Category:Artrio Angelus (reproducing piano)

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 Artrio-Angelus (1916-1922/1925)

• The Reproducing Piano - Angelus-Artrio. The Pianola Institute (pianola.org).
  "​Introduction The Artrio-Angelus was a development of the normal Angelus player piano, manufactured in Meriden, Connecticut, by the firm of Wilcox and White. ... ",
  "​ As the era of the player piano dawned in the late 1890s, Wilcox and White created the Angelus, and subsequently argued unceasingly that they had been the first to develop such a piano player. Around 1914, when the reproducing piano began to take over, the Company quite naturally wanted its own product to compete in the marketplace, and so Frank C. White, grandson of the founder, and the firm's technical director, set about inventing the Artrio Angelus, perhaps deliberately choosing the name in order to be one up on the Aeolian Company's Duo-Art. As happened in so many player piano companies, the recording producers for the new automatic instruments were recruited from the ranks of the expert foot-pedallers, and so it was that Percival Van Yorx, the leading Angelus player, took on the responsibility of creating Artrio rolls from the playing of a worthy selection of fine pianists. .. ",
  "​ The Artrio Angelus was launched gradually over a period of two or three years, with a notable introduction to the music trade in New York in June 1916. ... However, the piano was not destined for a long career, since Wilcox and White succumbed to bankruptcy in early 1922, being sold at auction to the Hallet and Davis Piano Company. For another three years the recording of Artrio rolls continued as before in Meriden, with new studios in Colony Street in the downtown area, while the reproducing mechanisms were manufactured by the Simplex Company in Worcester, Mass. Finally, in 1925, the roll department was taken over by the QRS Music Co of Chicago, and the repertoire was thereby merged with that company's Recordo expression piano. "