ELECTROVA
Automatic-electrical
(coin-operated) instruments, made by the Electrova
Company, This house is controlled by Jacob Doll
& Sons.
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ELECTRATONE
This is the registered name of
an electric coin operated player pianos manufactured by the
Waltham Piano Co. of Milwaukee, Wis. They are high grade
instruments made in three new designs and possess peculiar
features including a combination harp or banjo with piano
effect which is finding an ever increasing market.
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ELLINGTON
Ellington reproducing pianos,
grand pianos, uprights and player pianos are made by the
Ellington Piano Co., Cincinnati. It has been subjected to the
most severe tests of all clematis and it has endured the most
rigorous use. All in all, it is considered among the best
values on the market. The Ellington Manualo (the player) a
piano with the human touch is a triumph of tone and technique
combined, and shares fully in the established reputation of
the Ellington piano proper. Output controlled by the
Baldwin
Piano Co.
1920 - 50000 1922 -
56500 1924 - 60000 1928 - 61700
1921 - 52500 1923 - 57500 1925 - 60500 1930 - 63000
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ELLSWORTH
Pianos of popular
characteristics bearing this name are from the factory of
Armstrong
Piano Co., East Rochester, N. Y. is of reliable
quality and fully guaranteed.
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EMERSON
Emerson pianos have been
manufactured since 1849 and are known everywhere by the
descriptive phrase, "The sweet-toned Emerson."
Upright, grand, and player pianos were manufactured.
Established by William Emerson
in 1849, it is one of the beat known names in the piano
world. William Emerson's idea was "tone," not tone
volume solely but tone characterized by clearness and
sweetness. The immediate demand for his instruments produced
abundant evidence of his success. They soon became known as
the "sweet-toned Emerson." The Emerson was made in
small grands, spinets, being predominently a piano for the
home. It was a product of the Aeolian American Corporation.
1964 - 100442 1969 -
12000 1974 - 135600 1979 - 145600
1965 - 104300 1970 - 12190 1975 - 137500 1980 -
148000
1966 - 109800 1971 - 12490 1976 - 140900 1981 -
150500
1967 - 112300 1972 - 12720 1977 - 142800 1982 -
145300
1968 - 116000 1973 - 13070 1978 - 144000 1983 -
162845
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ENGELHARDT
The Engelhardt Piano Company
of St. Johnsville, N. Y., makes a specialty of the production
of automatic instruments embracing orchestrions,
banjo-orchestras, player-pianos and reproducing player
pianos, bell pianos, flute pianos, xylophone pianos, coin
operated pianos, reproducing player pianos, orchestrions,
banjo orchestras and midget orchestrions.
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ENTERTAINER
The Automatic Musical
Instruments (AMI), Inc.
The Entertainer is a
nine-piece band, a player piano, and a manual piano. It's the
only piano the home or commercial user will need. The world's
first and only computer-controlled or-chestrion piano, it
uses the Marantz Pianocorder System and can therefore use all
Marantz piano tapes and the company's own orchestrion tape
cartridges. This "live music" instrument has volume
control, simplicity of operation, retractable see-through
keyboard cover, and an easy tilt-out instrument shelf for
easy tuning.
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ESTONIA
PIANOS
(1992)
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EUTERP
Good and durable popular grade
instruments from the large factory of Jacob Bros.,
New York.
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EPWORTH PIANO
Epworth pianos have long been
known among musical people for their characteristic sweetness
of tone and all around musical excellence. The workmanship,
both inside and out, are exceptionally high-class and the
Epworth represents an intelligent, conscientious, painstaking
effort as applied to the production of a sweet toned,
reliable instrument. Epworth pianos are made by the Williams
Piano & Organ Co. of Chicago
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ESTEY
Alexander,
Anderson Bros., Chase & Baker, Drachmann,
Lancaster, Malcome Love, Meldorf, Metropolitan
Purcell, Settergren, Soward, Wegman
Estey grands, period grands,
reproducing grands, pianos and player pianos are manufactured
by The Estey Piano Company, an old established and
distinguished house of high standing throughout the trade.
These instruments are well and favorably known in practically
every corner of the earth, Estey being one of the best-known
musical names in the world. The pianos represent the highest
grade of construction throughout, and have been endorsed by
numerous prominent musicians for their wonderful tone
quality.
Manufacturers of the famous
Estey line of pianos. The factory and executive offices were
located at Bluffton, In. The Estey business was established
in 1869 and has ever since occupied a position of prominence
in the pianoforte industry. The concern manufactures a
complete line of pianos, including 4 ft.-6 in. grands,
spinets and consoles. Estey pianos received an award at the
Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, at the Chicago
World's Fair in 1893, at the International Exposition,
Torino, Italy, in 1911, at the Pan-American Exposition in San
Francisco in 1915, and latterly they were awarded the gold
medal at the Sesqui-Centennial~ Exposition in Philadelphia
for unusual beauty of case design and the high quality of the
instruments.
Estey pianos were available in
styles from period to traditional to modern, and in woods and
finishes including African mahogany, American walnut, limed
oak. Salem maple, blond mahogany and cherry.
The Estey Piano Corporation
made notable improvements in piano building that have
developed into the outstanding feature of Estey pianos. The
Violin Bridge Construction (Patent Pending) is said to
improve the tone quality, tone volume and sustaining tone in
a most amazing manner. This discovery is very simple and is
accomplished by reducing the mass of the treble bridge by
means of running a furrow or cove along each 5i(lO of the
bridge, thereby adding flexibility and reducing the weight of
the bridge. The Direct Blow Action (Pat. No. 2096478) is used
in all Estey consoles and spinets. This development permits
of correct touch, maximum power and excellent responsiveness,
and furthermore eliminates action worries and troubles. All
Estey pianos have 7-ply hard maple planks.
The manufacture of Estey
products was under the supervision of men who had been
prominently identified with the piano industry of this
country for many years, men who are authorities on quality
pianoforte building.
1900 - 27800 1910 -
40000 1930 - 90090 1950 - 144000
1905 - 35000 1915 - 45000 1935 - 122000 1955 - 157000
1907 - 37000 1920 - 57000 1940 - 129300 1960 - 172000
1908 - 38000 1925 - 77000 1947 - 138000 1965 - 191000
Estey Pianos with
Settergren numbers:
1928 - 8000 1934 -
17500 1939 - 22400 1943 - 24800
1930 - 11000 1937 - 20700 1941 - 24000 1948 - 25800
1932 - 14000 1938 - 21600 1942 - 24600 1949 - 27000
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EUPHONA
The famous Euphona
Inner-Player piano is made by The Cable Company
of Chicago in two styles, PW and PR, Equipped with manually a
controlled transposing device; key lock; pedal door openers;
pneumatic controls of expression by means of depress able
buttons, and tracker board control of piano sustaining
dampers. It also has a full tempo scale, zero to 130",
roll, and a novel feature termed "Silent High
Speed," all controlled by a single controlling lever.
All controlling devices are concealed by Cable Sliding
Wrist-Rest and Lever Cover. Has non-leaking, a noncorroding
tracker bar, high speed roll, six-unit motors, patented
compensating governor and the Inner-Player Miniature
Keyboard. The whole device is simple in construction and
presents the maximum of reliability. The cases aft handsomely
veneered and well finished, of plain line design, all of
which, coupled with the mechanical advantages enumerated
above, account for the immense popularity of this instrument.
The Style PW differs from the PR in the size of case, the
former being 4 ft, 4 in. high and the latter 4 ft. 6 in.
high. The Euphona Reproducing Inner-Player piano (which see)
is the Euphona Inner-Player, electrically equipped. The
Euphona Inner-Player, pianos have been made by
The
Cable Company since 1907.
REPRODUCING INNER
PLAYER
One of the world's largest
manufacturers of pianos and player)pianos, The
Cable
Company. began experimental work on reproducing
pianos in 1909. During the seven years that followed their
factories produced and severely tested a number of excellent
models, but it was not until 1916 that their scientific
experts were satisfied. Then, and not until then, was the
Euphona reproducing-Inner Player placed upon the market, for
it was the policy of this great house never to experiment
upon the public. The Euphona Reproducing Inner Player can be
played in five different ways one. It may be used as a
regular piano; 2. As a regular foot created player-piano; 3.
As a foot-operated player-piano with motor assistance; 4. As
a motor-operated player piano with manual control of
wind-pressures for expression purposes; and five. As a
thoroughly efficient and entirely automatic reproducing
piano. The Reproducing Inner Player is equipped with the
famous Cable Inner Player parts, which were awarded the Gold
Medal at the Panama Pacific International Exposition. The
Miniature Keyboard, Triplex Pedal Device, Wrist Rest and a
score more patented features are inventions to be found in no
other players than those of Cable manufacture. Musicians have
highly praised the easy action, full mellow tone and evenly
balanced scale of the piano element.
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EVERETT
The Everett Piano Company was
established in Boston, Mass., in 1883, by the John J. Church
Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the leading music
publishing concerns of America. In June, 1926, Everett merged
with the Cable-Nelson Piano Company; and the firm moved
manufacturing facilities from Boston to South Haven,
Michigan.
From its earliest inception,
the Everett was a piano of high quality. Teresa Carreno,
foremost pianist of her time; Walter Damrosch, long-time
conductor of the N.Y. symphony and pioneer radio conductor;
Cecile Chaminade, eminent French composer; the pianist Alfred
Reisenauer, John Philip Sousa-these are but a few of the many
great artists who played Everett grands on the concert stage
or owned, used and admired them in private life. Because of
the growing vogue of the small piano in the home and the
shrinking market for grands. Everett ceased making grand
pianos in 1946 and devoted their entire manufacturing
facilities to small pianos.
A turning point in the
company's history was its acquisition in 1936 by George
Stapely. (The firm subsequently became a subsidiary of the
Meridan Corporation.) Mr. Stapely was a graduate engineer who
had served as production manager for Chevrolet and authored a
series of books on engineering and cost control. One of the
greatest of Mr. Stapely's innovations was the development of
the Balanced Tension back. The Everett Balanced Tension back
construction (patented), introduced in 1946, was a most
important improvement in scientific piano construction
equaling in its engineering features that of the full cast
plate now universally used. The principle is as old as
history, but new as applied to pianos. Using cast metal
levers which control the balance the 20 ton pull of the piano
strings and synchronize with movements of the cast plate
under varying conditions of heat and cold, damp or dry
climates, Everett achieves 40% greater tone freedom and a
much more solid tone.
Exhaustive testing and the
subsequent use in all part~ of America during the last
thirteen years have proven most conclusively that pianos so
constructed stay in tune for a much longer period. All
Everett consoles and spinets have this exclusive construction
feature. In 1949, as the result of many years' research,
Everett introduced the first small pianos with a dyna-tension
scale, which, according to Everett, gives them the
"tonal beauty of a grand." The dyna-tension scale
was developed and perfected by John A. Henns, America's
foremost piano scale designer. This exclusive scale is
possible only in Everett consoles and spinets with Balanced
Tension back, because no other piano (i.e. a piano with
wooden back posts instead of metal levers) has the strength
to carry the increased load of a super high string tension.
The company claims that the beautifully fashioned Everett
offers the same "concert fidelity" . . .
distortion-free volume more than adequate for today's home. .
as a fine grard piano, which also has "high
tension" strings.
Everett employed one of
America's leading furniture designers, William H. Clingman of
Grand Rapids, Michigan, to create authentic period designs
and finest modern and contemporary stylings in a complete
range of light, medium and dark hardwood veneer finishes to
harmonize with other fine furniture pieces.
The Everett School Piano has
been purchased by more than 7,000 colleges and universities,
schools and churches since 1948. It was the first school
piano to meet and then exceed the rigid specifications for
school pianos set by Dr. Elwyn C. Carter, head of the music
department of Western Michigan University. The Style 11,
incorporates many features including a greatly reinforced
fallboard with concealed locks at both ends, extra sturdy
back-posts (26% heavier than before), and a locking top
(patent applied for). The piano comes in a choice of
finishes.
At one time one of the most
active high grade piano on the list. A piano of distinctive
qualities which the enthusiastic acclaim of many of the
foreign, artists of the world and promised to make the
Everett one of the foremost. Controlled by the
John
Church Co., of Cincinnati.
1960 - 125700 1969 -
191000 1978 - 252000 1987 - 301000
1961 - 132000 1970 - 195000 1979 - 261000 1988 -
305000
1962 - 139000 1971 - 202000 1980 - 269000 1989 -
351000
1963 - 145000 1972 - 209000 1981 - 276000 1990 -
355000
1964 - 152000 1973 - 217000 1982 - 282000 1992 -
359000
1965 - 168000 1974 - 223000 1983 - 287000 1993 -
362000
1966 - 174000 1975 - 229000 1984 - 292000 1994 -
366000
1967 - 178000 1976 - 235000 1985 - 296000 1995 -
369000
1968 - 181000 1977 - 241000 1986 - 298300 1996 -
373000
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