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 reproducing pianos.

I would probably have gone to my grave not knowing that a pedal-electric
Ampico was indeed actively marketed in Great Britain.

I note that the price list from which Mr. Dyer quotes is dated 1927.
That would be quite late here in the US for a Marque Ampico.  For that
matter, it would be quite late for a pedal Duo-Art as well, although
there are some of that vintage which surface from time to time.

I wonder, is the Herbert Marshall Co. the same as made the "Sir Herbert
Marshall & Rose" pianos which have turned up here occasionally, usually
with an Angelus player action?

Once about every thousand years or so, there also surfaces here an
English "Hopkinson" piano fitted with the Ampico.  I wonder what the
connection was between the Marshall Co. and Paxton Piano Works/Rogers,
makers of the Hopkinson?

I know that there exist also Broadwood Ampico instruments.  Did
Marshall supply other makers with the Ampico action routinely?

Mr. Dyer says that the Marshall & Wendell was exported to Britain.  Was
the entire American Piano Co. line of Ampico equipped pianos marketed
there?  (Brewster,  Franklin, Foster, Haines Bros., Fischer, Marshall &
Wendell, Knabe, Chickering, Mason & Hamlin)

Dean Randall
on gradually warming Puget Sound
pianolists@earthlink.net

 [ Might the Marshall & Wendell name have been applied, under license,
 [ to the key cover of a British 'stencil' piano?   -- Robbie