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FAQ 4a. Mah-Jongg Links
Know of other links which should be included?
Check FAQ 4b to see if they're listed there, and if not please email the Webmaster.
Lessons & Teachers
| State | City/Area | Type of M.J. | Name | Email and/or phone | Website |
| CA | Los Angeles | American, Chinese Official, Chinese Classical, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Japanese, Western, & others | Tom Sloper |  |
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| CA | San Fernando Valley | American | Judi Nachenberg | jnachenberg@rocketmail.com | Click! |
| CA | Los Angeles (Univ. of Judaism, Bel Air) | American | Elaine Sandberg | elasan@msn.com | Click! |
| CA | L.A. & S.F. Valley | American | Joyce McShane | iamjoyoous@ca.rr.com | (none) |
| CA | L.A. (Studio City) | American | Doris Borenstein | D4517@webtv.net | (none) |
| CO | Thornton (north Denver) | Chinese Classical | Kathy Limm | ashnewal@comcast.net | (none) |
| CT | Old Saybrook | Chinese Classical | Allison Friday | allisonfriday@msn.com | (none) |
| FL | Fort Myers | American | MariAnne Albano | Info@PurpleDragonMahJongg.com | Click! |
| FL | Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter and Tequesta | American | Anna Farina-Rosen | kmaindustriesinc@gate.net | Click! |
| IL | Chicago (Hyde Park) | American | Arlene Rubin | ArleneCRubin@aol.com | (none) |
| MI | Battle Creek | (not stated) | Judie Moore | onedot49015@sbcglobal.net | (none) | NY | Ithaca | American | Barbara Berger | Kiawahbarb8@aol.com | (none) |
| NY | LI, metropolitan NY | American | Ling Maris | mahjonglady@optonline.net or call 516 782 6621 | Click! |
| NY | Long Island | American | Alex Pollack | Call (631) 585-2832 | (none) |
| NY | NY (Upper Eastside) | American | Linda Feinstein | Visit my website: | ManhattanMahjonggClub.com |
| NY | NY | American | Linda Fisher | lfisher@stenospeed.com | Click! |
| TX | Dallas | American | Marlene Stern | mstern2307@comcast.net | (none) |
| VA | Lynchburg (Central VA, but will travel) | Shanghai, Hong Kong, American | Elise Dee Beraru | 434-851-4532, elise0511@comcast.net | (none) |
For tips on how to find teachers in your area, read FAQ 15.
Commercial Vendors and Suppliers
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Get your kicks from MAH JONGG?? Go to
http://www.kmaindustries.com/
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KMA Industries has mah-jongg tablecloths, polo shirts, t-shirts, chocolates, magic coffee mugs, and many more mah-jongg accessories! Even big-number tiles for the visually impaired.
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WhereTheWindsBlow.com has fine quality mah-jongg gifts, gold mah-jongg charms, nightlights, trinket boxes, and many more mah-jongg accessories!
A Maj Exchange Sponsor! |
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American Mah Jongg Association.
The alternative American Mah-Jongg organization has mah-jongg merchandise for sale.
8605 Snowreath Road
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Esdee and by HIS hand. - Mah-Jongg jewelry and more! |
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IN EUROPE... Daja Mahjong carries an extensive line of mah-jongg books and products. |
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Exclusively MahJongg is an extensive site of many types of new American and Chinese sets, accessories, jewelry, NMJL Standard Hands and Rules cards, and a great deal more. |
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Want your tiles engraved? See Ken Kaplan's engravings at www.arkayengravers.com/tiles/ |
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Another resource if you need tiles carved is Morley Graphics (dlgallo@verizon.net). Regular reader Gina says, "Dee has done an amazing job helping me to complete some of my sets by carving tiles from blanks."
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Check out Travel Wizard's Mah-Jongg Site for sets, accessories, and some lovely graphics! |
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The Mah Jongg Maven - The Largest Selection of Mah-Jongg Games, Gifts & Supplies Available. Online ordering available. FREE Color Catalog Available! |
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BTG Productions has produced an award-winning documentary about Mah-Jongg, entitled "Mah Jongg: The Tiles That Bind". You can find out more about this film and order it from the BTG Productions site. |
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The Mah Jongg Shop carries a variety of new American and Chinese sets, some accessories, and pictures from the Japanese Mah Jongg Museum. |
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Wing Hop Fung usually has Hong Kong mah-jongg sets, and sometimes Vietnamese sets for sale. Probably no American sets. Click here for the online store or click here for a map if you're in Los Angeles. |
MAH-JONGG ORGANIZATIONS in America
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American Mah Jongg Association.
The alternative American Mah-Jongg organization has a fun and different yearly card, a quarterly newsletter (which includes a column by Tom Sloper), a toll free number, and they accept credit cards too.
8605 Snowreath Road
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The WRIGHT-PATTERSON RULES are available only from the Wright Patterson Mah Jongg Group. This Western game is the one played by officers' wives on American military
bases all over the world; its has lots of fun special hands, and other specific
differences from other rules (see FAQ 2 and FAQ 3). If you play by the Wright-Patterson rules, no other book will
do!
Check out the Wright-Patterson OWC's great new website, at http://www.wrightpattersonowc.org/mahjongg.html.
Or write to:
Mah Jongg Book Sales
PO Box 1067
Fairborn, OH 45324
The North American Mahjong Federation was created in 2008. Join and participate in tournaments, both live and online.
Website: http://mahjongfederation.com/
For information about organizations in other countries, see FAQ 4b.
Tournaments & Cruises
Sign up now for seven days aboard the beautiful 5-star Holland America ship the ms Westerdam with acclaimed private instructor and founder of the Manhattan Mah Jongg Club, Linda Feinstein. Cruise round-trip from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to Grand Turk & Caicos Islands, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Philipsburg, St. Marteen, and Half Moon Cay, Bahamas. February 8-15, 2009.
http://www.manhattanmahjonggclub.com/mahjonggcruise.html
For a schedule of American-style Mah Jongg tournaments in the Los Angeles area, see Judi and Bill's Mah Jongg Fun website at http://www.geocities.com/jnachenberg.rm/index.html.
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American Mah Jongg Association.
The alternative American Mah-Jongg organization organizes mah-jongg cruises and mah-jongg camps.
8605 Snowreath Road
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For information on NMJL tournaments and cruises in San Diego and Southern California, visit the Travel Wizard site at http://www.travelwizardtravel.com/tourney.htm
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Not only tournaments, but a warm friendly environment where people have fun playing the game of Mah Jongg!! The Purple Dragon club is in Fort Myers, Florida. |
For information on weekly American-style tournaments in West Palm Beach, FL, contact Dorothy Kornheiser by email at bdko@webtv.net or call her at 561-689-8299.
For info on American-style tournaments in the Midwest, visit www.midwestmahjongg.com. Dawn promises you'll have a lot of fun and meet nice people who love to play mah-jongg.
See a calendar of international tournaments at
http://icalshare.com/article.php?story=20060218163914541.
The site of the Italian Mah jong Association (the first association in Italy to use the Official International Rules in tournaments) awaits with impatience your visit to: www.mah-jong.it!
For information about organizing your own tournament, read FAQ 21 here on this website.
Not a tournament but a club that gathers weekly in Fort Lauderdale: Harmony Mah Jongg Club's website is www.harmonymahjongg.com.
Computer Games -- Online and Offline
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For authentic Hong Kong style mah-jongg, try
Hong Kong Mahjong, the most exquisitely attractive mah-jongg software program of them all.
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For more mah-jongg software listings, see
FAQ #5. The games listed above and in FAQ 5 all embody the true four-player game of mah-jongg (these are not tile-matching games). For simpler "solitaire" (Tile-Matching) games played with mah-jongg tiles, see FAQ #12.
Other Excellent Mah-Jongg Sites
Jim May's wonderful Mah Jongg Cyber Museum is a great resource for all Mah-Jongg players. It has history, information, pictures of sets, information about sets (it's a treasure trove of information for folks researching their mah-jongg set), and lots of other great stuff. |
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CHarli's museum page is another great resource if you are looking for information about collectible mah-jongg sets. http://www.charli.org/Mah_Jong/Museum/welcome.htm.
And check Paul Jaeger's Mah Jong Library, too, if you're researching collectible mah-jongg sets.
http://www.jaegerstudio.com/mjlibrary.htm.
Visit Martin Rep's Mahjong NEWS, an impressive and comprehensive internet newspaper about all things mah-jongg. Keep up to date on mah-jongg happenings, software, and news. http://www.mahjongnews.com/.
Linda Fisher's site is the only site on the web that describes American-style mah-jongg as it is played today.
http://www.geocities.com/linfishr. AND see FAQ 19 for fine points of the American rules (and commonly misunderstood rules). AND every table should have a copy of the official rules booklet from the NMJL (see FAQ 3).
http://www.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/mj.htm is Gareth Saunders' site; includes valuable information on how to buy mah-jongg stuff in the United Kingdom, and lots more great information.
And just in case I haven't tooted my own horn enough...
For LOTS more mah-jongg website listings, see FAQ #4b.
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