[Jukebox-list] Another "pneumi" on eBay!

[David Breneman]

--- Ron Rich <ronnnrich at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  Also have been told that
> the word "Piano" was part of the company name, to avoid problems
> with AT&T. Don't know how true the above is ( Seeburg also
> purchased "Eastern Electric Co", much later--they made the cig.
> machines)--Ron Rich

Sounds plausible to me.

The "real" Western Electric company made household appliances
for a while, but as far as I know their only commercial
involvement with recording was developing the electric
recording system used by Victor and Columbia beginning in
1925 (and the associated exponential horn reproducing system),
and the Vitaphone talking picture system.  Besides, why
would WECO outsource a component as critical as the 
amplifier, when they owned deForest's Audion patents, and
had been making tube-based amplifiers since ~1915?



David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com

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