Re: Foster Marque Ampico Upright
By John Phillips
Hi everybody. In the Digest of November 9th, Bob Conant reports on his odd duck of a Foster Marque Ampico upright. Well here in far-flung Tasmania, Bob, I have another one. It is unrestored and sits patiently waiting for me to start on it, at a time that steadily advances into the future. The piano isn't totally unused however, as I have my 65n push-up um, er, well, pushed up to it. The Foster player action does indeed have a transposing tracker bar. An adjusting handle on the left-hand side of the tracker bar has five possible positions, the centre one, presumably, being for no key shift and for Ampico playing. I tried moving it last night and it moved very stiffly. This was probably because of ancient tracker tubing.
Since it was Bob that replied to my query of about a month ago on how to reassemble an Amphion transmission frame, I'll report here that we followed Bob's advice and it worked very well. The owner of the player came into my work a week or so ago and I took him down to our workshop. (I work in a university physics dept., which is very handy at times.) Within a minute or so we had pressed the offending brass pinion gear off its shaft, put the shaft in the new transmission frame and pressed the gear back on again. Exit one happy player owner.
John Phillips.
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