If you are interested in mechanical music and in the southeast US,
don't miss the mechanical music meeting in Titusville, Florida this
October 26-27-28, 2018.

The meeting is hosted by the southeast chapter of the MBSI and members
of AMICA, COAA, Antique Phonograph Society and Coin Operated Collectors
Association are invited to attend.  The variety of music, machines and
people will make for an outstanding weekend for all ages.  This is a
weekend meeting with lots of activities.

On Friday evening we will visit a local collection.  Here attendees
will see and hear instruments including a 27" Regina disk music box,
an exceptionally large segmented comb music box, a dozen other cylinder
music boxes, ranging in size from a small circa 1855 Paillard snuff box
to a later 19th century Paillard "sublime harmony" box with an 18 3/8"
cylinder, 6 disk music boxes, including an oak-cased 15 1/2" Regina with
matching stand that shipped during Regina's first month of production,
numerous clocks and Atwater Kent radios.

The antique phonographs include an Edison Amberola 1 A, a Victrola
Credenza, two Edison Diamond Disc phonographs including a Model A250,
Edison's first Disc model, a Pathe disc machine, Victor and Columbia
table top disc machines, and a variety of cylinder phonographs.

On Saturday morning there will be workshops at the hotel.  These include:

- "What to Look for When Buying or Selling a Music Box," a discussion by
Wayne Finger which includes some music boxes you can inspect yourself.
Can you find their flaws?

- "Music Box Maintenance You can do at Home," a discussion by Dan Wilson
of things you can do at home to keep your instrument playing well for
years to come.

- "Name That Tune," a discussion by Clay Witt regarding music box tune
identification, including an introduction to Denys Parsons book, The
Directory of Classical Themes.

After lunch we will have a swap meet, then a Children's Music Box
"Maker" Workshop.  This will be an intergenerational workshop where
you and your child assemble and decorate your own wind up music box.
This is open to all children attending the MBSI weekend with an
accompanying adult.

Saturday evening we will visit a second  collection.  This collection
includes large and small automatic musical instruments including Mills
Violano Virtuoso playing both paper rolls and custom MIDI arrangements,
a Railroad Station Box with bells and drum, a Regina 27" upright disc
music box, originally shipped to Wurlitzer, a Polyphon 21 5/8" upright
coin operated disc musical box with metal bar bells, a Popper Konzertist
orchestrion with moving shadow pictures, a Standard 88 note upright
piano, a Seeburg KT Special orchestrion, a Seeburg L coin piano, a
Mermod Frères Rechange Cylinder Music Box, as well as a Mills Automatic
Phonograph (Jukebox).

All meeting attendees must be members of the MBSI, AMICA, COAA, COCA or
APS (or their escorted guests).  A registration packet has already been
sent to all MBSI Southeast Chapter members.  If you are not currently an
MBSI member, but are friends with a member, they can provide to you the
registration form for you to register as their guest.  (Be sure to write
on the form, "Guest of John Smith".)

If you are a member of a closely related society (AMICA, COAA, COCA,
APS), request a registration packet by using the "contact us" tab at
the top of http://www.mbsise.org/  Please include your name and society
affiliation on the registration.

If you are interested in mechanical music, please join MBSI at
http://www.mbsise.org/  Membership is affordable.  After joining, use
the "contact us" tab to tell us and we will get you a registration
packet out right away.

Wayne Finger