Here are some of the esoteric coin-op piano and orchestrion ads
I am seeking. Most are rather obscure, and some may have never
issued catalogs, but am giving it a college try!
Dave Bowers
- Ariston (any ads or flyers with pix)
- Armstrong (any ads)
- Automatic Musical Co. Binghamton, New York; Pictures of anything
except "Reliable" endless-roll piano and Automatic Xylophone.
- Berry-Wood, any early pix except endless roll (with mechanism behind
keyboard). I have the color catalog from circa 1912.
- Caille arcade machines, any pix of arcade with a coin piano visible.
- Carleton and Price & Teeple. Any cat or advert in _color._
- Chicago Electric. Any cat or advert in _color._
- Cote (Fall River, Mass.) Anything mentioning coin-op.
- Eberhardt (any ads or flyers with pix)
- Electra Film-Player, Columbus, Ohio
- Electratone / Waltham, anything mentioning coin-op.
- Electrova, Jacob Doll & Sons
- Fort Plain Electric Piano Co., anything mentioning coin-op.
- Harwood, Trademark owned by J.W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co. Kansas City
- Howard; Howard "A" roll pianos made by the Baldwin Piano Co.
- Jewett, anything mentioning coin-op.
- Johnson, E.P., E.P. Johnson Co. of Champaign, Illinois, anything
mentioning coin-op.
- Johnson, H.G., H.G. Johnson Quality Electric, anything mentioning
coin-op.
- Johnson, W.A., William A. Johnson Piano Co. of Champaign, Illinois,
anything mentioning coin-op.
- Kibbey, H.C. Anything pix
- Kreiter, anything mentioning coin-op.
- Le Roy, Le Roy Piano & Organ Co. of Sheboygan, Michigan; anything
mentioning coin-op.
- Lehr; anything mentioning coin-op.
- Link; Info about Style O, any early styles except Style R and those
illustrated in Player Piano Treasury.
- Louisville Organ and Orchestrion Co.
- Lyon & Healy; anything with Empress Electric, Majestic, etc.
- Marquette Piano Co., Style M3 photoplayer
- Mills; any ads or sheets in color showing instruments except Double
Mills (I have). Any arcade pix with an obvious piano.
- Monarch Musical Instrument Company, Tonawanda, New York
- Monarch Piano Company of Chicago; anything mentioning coin-op.
- National Automatic Music Co. / National Piano Manufacturing Co.,
Grand Rapids, Michigan; anything mentioning coin-op.
- National Piano Player Co., Oregon, Illinois; I have only one tiny
ad with no picture!
- Niagara Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co., North Tonawanda, New
York; catalogue and ads with pictures
- North Tonawanda Musical Instrument Works; any cats or sheets in color.
- Otto, F.G. Otto & Sons, Pianette piano.
- Pianova, Newark, New Jersey; any pix
- Regal; anything except 44-note upright cabinet player.
- Regina; Coin-op Regina piano, anything.
- Resotone Grand; The Resotone Grand Co., of New York, anything
- Rhapsodist, anything with pictures
- Standard Piano Player Co., Oregon Illinois; Anything with pictures
or extensive text.
- Symphony Player Co., Covington, Kentucky; any pictures
- Van Roll Musical Instrument Co., North Tonawanda
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