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Ampico Modification?
By Pat Mullarky

Hello, all..

I have a 1934 Marshall & Wendall 4'10" "Baby B" Ampico.  It has a B Drawer,
Type 2 B stack, and a B pump...  everything else is A.

My question for the group:

The piano has only one Crescendo, tubed to the Treble side. This Crescendo
is tee'd to both Expressions. It was built this way, as I found no screw
holes where a second Crescendo would have/could have been mounted, and there
were no "tubing stains" on the Bass Crescendo tracker-bar tubes.

Would it be against the credo of restoration to add the second, Bass
Crescendo? I have a spare in my shop from a parted-out junked Ampico.

-Pat Mullarky-



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