•Hello, Read the postings about the pedal Ampico uprights in the newsletter today, and decided to add a few lines of my own. The Marque Ampico was _often_ made from leftover parts from other piano manufacturers, such as the Melville Clark style spring motor for the music roll transport system, and e...

•--- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD --- From: potash@volpe5.dot.gov (Michael Potash)(fwd) To: artcraft@wiscasset.net Subject: Re Marque-Ampico postscript Date: Wed, 01 Apr 98 14:12:00 EST Dear Douglas, You may post this for me in the MMD, or just pass it around as you wish: I have...

G'day, Thanks for the welcome and the comments re the Foster Marque AMPICO. Well at least I know mine wasn't an orphan! I do not have it any longer --- I exchanged it for an Alfa Romeo car, but that's another story!I was flying blind when I restored it about 15 years ago, but I still see it occasion...

•With reference to a (possibly) pedal-electric Marque-Ampico in the UK, Darrell Clarke wrote: > The Foster Marque Ampico was not equipped with crescendos and could > only approximate it using the fixed levels. I haven't analysed the > musical effect but I would guess the results would be similar to ...

•Okay Dean, I'll bite! You wrote, "There seem to have been at least 3 variations of mechanism used in the Marque-Ampico." I can't argue about that 'cos I haven't seen the others, although I wonder that they saw fit to use the term Marque for a full Ampico. But you also said: > Ampico rolls can be pl...

•Regarding the widespread comments about the Marque Ampico only occurring in the USA in foot-powered form, may I offer the following entry verbatim from an English catalogue. (Robbie, could you keep the original paragraph splits, please.) [ No problem.] "The Marque Ampico. "The foot power model of t...

•Greetings friends, Back in 1998 there were a number of MMD submissions on the Marque-Ampico. I have recently heard about a Marque-Ampico for sale in a Brewster Piano. I will probably be purchasing this instrument, but am curious to know if there is any record as to the years in which these foot pum...

> From: "Clarke, Darrell" > I have restored, to varying degrees, a number of player pianos, > including a Foster Marque AMPICO upright Clark, In 1990, at the AMICA Cleveland Convention Mart, I acquired what appeared then to be an unusual AMPICO expression unit and companion valve block. I have since...

•Marque with no acute accent originally meant, in French, a royal licence (for privateers, etc.) to attack a hostile state, and then a royal licence to do anything. From that it comes to mean, in English, a make or brand, and (Philippe may correct me) "marque'" (with e-acute accent) in French means ...

•Dean Randall wrote. > Back in the 70s, Ian McDonald wrote an article for the AMICA Bulletin > about a Franklin Marque-Ampico from about 1923 that had a very > differently arranged and constructed, but seemingly functionally > complete, Ampico mechanism. I can not remember much of the particular Mar...

•I'm looking for a set of Marque Ampico upright footpumps, reservoirs and or hardware. I'm not picky about the condition as long as there is enough left of the pumps and reservoirs to get the proper dimensions and the hardware isn't broken. Tim Mattice

•Needed: Marque Ampico upright pedal-operated player piano service manual and tubing diagram -- any information on this Ampico player piano model. James Williams ampicojim@netscape.net.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

•Bryan Cobley wrote in MMD 981025: > Hello, I am e-mailing you from England for a friend who restores > player pianos. He has an old Ampico Marque and requires a wiring > diagram for the tubes etc. to make it work. I wonder if you or a > colleague can help at all or perhaps direct me to someone who ...

•For sale: a Marque Ampico -- an unusual pedal player. I had three electric Ampico expression players before I discovered the more "versatile" pedal operated model. The electric Ampico playing special rolls has three playing ranges, basically. The Marque Ampico has five ranges plus three soft pedals...

•Our pedal Ampico expression player ("reproducing" piano) is equally good as a responsive 88-note player. Not all of the Marque series was; they performed expression rolls very well but were often slushy on regular rolls due to large exhausters and design differences. By the late '20s the Marque ser...

In a message dated 96-05-10 02:47:10 EDT, Darrell Clarke writes: > > I have restored, to varying degrees, a number of player pianos, > including a Foster Marque AMPICO upright Darrell, Tell me about your Foster Marque AMPICO. I have a Foster Marque AMPICO also, made in 1924 according to the serial n...

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 ...

For Sale: Franklin Marque Ampico Upright. I just got my dream of an Ampico B grand and my wife says that the upright has to go. This piano has been extensively updated and restored and works very well. It is a rare Ampico that is a pedal pumper, but I have added full crescendos and a connection for ...

I was just reading the ad for the Marque Ampico upright and noticed that the fellow described having installed a full set of crescendos in the piano. I have a foot-pump Marshall & Wendell Marque Ampico and have always thought the system was complete (minus the modifying levers on electric versions)...

Benjy Templeton was wondering if the Marque Ampico was missing its crescendos. No, actually the Marque was designed as the foot pump version of an Ampico, and while it was able to produce, probably 20" vacuum, due to a small treadle bellows and long lever for power it could never produce continually...