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NAMIR Sweatshirts Available
Repair Vacancy in New Zealand
2008 Spring Meeting
Visit to The Mechanical Music Museum
Visit to Antwerp
Report on 2007 AGM held on Sunday October 28th
at Yamaha in Milton Keynes
The Complete Woodwind Repair Manual
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NAMIR Sweatshirts Available
Navy sweatshirts are now available embroidered with the NAMIR logo in men’s sizes medium, large and extra large.
The cost is £10 each plus a postage charge of £2.50. Two sweatshirts for £22.50.
Cheques payable to NAMIR.
Our supplier can also embroider polo shirts, T shirts, aprons, fleeces or jackets on request. Ladies sizes can also be supplied. Please e-mail Judy Hinton at judyhinton@ntlworld.com for further details.
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2008 Spring
Meeting
The Spring meeting was held on Sunday 11th May 2008 at the Moulsford Pavilion
and was attended by around 30 people. There will be a report in the next issue of the Intrepid Repairer.
Keith Graves demonstrating the preparation of a casting to which the front or back of a violin can be clamped. This allows fine repair work to be done. |
Chris Mc Neilly demonstrating one of his Hurdy Gurdys - which he makes himself. |
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Repair Vacancy in New Zealand
Vacancy for a full time wind and brass repair technician in New Zealand.
KBB Music is New Zealand's largest retailer in Brass and Wind Instruments.
We have a full time vacancy for an experienced Brass & Wind Repair Technician to join our 2 repair techs in our busy repair shop.
The ideal candidate will need to be professionally trained and qualified with a minimum of 3 years full time experience.
We service instruments for students through to professionals throughout New Zealand in our well equipped workshop.
We pride ourselves on our high standards so we need someone who shares a passion for excellence and is able to work with minimal supervision.
We are based in beautiful Auckland which is the largest city in the North Island.
If you are interested in the position please forward your C.V. to repairs@kbbmusic.co.nz
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The Mechanical Music Museum
Sunday September 28th, 2008 at 2.30pm.
David Ivory, professional member of NAMIR and resident organist at the Mechanical Music Museum in Cotton, Suffolk, will show us the Wurlitzer Organ on Sunday September 28th. The Museum is in the village of Cotton, just off the B1113, 6 miles north of Stowmarket. David will be playing the Wurlitzer and will explain the ‘works’ to us and let us see areas of the museum not usually available to the public.
More details of this trip from Ted Morse nearer the time.
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Vist to Antwerp
Tuesday July 1st 2008
As part of Ted Morse's events programme for NAMIR a
visit has been arranged to Decap, a firm in Antwerp (Belgium) that makes and repairs large mechanical organs.
Members who attended the AGM at the St Albans Organ Theatre will
remember the large organs there operated by cardboard roll.
The visit will take place on the morning of Tuesday July 1st
which will mean that we travel to Antwerp on Monday June 30th and return home
during the evening of July 1st after the visit - although of course members may
extend their stay if they wish.
Those in the South East can travel by the 1pm Eurostar from St
Pancras on June 30th and with a change in Brussels arrive in Antwerp by 5.30pm.
Travel back would bring us to St Pancras by 8pm on July 1st.
Anyone nearer the Kent coast could consider driving but those
further away should consider flying to Brussels. One night in a hotel will be
required in Antwerp.
When we know numbers wishing to attend, we can arrange or recommend
travel and hotel bookings.
The visit will be restricted in numbers - would anyone who may be
interested in attending contact Ted Morse on 01491 651509 or email
ewmorse@clara.co.uk.
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2007 AGM
The 2007 AGM was held on Sunday October 28th at the
Yamaha building in Milton Keynes and was attended by over 30 members.
The business meeting took place in the morning at which the Chairman
and other officers gave their reports. The Treasurer (Diana
Lawson) said that there had been a surplus of just over £1500 during
the 2006/7 financial year and that subscription income had increased
by £328 compared with the previous year. The new committee are
shown on the Members Area page on this website. The main
change is that Alex Preston has joined the Committee to become
Website coordinator and David Hinton is now an Ordinary Committee
member. Philip Bridle stood down from the committee.
After lunch, Yamaha staff Stephen Adcock and Charles
Bozon gave us a description of
the Yamaha Technicians Guild and showed us the Manuals developed for
the Courses. These one and two day courses so far have been
directed towards instrument repair technicians associated with the
larger dealers but they may become available to others in the future. Yamaha said that it may be possible to provide NAMIR members with
more information on spares.
Yamaha made us very welcome and were thanked by the
Chairman for hosting our meeting.
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The Complete Woodwind Repair Manual
Reg
Thorp's book is now only available in the UK from Chamberlain Music,
Weyhill, Haslemere Surrey GU27 1HN
www.chamberlainmusic.com
The
price is £45 but NAMIR members can have a £5 discount on quoting
their membership number.
Outside
the UK it is also available from NAPBIRT
www.napbirt.org
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