•If you need rubber parts and you can make a simple mold, you can make your own parts. Just get a small kit of RTV [Room Temperature Vulcanizing] materials, mix, and pour it into the mold. The next day you pop out the part and do another. If you're in a hurry, you can use dental materials. They set ...

•Hi Group, Duaine Hechler asked about the Ampico Version Of Duo-Art Bach Roll "Toccata & Fugue in D Minor." It is Ampico roll number 40103 "Toccata & Fugue in D Minor," J. Bach, arranged by Tausig, played by Ignaz Friedman. Reproduced from the Duo-Art for the Ampico by William Flynt. The roll bears ...

•Greetings, I have started on the scanning of Ampico rolls. Many of them are in less than perfect condition. It would be convenient to automatically remove the holes that are found on the edges, but Ampico B rolls have one extra track on each side. I would like to automatically remove garbage in the...

•Spencer Chase asked about Ampico A/B numbers in the 05.05.06 MMDigest. Since no one else has answered yet, I will try. Bob Taylor, in a talk at an AMICA convention in 1997 said the first B rolls were nos. 68361 and 209161. I don't disagree with that but I think the shift from A to B coding was a li...

•Hi friends, Spencer Chase had requested information about the number sequence of Ampico rolls where the 0-T and 0-B holes were used. It's not easy to answer that one. For the popular series, roll 209433, "Did You Mean It," seems to be close to the first popular B roll that uses the 0-T perforation ...

•My Ampico B has an annoying problem. When I reroll, it seems to lock up and won't let go. I have to turn the power off and then reroll by hand. This happens on rolls of any length. Helpful suggestions would be appreciated. Stephen Small

•Stephen Small requested help for his Ampico B rewind problem. In his post there is not sufficient information to make a response that is certain to be correct, but I will offer this anyway. On top of the electric drive motor is a pallet valve that closes as the flat spot in the cam rotates under th...

•I have just found one of the series of five rolls issued by Ampico titled "Theory of Music". The one I have is "Ear Training". I have scanned it and will be recutting it on paper as well as making MIDI files with lyrics for all to enjoy. Tim Baxter has offered to do the recutting on paper with text...

•[ ... Angelico Valerio recalled working in the Ampico research [ laboratory on the tenth floor of the Chickering Building on 57th [ St., above several floors of piano sales rooms. He said the [ Knabe Building was at 584 Fifth Ave., at 47th St. -- Robbie And the big red chimney in East Rochester, Ne...

•And you can even see the Ampico `stack at http://mmd.foxtail.com/Pictures/ampstack.html Rick Inzero

•Dear MMDers, I have two Ampico 1929 Christmas Rolls: the labels and the rolls are identical, only the box is different. One is in the common Ampico Christmas box and the other is in a box with a black background and a large floral pattern. Does anyone know the story about why there are two differen...

•Last night I was playing an old Ampico Christmas roll, no. 4760, "Merry Christmas 1923". The titles on the roll label: 1. Adeste Fideles 2. O Holy Night 3. O Tannenbaum Number 2 is not "O Holy Night", it is "Silent Night". This reminds me of a humorous story. When I was about six years old, my moth...

•Dear AMICAns among the MMDers, Look on the front cover of the latest AMICA Bulletin, September/October 2005, which features a beautiful Duo-Art baby grand piano. Is that an Ampico roll in the drawer? Pat DeWitt, Fort Wayne

•> Look on the front cover of the latest AMICA Bulletin, > September/October 2005, which features a beautiful Duo-Art > baby grand piano. Is that an Ampico roll in the drawer? The piano pictured is mine, the roll is a late Duo-Art roll. The piano has the later fan-system Duo-Art mechanism in it. The...

•Paul DeWitt writes, "Is that an Ampico roll in the [Duo-Art] drawer?" Paul, if you look inside the back cover of the same magazine, you will see that AMICA offers several Ampico and Duo-Art roll leaders for sale. The most common Ampico leader was also used on some Duo-Art rolls after the merger of ...

•A friend of mine who just fully restored a Steinway Duo-Art has the original correspondence concerning the purchase of this Steinway. It was bought used in 1942 or '43. This family could have well afforded a new Steinway but, evidently, it was not possible to purchase a brand new one. The correspon...

•Hey Gang: I have been working on my 1925 5'8" Mason & Hamlin RA Ampico piano. The piano has been restrung with a new pin block and has been refinished. The piano has a perfect soundboard and nice tight bridges. Everything has been done except to re-install the pump and tube it all up. I made a seri...

•One evening recently we were watching a flick, "Get Your Stuff" (Cameron Watson and Anthony Meindl), and behind the actors I saw a set of art-case double legs. I woke up! I watched more closely. A later shot showed quite a nice art-case, and even later a clip of the roll going by in the drawer -- o...

•The patented Centripetal Tension Resonator in Mason & Hamlin grands was intended to preserve the crown of the soundboard in a new instrument and raise it, if necessary, after the piano had settled following several changes of season. It's probably best to leave it alone except in the course of doin...

•I dug up some more information concerning the Centripetal Tension Resonator in Mason & Hamlin grands. This comes from Alfred Dolge's book, "Pianos and their Makers", published in 1911 by Covina Publishing Co., Covina, California, pages 109-111. The "Tension Resonator for Pianos" was invented by Ric...