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

[Jens Hultgren]

Seeburg, Capehart and others used Webster amplifiers in the early years.
Seeburg only started making their own amps around 1936 - I had two model "D"
Symphonolas ("Bookends"), and one had a Webster amp, the other Seeburg. The
amps were near identical btw.

      Jens

On 6/6/06, David Breneman <david_breneman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- 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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