The AMICA BULLETIN AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT COLLECTORS’ ASSOCIATION NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2001 VOLUME 38, NUMBER 6 11 Y()UR SIAJON T1CKJ;T 1 M ()JT R I; MAR KA 11 I; c: () N c: I; F-..T J (; F-..I I; J I N "IJT()RY OJ MlISH: / / You have heard great piano performances ... Jacobs Dond, Milton Delcamp-the swift and In a crowded concert hall, some world-famed rhythmic music of Broadway, played by such genius playing to llU::lhed hundreds. Waking the masters ofsyncopationas Lopez,Confrey,Carroll. most glorious of all instruments to glorious life. The Ampico is an integral part of the piano. Releasing, with incredible fingers, the floods of It reproduces through the piano itself-bring­ melody you have longed to hear-waited pa­ ing you the actual voice of the instrument in tiently to hear-traveled far, perhaps, to hear. its full beauty-permitting you to study closely Once there was no othcr way to hear great the method and tona of famous pianists-in­ piano music. 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