News & Events
Forthcoming Events
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PPG Annual General Meeting, Cambridge – 20/04/2024
To be held at the Downing Place United Reformed Church, CB2 3EL. Members not wishing, or able, to attend in person can take part via Zoom video conferencing. Entertainment will include a concert from James Eggleston’s Welte Vorsetzer. An evening meal will follow at Carluccio’s restaurant, 1 Fisher Square, Corn Exchange Street at 19:00. Please let the Secretary know by 30th March if you wish to join-in via Zoom, or 17th April if you wish to attend in person (please indicate if you wish to book for the evening meal).
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Social Meeting with Terry & Ursula Leonard, Bournemouth – 18/05/2024
Time to be confirmed. To book your place please login to the members’ area.
NWPPA AGM, Rempstone – 08/06/2024
PPG members are invited to attend the concert and social meeting following the NWPPA’s AGM at the home of Graham & Ruth Cantrill at 15:00. Amongst other instruments of interest, Graham has a Weber pedal/electric Duo-Art and a Marshall & Rose Angelus 65/88-note player piano. Please contact the NWPPA Secretary, Everson Whittle, for full details (found in the members’ area).
Social Meeting with Andrew Giller, Norfolk – 29/06/2024
A unique opportunity for members to hear Andrew’s extremely large (approx. 11’6”!) Challen grand played by push-ups. Details to follow by email.
Social Meeting with Steve & Julia Greatrex, Malmesbury – 13/07/2024
Time to be confirmed. To book your place please login to the members’ area.
Social Meeting with David Houlgate et al., Ditchling – 03/08/2024
Time to be confirmed. To book your place please login to the members’ area.
Social Meeting with Jim & Sally Spriggs, York – 19/10/2024
PPG members are warmly invited to attend the NWPPA social meeting commencing at 14:30. Jim & Sally have a very nice Weber Pianola and always manage to come up with an interesting and varied meeting! To book your place, please login to the members’ area.
Online Virtual Concert with Benjamin Ely – 23/11/2024
With space limitations precluding a physical social meeting, a house-concert has been arranged to be broadcast at 19:00. Check back here for full details.
2024 AGM & Concert
This year the PPG’s Annual General Meeting is being held at the Downing Place United Reformed Church, CB2 3EL. Members not wishing, or able, to attend in person can take part via Zoom video conferencing. Entertainment will include a concert from James Eggleston’s Welte Vorsetzer. An evening meal will follow at Carluccio’s restaurant, 1 Fisher […]
Online Bulletin Library – Now Live!
The PPG’s Bulletin library is now available to view online – right back to newsletter no. 1 in 1960! To access this resource simply login to the ‘Members’ Area’ with the details published in your most recent Bulletin. A searchable PDF index of all contents pages has been compiled by a dedicated group of volunteers […]
Florence Price’s Fantasie Nègre No. 1 Duo-Art Roll
Florence Price’s music was largely ignored during her lifetime but identified by Radio Three’s ‘Forgotten Female Composers’ initiative of 2017. Her works are now being increasingly performed and published, and their quality is attracting an ever-expanding audience. The North West Player Piano Association’s 50th Anniversary in 2022 was the impetus to produce a new Duo-Art […]
A catalogue of Meloto and Regent Dance Rolls
The Player Piano Group is pleased to announce that Julian Dyer’s complete catalogue of Meloto dance rolls has been published. This covers ‘popular’ piano rolls produced in Britain by the Aeolian Company – dance rolls of the 1920s & 30s, show and film tunes, light music and novelty piano of the 1930s – as well […]
PPG Special Commemorative Roll
The PPG is pleased to announce the release of a special 88 note (accented) roll, Chaminade’s Nocturne, Op. 165. First composed in 1924, this piece was presented and dedicated to London Duo-Art recording engineer Reginald Reynolds. Unfortunately it became the reason that the two never spoke again, as Reynolds had not noticed, or acknowledged, the […]
Free Membership For Students & Under 25’s
Announcing Free Membership For Students & Under 25’s The Player Piano Group is pleased to announce two new membership categories, one for Full-Time Students and the other for those aged under 25. Applications for these are now open. Membership is offered free of charge to those who: – Study a minimum of 12 hours per […]