Word: pianola
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...most magniloquently named organizations on earth, Imperial Industrial Corp., was rolling steadily forward last week. Imperial Industrial Corp. belches no great plume of smoke over the industrial landscape; it is, simply, all that is left of the U.S. pianola roll business. But Imperial is a complete monopoly and it is enjoying a small boom, largely produced by A.F. of M. Boss James Caesar Petrillo's ban on phonograph recording (TIME, June...
...factory in the upper fringes of The Bronx. It seldom advertises, does much of its retailing through big concerns like Sears, Roebuck and Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. Its customers are mostly U.S. farm families. To this small but steady market, Imperial sells approximately half a million pianola rolls a year. Biggest current sellers: When the Lights Go on Again, Moonlight Becomes You, The Beer Barrel Polka, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life, The Star-Spangled Banner...
...heyday of 1923, when 197,252 pianolas (more than 50% of all the pianos sold in the U.S.) were sold in a single year, the pianola industry hired the greatest pianists, such as Paderewski, to record their performances on perforated paper. It also hired such early jazzers as J. Lawrence Cook and Harlem's historic James P. Johnson. But as the pianola gave ground to the phonograph, the pianola industry could no longer afford to pay for personal recordings...
...copy comes off the machine here in New York. At the other end of the lines the printers get typewritten copies too-but they also get a narrow punched tape that they feed into an attachment that controls the typesetting keys in almost exactly the same way that a pianola record controls the keys of a piano. It sounds simple-but the Teletypesetter Company tells me no one has ever counted the number of parts in each sending machine-and that the reproducing attachments are equally complicated...
Peter Paul Loyanich, 10, was brought up to pianism by a San Franciscan who scraped a living as violinist for Hearst's radio station KYA, saw talent in his tot at two. Peter Paul learned to play on an old oaken pianola, has been huddled under the tutorial wing of Virtuoso José Iturbi, who has said of him: "He is extraordinary -Santa Maria...