin-operated Café Piano with Organ Pipes

Pianos: Steinway Spirio the Ultimate Reproducing Piano

Pianos: The Dulcitone

Pianos: Street Piano Medley

Postcards: Picture Postcards

Postcards: Street Organ Postcards

Put another Nicole In

Issue 39 page 25

Issue 08 page 15

Issue 19 page 19

Issue 41 page 10

Issue 40 page 6

Issue 22 page 10

Issue 35 page 12

Repair/Restore: 1/18 Swiss Chalet Restoration

Repair/Restore: Ami Rivenc Musical Box

Repair/Restore: Another Changeable Cylinder Prototype

Repair/Restore: An excellent case for renovation

Repair/Restore: Barrel Piano: Canon Wintle and a Pasquale Barrel Piano Restoration 29

Repair/Restore: Fisher-Price Restoration

Repair/Restore: Henriot Cartel restored for East Surrey Museum

Repair/Restore: My Phoenix Box

Repair/Restore: News, Views and Tips

Repair/Restore: News, Views and Tips 2

Repair/Restore: Palais Royale Necessaire

Repair/Restore: Recalled to Life. Repairing Damaged Disks

Repair/Restore: Repairing a simple Toy Automaton

Repair/Restore: Restoring a Musical Marotte

Repair/Restore: Restoration of a George Baker Cartel Musical Box

Repair/Restore: Restoration of Lecoultre & Falconnet Overture Box

Repair/Restore: Restoring a Sectional Comb Movement

Repair/Restore: Resurrecting a Palais Royal Square Piano Musical Necessaire

Repair/Restore: A Simple Case for a Musical Movement

Repair/Restore: Some simple tips on restoring a Cylinder Musical Box

Repair/Restore: Stop me and Buy One - Ice Cream Van's Musical Movement restored

Repair/Restore: To Restore or not to Restore and Provenance

Repair/Restore: Some Hints on Reparing a Manivelle

Repair/Restore: Sorrento Cigarette Box

Repair/Restore: Making Synthetic Zephyr Skin

Repair/Restore: A Toy Automata Picture

Repair/Restore: Tunbridge Ware Musical Box

Repair/Restore: Repairing Tune Sheets

Repair/Restore: Upcycling Antique Boxes and Orphaned Movements

Repair/Restore: Useful Hints from a Century Ago

Repair/Restore: A Very Special Cartel

Records: Apache Dance

Records: Dance and Popular Music Records arrive in Canada

Issue 40 page 32

Issue 28 page 16

Issue 20 page 25

Issue 23 page 14

Issue 29 page 16

Issue 04 page 20

Issue 42 page 22

Issue 22 page 14

Issue 06 page 25

Issue 07 page 26

Issue 40 page 12

Issue 10 page 23

Issue 27 page 8

Issue 16 page 14

Issue 32 page 23

Issue 24 page 16

Issue 08 page 16

Issue 30 page 6

Issue 20page 16

Issue 17 page 13

Issue 42 page 14

Issue 30 page 22

Issue 17 page 10

Issue 42 page 17

Issue 43 page 24

Issue 37 page 26

Issue 31 page 18

Issue 02 page 21

Issue 41 page 17

Issue 01 page 5

Issue 39 page 3

Issue 02 page 11

Issue 38 page 26

Show & Tell: Show & Tell at Coultershaw

Symphonium Chimes

Snuffbox: Albert and the mystery of his inscribed numbers

Snuffbox: A Bicentenary Silver Musical Snuffbox

Snuffbox: Composition Snuffboxes

Snuffbox: Homes for Orphans

Snuffbox: Laurencekirk Musical Snuffbox

Snuffbox: Making a CD of Snuffbox Music

Snuffbox: Mandolin Snuffbox by M.Bordier

Snuffbox: Painted Lids on Early Musical Snuffboxes

Snuffbox: A Review of their History Part 1

Snuffbox: A Review of their History Part 2

Snuffbox: The Snuffbox according to Grove

Snuffbox: Sur Plateau Musical Snuffbox

Snuffbox: Tabatière in an oval tin box

Issue 40 page 7

Issue 23 page 11

Issue 16 page 10

Issue 13 page 12

Issue 37 page 23

Issue 10 page 18

Issue 13 page 15

Issue 22 page 16

Issue 09 page 27

Issue 27 page 14

Issue 01 page 9

Issue 02 page 9

Issue 03 page 12

Issue 15 page 12

Issue 38 page 13

Toys: Battery Operated Musical Mugs

Toys: Bear with me

Toys: Another Toy Piano

Toys: Fisher-Price Restoration

Toys: Fisher-Price Vintage Musical Box Toys Part 1

Toys: Fisher-Price Vintage Musical Box Toys Part 2

Toys: Golden age of Japanese tin toys

Toys: A Light-Hearted Collection

Toys: Mattel

Toys: Reparing a Simple Toy Automaton

Toys: Selcol

Toys: Ted Brown's Speaking Toy Boxes

Toys: … Tired Little Teddy Bear

Toys: Tomy Musical Toys of the late 20th Century

Toys: Toy Gramophones and Phonographs

Toys: Matchbox Musical Toys

Toys: An Unusual Musical Toy

Toys: Visit to Moving Toys Gallery at V& A Childhood Museum

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Issue 19 page 20

Issue 14 page 13

Issue 04 page 20

Issue 03 page 22

Issue 04 page 14

Issue 22 page 17

Issue 01 page 6

Issue 11 page 4

Issue 27 page 8

Issue 10 page 16

Issue 36 page 22

Issue 10 page 19

Issue 13 page 16

Issue 18 page 8

Issue 16 page 8

Issue 15 page 12

Issue 21 page 17

Tune Sheets: Agents part 3

Tune Sheets: From Mermod Frères Serial No. 45311, circa 1890

Tune Sheets: HAV Bulleid and Cuendet

Tune Sheets: La Cracovienne

Tune Sheets: Nicole Tune Sheet for 36261

Tune Sheets: Paillard, as seen on TV

Tune Sheets: Restoration Repairing a Tune Sheet

Tune Sheets: Tuning up on Musical Box Tune Sheets

Issue 42 page 26

Issue 11 page 8

Issue 12 page 14

Issue 37 page 4

Issue 04 page 23

Issue 23 page 4

Issue 02 page 21

Issue 31 page 3

Supplements to the Cylinder Musical Box Tune Sheets, Makers, Agents & Dates

1st Supplement

2nd Supplement

3rd Supplement

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Issue 32 page 12

Issue 36 page 10

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