•Dear Sirs, I have followed with mild interest the recent thread concerning the pedal-electric Marque Ampico. I happen to own such a piano, which I am led to believe is now the only example here in the UK, as the unrestored instrument to which Julian Dyer made reference in his own recent posting on ...

•Extending the Marque Ampico player sale! Hello player enthusiasts! I just found out that I need hip replacements and one very soon before it is too late (due to my age) so I am offering the Ampico upright through February 5th at the same $600 price. (I am clearing out my roll storage building in or...

•Hello, player fans -- My pending hip transplant and preparing the house for a visiting therapist sidetracked my Ampico piano sale activity. My apologies to the group of people waiting for a reply. I will get to the messages in a day or two. I am extending this sale to the end of February due to my ...

G'day digesters(?), I would love to tell you that we have mountains of kangaroo pouch leather here (which, BTW, doesn't come from the kangaroo's pouch!), but it seems that we can't get it either! I have a colleague who restores theatre organs and has been trying to get some without success. He think...

•Hi everyone -- Some years ago I got an upright foot-pumped Marque Ampico "semi-reproducing" piano and am about to complete the restoration of it. The only problem is I don't know how the tubing from the expression units is supposed to be connected, since nothing is labeled or connected currently. D...

•Hello everyone -- I am currently working on a Marque Ampico. The lower unit was manufactured by Amphion. The cast iron pieces that support the foot pumping pedals to the lower bellow mechanism are broken on both sides. The brackets are approximately 22 inches tall. If anyone has a pair that they th...

•Hello MMD readers, Just purchased a 1926 Brewster Marque Ampico upright, and hope to transport it back to Maine in August, using my Haulmark piano trailer. See this URL for the rig, which has an illustration of our 1929 Story & Clark on the remote control electric winch: http://www.wiscasset.net/ar...

•I would like to thank everyone who helped me get the info to finish my Marque Ampico which is now working superbly. However I only have four rolls! Can anyone, especially in the UK, sell me rolls. Please email me or call me on 0161 737 0111 daytimes or fax me on 0161 737 0555. Thanks again. David C...

•What Bernt Damm describes (MMD 20.10.25) is a Marque Ampico, a foot-operated Ampico, a standard model. They had simplified expression systems, having intensities but not crescendos because the operator was supposed to provide that by their pedalling. That's a well-known thing. But less well known i...

In a message dated 96-05-24 02:58:57 EDT, Bryan Cather writes: > I rather like the idea of an > Ampico pumper, as I like to "interpret" rolls, and am sure a Marque > Ampico would sound better than a straight pumper (or even a Themodist > piano), and, at least around here, Ampico rolls are more commo...

•Stephen Powell asks about a set of Ampico A expression units [190520 MMDigest]. I have a set of intensity controllers from a complete Franklin upright foot-pumped Marque Ampico. These are unrestored but there is no crescendo system with this design. I am not sure if there is the re-regulator pneuma...

Bing Gibbs wrote: > Other than the fact that maybe it's rare, is there any advantage > to having a foot pumper reproducing player? I have a foot pumped Ampico as well as an electric Ampico grand. I find the foot pumped Ampico (The Marque Ampico) to be a lot of fun because there are many times that I...

•Reproducing pianos are kind of scarce in this part of the world. Can anyone help me with information about this one: Haines Upright Ampico, ser. no. 75893. In spoolbox: Ampico on/off, Repeat on/off, Pressure Low/Medium/High, Tempo Indicator, Play/Reroll. In keyslip: Loud/Soft Bass, Loud/Soft Treble...

•Hello all. Well, 'hats off' to Julian Dyer! I never cease to be amazed by the knowledge that turns up in this digest. It seems that every few days I learn something I didn't know -- which makes me feel a bit inferior since I have not considered myself to be at all ignorant about player and reproduc...

•Hello MMD readers, Just read a posting about the Baby Ampico, promoted with the A-type of Amphion action, from 1927 to approximately 1931, and perhaps a bit later, depending upon the factory inventory. These were very popular in Maine summer camps and seaside cottages, many still on location when w...

•Hello all, Regarding the explanation by Bob Conant (MMD 170813), is the Marque Ampico inferior in any way (apart from lack of a motor) to the ordinary powered model A Ampico? Is an upright Ampico inferior to a grand Ampico? Kind regards, Geoff Ward

•Hi all, Just a thought concerning the upright Marshall & Wendell Pedal-Electric Ampico; perhaps the pedals were included to compensate for the fact that there were no crescendo pneumatics in this mechanism. This would presume that the pianolist knew the capabilities of the Ampico A system and that ...

Please add me to your list. My address is BSnakeC@AOL.com [ Editor's Note: Done. I also need some advice, and hope I can get some help. [ Editor's Note: I submit the following to the group for advice. I have always wanted a player piano, and about 10 years ago bought for $200.00 an unrestored Broadw...

•Jim Edwards was asking whether the Boesendorfer used in a TV programme on Rachmaninoff was a proper Ampico. The brief answer is yes, as Dan Wilson said yesterday. Until recently I couldn't have given you much more information than this. However, when loaned a pile of papers recently, there was quit...

•In "Enigmatic Pneumatics On Some Ampico A Actions", MMD 02.07.09, D.L. Bullock writes: > I have two Ampicos with a 1" x 1" pneumatic mounted on the top side > of the so-called spring pneumatic attached to the main expression > valve. I need to know what they connect to since the tubing > was toast ...