Ampico
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American Piano Company (Ampico) was an American piano manufacturer formed in 1908 through the merger of Wm. Knabe & Co., Chickering & Sons, Marshall & Wendell, and Foster-Armstrong. They later purchased the Mason & Hamlin piano company as their flagship piano. In 1932, it was merged with the Aeolian Company to form Aeolian-American Co. Manufacturers of player pianos and reproducing pianos, for which the name Ampico was first coined. The Ampico reproducing system was first introduced in 1911, but fully reproducing from 1916.
Artists who recorded reproducing piano rolls for Ampico included Sergei Rachmaninov, Ferde Grofé, Leo Ornstein, Mischa Levitzki, Winifred MacBride, and Marguerite Volavy.