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Wwwfiqw IGA owner admits hes hooked on player piaos By STEPHEN GAUER The Examiner When you walk into the IGA store behind City Hall you may notice an upright piano stan iing against one wall next to long stack of pop cans Its not an ordinary piano its player piano and its one of two onwed by Frank Macklem owner of the store and selfconfessed aficionado of player pianos Machlem loves to talk about player pianos Im really enthused about them he says just likethat type of music Macklem whos been around player pianos since he was child has become so expert at repairing them that hes often called in to restore an old in strument thats been neglected and no longer works Hes just finished overhauling piano owned by the Simcoe Rescue Squad Macklem even has space set aside in the store for small piano workshop He keeps his second piano there Tom Booth another player piano en thusiast drops by regularly to play or to help Macklem restore an instrument to playing condilt tion As Macklem explains the principle of the player piano is simple although the mechanism is complicated The player piano is simply regular piano with the player action ad ded VALVES Keys are struck on the piano by the movement of valves Suction created by pump nor mally keeps those valves closed they open when holes in paper roll pass over the 88 holes Frank Macklem theres no instrument like the player piano in the brass tracking bar the front of the piano The break in suction forces the valves to open which in turn causes notes to sound Its an intriguing mechanism to watch The amount of suction is so slight that you cant feel it when you pass finger over the 88 holes in the tracking bar yet its strong enough to convert the pattern of holes in roll of paper into music Two types of player pianos were made manual and elec tric Macklem prefers the elec tric models because as he puts it If theyre electrified peo ple will play them Too often he says player pianos were allowed to deteriorate because notebook monday Olhe regular monthly meeting of the Georgian Tollcge Amateur Radio Club will be held in the cafeteria of the cal legeat730pm OTottenham Lions Bingo at 730 pm in the Tottenham Community Centre $250 jackpot must go each week early birds sharethewealth rolling $200 jackpot consolation of $50 goes Bingo at pm at the Canadian Legion Branch 147 St Vincent Street and Cundles Road Barrie Jackpot $500 con soltion $100 OThe Simcoe County Chess Club meets from 630 to 10 pm in the Barrie Public Library New members are welcome OThe Childrens Annex of the Barrie Public Library holds French hour for preschoolers from to pm tuesday OEuchre at the Bell Ewart Community Centre at pm 5050 draw will also be held oThe GetTogether Club of Barrie will meet at 130 pm at the ANAF Club New members are welcome Blighty Bingo at the Wyevale range Centre at pm OThe Stroud Senior Citzens meet at 130 pm in the Stroud Complex OThe Belle Ewart Euchre Club plays at pm in the Belle Ewart Community Hall For more information call Dave Davidson at 4562357 OIhe Canadian Calorie Counters meet at pm at St Marys Separate School on Codrington Street For more in formation call Flo Houghton at 7260592 0A proschool story hour is held at the Childrens Annex of the Barrie Public Library from 10 to 11 am every Tues day and Wednesday No registration is required oThe Duplicate Bridge Club meets every Tuesday at pm at the YMYWCA Everyone is welcome For partners call 7374469 The Mello Blends practise every Tuesday at 730 pm at Oakley Park School Grove and Davidson Streets Women interested in joining the chorus are invited to attend wednesday otatholic Womens Thrift Shop at Canadian Forces Base burden is open from to 830 pm Location is Building P2 tlili ode between the chapels For further information i1t lt mot li Istltl new lwi mini liit lllti tli held tyciy Wednesday for TOPS Take Off nonprofit weightwatchers organiza Iltltl til toixlfcllow Public School in Hi tllHl iiitii iiiit Hill call Josie at 4363779 lltl liiic llilEItl oi tlic Socictx tor the Preservation owners tired of pumping pedals to create music Player pianos came into vogue in the late IRIXJs and early ltItlth before the advent of electricity musical instru ment that could play itself without power was vcry popular Electric models started to come onto the market about l922 Eight years later the depression caused drastic drop in demand for the instruments forcing player piano manufacturers out of business Macklcms pianos late from Itlll and Itiltt The Hill model is deluxe Ilaincs piano one of the better instruments of its Film agency wants use of Canadians MONTREAL itPi Foreign filmmakers shooting in this country should start using iiadian actors as first stcp in the creation of aiiadian star system says the anadian Film Development Corp FDCI We want anadian stars with their iiamcs up thcrc in lights for all the world to see Michael Icabc prcsidcnt of the fcdcral lilm agency said in statcmcnt Friday We want the same aura of glainor and excitement sur rounding thcir names and ca rccrs as is commonplace for in tcrnational stars To this end the CFIX now will insist in all its contracts with produccrs that principal Canadian actors be given equal scrccn credits and publicity prominence as forcign stars Its the only way to make sure that anadian actors can achieve star status that their names will be as casin rccog nizable at home and abroad as the foreign stars Mctabc said POLICY KNOKEI Thc FI has been criticized for helping finance highsbudgct international coyproduclions cntircly or partly filmed in Canada but starring mostly Anicrican and British actors time Its beautiful piano that Macklem feels is worth at least $3000 In IBII it sold for about $600 PIANO ROLLS Music for the instrument comes in the form of player piano rolls Most of the music is from another era the 19205 and 1930s Er but current music is available too Even Andy Gibb songs are available in roll form Disco on player piano Why not Macklcms favorites are piano players like Eats Waller and Scott Joplin lle has an ex tensive private collection of over 600 rolls of music Macklem is convinced that the player pianos will come back into fasion in big way Im 10 years ahead of my time he says lhcrell be big boom in player pianos Already there are electronic droprins available in the US Music styles change And its going to be the is to 45year old group that will get into player pianos Every so often thcrcs change in musical standards suggest that in 10 years well see just that kind of thing start up in playcr pianos And nothing would make Frank Macklem happier than scciiig player pianos return to the popularity they once cn joycd As he says lhcrcs no instrumcnt like it IMPEIIAI entertainment Editor Stephen Gauer7266537 Shaw Stratford display spirit of theatre festivals By JAMES NELSON The Canadian Press The Stratford and Niagara ontheLake summer theatre festivals devoted to the works of William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw now are in full swing and this year are coming closer to true festival spirit The Stratford Festival is giv ing its audiences wider view of Shakespeares classics than ever before and at Shaw the festival spirit has filled the old colonial village with theatrical fun from noon until midnight And those who belittle theatre as frill for the social elite should look around the streets of these two com munities to see what all the activity has meant in new and expanding business The festivals may be thought by some to be costly to the tax payers both federal and provincial But the subsidies paid to the Stratford and Shaw festivals are proportionately smaller to their box office and other income than the subsidies paid to the big professional performing arts companies operating mainly in the winter At Stratford this season Shakespeare is being played in three halls Er the 2200scat Ees tival Theatre the 1ltIrscat Avon Theatre and for the first time in the little 450ltseat Third Stage made over from an old Rejects movie role to do TV series LOS ANGELES AP Wayne Rogers the actor who left the hit television series MA SH without second thought has made another move some might question He has rejected movie role to star in new television miniseries turned down theatrical film to do this he says of Top of the Hill an Irwin Shaw story that will be shown as fourhour miniseries in early 1980 found this character more iii tcrcsting The theatrical film was huge monstrous picture but not long on character lle will star with Adrienne Barbeau Elke Sommcr Mel Ferrcr Sony Bono Gaiy Lock wood and Paula Prentiss big name cast made possible by the productions big budget And that is made possible by the somewhat revolutionary nature of pcration Prime Time coalition formed to buy original programming for independent stations Individually the 93 or so sta tions belonging to OPT wouldnt have the financial muscle to buy the miniseries but collectively they can buy shows as expensive as those on the networks grim iiiEMA crate gin3443 but 38 212 or 333i TECHNICOLOR roofiIIost rox irw Javier umniim autumn SUPER SHORT FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY DISNEY 3m it lull ion Li Fourhour miniseries costs about $4 million This is Shaws first original story for television It was his Rich Man Poor Man that be came the first successful US miniseries on ABC television three years ago and set the trend in motion SCARIHII BY RISIS In Top of the Hill Rogers plays man so scarred by mid life crisis that he quits his job leaves his wife and flirts with death in fast cars and on the bobsled runs at the Olympic trials at Lake Placid The series will be shown at the timc of the Winter Olympics Hwy 2627 In of Ten Strip Lab in York cm STEAKS $1 750 lhlm MIDHURST MEAT MARKET sports arena Audiences are getting chalice to see Shakespeare pro ductions in three ways the big spectacles of Loves La bours Lost and Henry IV Parts and II at the Festival Theatre the almost antiseptic Richard II concentrating more on Shakespeares words than stage action and the intimate new Third Stage prtxluctioii of The Taming of The Shrcw where audiences sit almost within reaching distance of the performers REACH LLNIL ROWDS At Niagaraonthclakc with the opening July 12 of Village Wooing as its first venture into lunchtime theatre the Show Festival hopes to attract sonic of the many tourists who drive through town but dont want to stay for an evening perform ance or even for mat ince Tickets for the lunchtime performances are selling almost as well as for the big cvcning productions for which people tend to plan far in ad vance Stratfords The Taming of The Shrew is the latcst fcstival show to open and critics have viewed it favorably some evenenthusiastically calling it the best the festival has ever done at the Third stage This years Stratford Festival is distinguished onc espe cially with the triplecast cr sion of Richard II conccivcd by artistic director Robin Phillips and directed by Zoe taldwcll the 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