News & Events
Forthcoming Events
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Social Meeting with Nicholas & Eileen Simons, Derby – 26/04/2025
A joint meeting with the NWPPA and MBSGB, 11am to 4pm, with a buffet lunch provided. To book your place, please login to the members’ area.
PPG AGM, Concert & Weekend Away, Rye – 17/05/2025 – 18/05/2025
The 2025 PPG AGM will be held in Rye, East Sussex, and a Weekend Away has been arranged around the meeting. Accommodation can be found via TripAdvisor, which has a good variety of local places to stay. AGM nominations and resolutions must be received by the Secretary by 23rd April. Full AGM documentation will be available online from 25th April.
Saturday 17th May
12:00 – Rye Heritage Centre (TN31 7AY)
13:30 – Rye Town Hall (TN31 7LA)
14:30 – AGM in the Town Hall
17:00 – PPG Concert of Pianola and/or Reproducing Piano music
19:30 – PPG Dinner at The Mermaid Hotel (TN31 7EY)
Sunday 18th May
Morning, activity suggestions include:
- K&ES Railway, Tenterden (TN30 6HE): the Railway is having its annual 1940s weekend. Steam Trains to Bodiam, just a short walk to Bodiam Castle.
- Ellen Terry’s House, Smallhythe, Tenterden, TN30 7NG nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/smallhythe-place
- Chapel Down Vineyard, Smallhythe, Tenterden, TN30 7NG chapeldown.com
14:00 – Social Meeting with Jack Henley, Park House, Marden TN12 9LG.
Evening – Rye, informal dinner if required, venue to be decided.
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Social Meeting with Geoff Hobson, Wakefield – 17/05/2025
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NWPPA AGM & Social Meeting, Loughborough – 07/06/2025
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Social Meeting with Richard Cole & Owen Cooper, West Wickham – 21/06/2025
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Social Meeting with Terry & Ursula Leonard, Bournemouth – 12/07/2025
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Social Meeting with David Thorp, Ashbourne – 26/07/2025
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Social Meeting with David Houlgate, Ditchling – 02/08/2025
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Social Meeting with Steve & Julia Greatrex, Malmesbury – 06/09/2025
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Social Meeting with Philip Burgess, Denton – 11/10/2025
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2024 AGM & Concert
In 2024, the PPG’s Annual General Meeting was held at Downing Place United Reformed Church, CB2 3EL; a concert from James Eggleston’s Welte Vorsetzer followed. As well as a live stream, Julian Dyer kindly recorded selected works from the programme, which we are pleased to share below:
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 […]