•I'm looking for an Ampico Marque player action, ideally for a Chickering, but I'm not all that picky at this point. I need everything, upper and lower, but would be thrilled to death with any parts and pieces. Tim Mattice

•In MMD 981026 Bob Conant writes about the Ampico Marque. I'm also just about to embark on restoring one which is complete but in pieces. I need help! I'm in Manchester UK. I've done the case and piano action which are now superb. David Chalkin

•Needed for Ampico and Amphion uprights: * Take up spools for an Ampico and also Amphion 88-note upright player actions. * Tempo speed setting selector plate for Amphion spool box * Push buttons and springs for soft pedal and sustaining pedal control that are on the key slip. * Wood handle that is o...

•Needed for Ampico and Amphion uprights: * Take up spools for an Ampico and also Amphion 88-note upright player actions. * Tempo speed setting selector plate for Amphion spool box * Push buttons and springs for soft pedal and sustaining pedal control that are on the key slip. Ampico model A expressi...

•Seems to me that certain names for players attract instant response by those offended by them. I cannot understand the reaction; why is it such a big issue that it continually appears in the MMD? Just about everyone here in Australia calls all player pianos "pianolas", regardless of which maker mad...

•FS: Marque Foot-Pedal Ampico Marshall & Wendell Upright, full expression, very rare. Great original condition with amazing sound, and very reasonable price. Contact Mike Kukral Terre Haute, Indiana

•Re Michael Woolf's query: Haines made a pedal electric Ampico (called a Triano here in Australia), as Marque was the pedal-only style. The pedal-only Marque has not got the full Ampico workings in it, and the Triano is not supposed to have them all either, but has more than the pedal-only. So Micha...

John Phillips said: > Thomas Henden asks if there are any modern companies that cut > Themodist rolls. There are at least two in the U.K., Thomas: > Southport Music Rolls and Perforetur Rolls. The latter company > even put a Metrostyle line on the rolls I bought from them. > These rolls are not chea...

[ Editor's Note: [ [ The following is an article written by Craig Brougher which [ addresses some misconceptions about the Ampico A and B [ expression systems. Robbie did the editing, with input [ from Craig and Terry Smythe. There are 4 drawings which [ are available as a suppliment to this article...

•-- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD -- Dear Mr. Herr, Thank you for your prompt reply. You have my permission to submit the list to MMD. The push-ups are 65 note. In all my years of player rebuilding I have only come across one Welte reproducer push-up. I love the old pneumatic pla...

•Everyone who has responded to this question has answered the question of how it might be done, to my mind. But I would like to add a few other considerations. I am not exactly sure how high a pressure might be obtained by pumping the treadled Duo-Art, but I suspect it would have a maximum pressure ...

•Hello everyone! My research has confirmed that The Foster & Co. division of the American Piano Co. in East Rochester, N.Y., installed the Ampico action in their upright pianos on special order, but were not production items. There was the Stoddard, Marquee foot-pumped and full "A' versions of this ...

•I once looked at a Steinway Duo-Art on Central Park West in New York City: Louis XV case, in beautiful walnut; the serial numbers puts it at 1932. It had an Ampico drawer with a Duo-Art tracker and fan accordions. It seems to me that, rather than produce extended case pianos that can only be used f...

Now that the work of getting this mailing list started is settling down, I thought I'd write a short message about what I'm doing and what my interests are. The "day job" is doing customer service (and some software development) for a company that manufactures large Unix boxes. We sell these as comp...

Hello, I seem to be getting so much mail, that my time is used up before I read it all. I am on a very small fidonet, and it has been down more often than I care to say. For the time being, is it possible to send me mail related to reproducing pianos only? Also, I'd like to place an advertisement fo...

•Wanted for Regina Hexaphone: "Regina Hexaphone" sign that fits into the marque coin box cover. Thanks for your help. Dave Ogden

Daniel Wilson wrote in MMD 970115: > What intrigues me is that a Weber piano should have this label, > because "Solodant" was the system used by the rivals to Aeolian Co. > who owned the Weber marque. The Canadian Weber referenced above was built in Kingston, Ontario. It is very likely that this pia...

Al Menashe mentioned a player piano-phonograph combination he saw at auction in Portland in which the phonograph was wound by treadling the piano. Karl Ellison suggested that it might have been the "Standard" Playerpiano Phonograph as described in the reprinted advertisement in the 2nd edition of Ha...

Philippe - C'est bien avec moi is vous envoyiez des messages au MMD en francais. Il y a des souscripteurs qui connaissez d'autres langues. Je voudrais la practice d'ecrire en francais. Probablement, vous pouvez realiser que j'en ai besoin! J'ai une question pour vous. Quels sont les mots en francais...

Terry Macham wrote in Digest 970113: > I ran across a Weber (Canadian) player piano the other day. There > is a lever located to the right of the tracker bar labeled "Solodant." > What is the function of this control? "Solodant" means the same as "Themodist" -- it's the system that employs the littl...