CLPGS: Annual General Meeting Weekend. 7-9 October 2016

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CLPGS: Annual General Meeting Weekend. 7-9 October 2016

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The details have now been finalised for the 2016 City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society Ltd. AGM Weekend at the Abbey Hotel, Great Malvern Worcestershire UK.
I understand that the Hotel is now fully booked for accommmodation but day visitors are very welcome. The cost for a day visitor is £25.00 per day which includes admission to all the talks, morning and afternoon refreshments and a buffet/cavery lunch. Bookings for day visitors should be made with Dave Roberts on e-mail at: phonographs@btinternet.com
Great Malvern is a tourist area and there is plenty of alternative accommodation in the town or the surrounding villages

PROGRAMME FOR THE WEEKEND

FRIDAY 7TH OCTOBER
18:00 Wine Reception and welcome from the Chairman and President
Evening at leisure in the hotel or in Great Malvern

SATURDAY 8TH OCTOBER
10:00 "The Officer, The Artist and the Magician" - the story of a remarkable discovery presented by Paul Baker

11:00 Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 "The Life of Alan Blumlein From his Son's Perspective" presented by Simon Blumlein

13:00 Lunch

14:15 "Acoustic Orchestral Recording" - what modern recreations of the process can teach us about original recordings - presented by Duncan Miller

15:15 Coffee/Tea Break

15:45 "Girmac: A 1930s Glasgow Recording Company" - presented by Ken Jobling

19:30 Gala Dinner

21:30 (approx) "Sound oif the Tims" - presented by Peter Clinch

SUNDAY 9TH OCTOBER
10:00 Annual General Meeting (Admission is free and is open to all members)

10:30(approx) Coffee/Tea break

11:00 Auction

13:15 Lunch

15:00 "Hawiian Serenade" by the Hula Bluebirds. A professional band based in the London area

19:30 Dinner

After dinner relax in the hotel and play and listen to your own or others favourite records on the Society's "Expert" gramophone which will be on hand with a good supply of needles.

It's shaping up to be another great weekend and I hope to see many of ypou there.

Tim W-W

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Re: CLPGS: Annual General Meeting Weekend. 7-9 October 2016

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As always this will be the height of my gramophonic year. See you there.

Roger.

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Re: CLPGS: Annual General Meeting Weekend. 7-9 October 2016

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Not to be missed!

Keith

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MC'd for the first time by Keith Harrison following the very sad loss of Richard Taylor last year,I'm sure everyone who was there will agree that this was a quite exceptional weekend. There were four stunning speakers on Saturday during the day and a hugely entertaining after-dinner speaker in the evening.The auction on Sunday produced the usual crop of bargains but also some very high prices for the more desirable items. Sunday afternoon was rounded off by the professional band, The Hula Bluebirds who played just about every style of music imaginable and some that weren't, such as the Dambusters March played on a ukelele! It was also heartening to see so many first time attendees including some of our newest members.
I append a few pictures below to bring back memerories for those who were there and a flavour of the weekend for those who weren't.
At Friday's Wine Reception. President Christopher Proudfoot on the left, Chairman Keith Harrison on the right and Simon Blumlein in the centre
At Friday's Wine Reception. President Christopher Proudfoot on the left, Chairman Keith Harrison on the right and Simon Blumlein in the centre
Presentation by the President of the Frank Andrews Award for Original Research to Peter Adamson for his work, amongst others, on the Maiden Lane offices of the Gramophone Company
Presentation by the President of the Frank Andrews Award for Original Research to Peter Adamson for his work, amongst others, on the Maiden Lane offices of the Gramophone Company
Society's Bookshop
Society's Bookshop
Some of the Auction Lots
Some of the Auction Lots
Saturday's Gala Dinner. Listening to the after-dinner speaker
Saturday's Gala Dinner. Listening to the after-dinner speaker
Enjoying the After-Dinner speaker
Enjoying the After-Dinner speaker
The technology!
The technology!
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The Conference Room showing Auction Lots and the Society's "Expert" gramophone.
The Conference Room showing Auction Lots and the Society's "Expert" gramophone.

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If Keith was at all apprehensive about his first AGM in charge, he had no reason to be. The annual Malvern weekend gets better and better, and as Tim rightly says the standard of the presentations this year was simply superb. See you next year!

Roger.

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