In a 1969 interview of Adam Carroll by Nelson Barden, Barden asked
about Carroll's recollections of other Ampico artists.  Here's what
Carroll said about Vincent Lopez:

  Barden:  Could he play well?

  Carroll: I knew him quite well.  He was not a pianist.  He was an
  arpeggio man.  In other words, he had a trick -- played with his
  right hand.  Left hand, nothing.  He'd have the orchestra play
  softly.  Once he came to do a recording.  You know what happened?
  He brought the band with him (laughter).  Actually he couldn't
  record the rolls.  I made his rolls, Fairchild made them.  He was
  embarrassed one time up in Boston when someone asked him to auto-
  graph one of his rolls.  A little child, eight years old said,
  "Mr. Lopez, now please play the song."  A dame once said to me,
  "Lopez couldn't even play with his *****," (laughter).

from "The Ampico Reproducing Piano - Edited by Richard J. Howe and
published by the Musical Box Society International, November 1987.

Ed Sprankle