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3 unusual facts about Aeolian Company


Aeolian Company

Interestingly, in 1916 the Æolian Co. started making Vocalion phonographs and in 1917/8 started Vocalion Records, a maker of high-quality discs which in December 1924 was sold to Brunswick Records.

The Copyright Act of 1909 extended the law to cover all “mechanical” reproductions of musical compositions, whether they could be read by human beings or not.

Hayes and Harlington railway station

The film "Trains at Hayes Station" showing trains passing through the station with stereophonic sound was filmed from the roof of the defunct Aeolian pianola factory just north of the station.


Robert Armbruster

In his teenage years, he started recording piano rolls for the Aeolian Companies Duo-Art reproducing pianos and turned out hundreds of classical and salon-type performances for them.


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