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Phonograph Repairman's Trunk

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"The phonograph† is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.

"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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this is really bizarre , did Wing pianos sell phonographs ? The Wing badge looks much newer than the rest of the case , odd :?

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[YouTube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDcisWKsCOw/YouTube]

Here is a video of a five-pedal Wing & Son upright with what appears to be an electronic player mechanism retrofitted under the keys, to allow for playing from MIDI files. It's an interesting instrument.

The company may have tried a brief fling at making phonographs during the 1910s-1920s when the off brand machines showed up.

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