What I mean is that the original instrument made by Melville Clark was not the same piano that Wurlitzer made and that Toyo may currently make.
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This Japanese company may be currently using Apollo on some of their instruments. The name may also have been used in 1899 in Russia and after WWII by the Toyo company. They had stopped making Apollo pianos by World War II. In the 1930's Wurlitzer built many inexpensive non-player Apollo baby grands. Other names used were Apolloette and Apollogrand. Grand pianos in general were becoming more and more popular And Apollo boasted that their player piano design was much better than some of the others built at that time. Some of the grands were extremely beautiful and elaborate and were called The Apollo Reproducing Piano. Unfortunately putting a phonograph or radio inside a piano did not do much to save the piano industry from a great loss of sales when the great depression hit America in 1929. Maybe to sell more pianos or just maybe (these are only my thoughts) someone with Melville Clark may have forseen the possibility that the new phonographs (along with radio) would become major competition for the piano industry in the near future. And I think this idea was just a gimmick. Why? The higher cost of the instrument was one reason sells may have been lower. But, this idea most likely did not go over well with piano buyers. The idea of placing a record player inside of the case just above the mechanism was probably used by other makers too. These are very rare instruments to find nowadays. This was especially useful in keeping the music going without any silent time while the roll was rewinding. So basically one could use either a piano roll or a record. The Apollophone was a player piano that also had a phonograph inside. Names used were Art-Apollo and Apollophone. They were then located in Grand Haven MI. * Apollo Baby Grand For Sale in Fishers, InĪpollo Piano was a name introduced in 1901 by the Melville Clark Co. See Our Sell My Piano Page or Email Baby Grand For Sale in Mayfield, Ky SOLDĪpollo, baby grand piano, bench included. Do You Have an Apollo Piano For Sale? Advertise Your Apollo Player Grand or Upright.