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Ampico B Plays Too Softly
By Don Teach

To the technician working on a Marshall and Wendell Ampico, these
instruments actually came several versions.  Most did not have what we
refer to as full B hence the span of the pneumatic is not adjustable.

Most had the expression system away from the stack, not part of the
stack.  I say most as I have only heard of one Marshall with the note
compensation pneumatics.

The B usually does not play louder than an A on loud passages in the
music but it also does not play the softest passages softer.

Don Teach
Shreveport, Louisiana


(Message sent Thu 1 Nov 2018, 04:48:45 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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