Welcome to the pages of Australia's only active mechanical organ group. Our members come from all states of Australia and New Zealand. Most of our members own mechanical organs of various sizes from the smallest busker organs to larger portables and mighty stationary instruments. Some organs owned by AMOS members are historic, while others are new and many have been built by the owners themselves.
Useful links are FOPS (Fair Organ Preservation Society) in the United Kingdom and MMD (Mechanical Music Digest) and MBSI (Musical Box Society International) in the USA, in France Musica Mecanica and in Belgium MechaMusica. These sites have links to just about every group in the world which is interested in mechanical music and particularly organ music. Organ makers, restorers and museums are represented in the links. Links to Australian sites such as mechanical music, steam and restoration sites will be added and readers are asked to submit links of interest.
A sample copy of the AMOS quarterly newsletter 'The Wind Chest' is available for download.You will need Adobe Acrobat reader v 4 or later to view and print the newsletter. This software utility could already be installed on your computer. After the download, click on the Acrobat icon and you will be able to read the newsletter. The newsletter in its form as a pdf document [portable document format] can be printed.
- June 2007
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We are pleased that the Wind Chest has been read by so many people in many countries. We are delighted to welcome readers from Australia and New Zealand who have joined AMOS.
A printable pdf of the 2008-2009 membership form is available from the link below. Public liability insurance is compulsory only for Australian-resident members or overseas members who attend an AMOS rally and operate an organ. Membership fees from July to June are $30 Aus for a full member and $17 Aus for an associate member living at the same address as the full member. And better yet, there is no increase for the current AMOS year!
COMING EVENT: The next Australian mechanical organ rally venue is planned for Bathurst just over the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, NSW, from 17 to 19 October 2009. Rally centre is The Gold Panner Motor Inn, 260 Sydney Road, Kelso, Bathurst NSW 2795 (located just before you enter Bathurst from Sydney, Eastern side). Tel: 02 6331 4444, Fax: 02 6331 4270. There will be a welcoming BBQ on the Friday evening (16 October), the small organs will be playing
throughout Bathurst and the larger ones in the model train park on the Saturday and Sunday.
Details will be available with the motel reception.
LINK to Ian Postelthwaite gallery of overseas-based organs in several UK locations.
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