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• Wilcox & White. Antique Piano Shop (AntiquePianoShop.com).
  "​Wilcox & White was established in 1877 in Meriden, CT. The firm built a variety of pianos and organs during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, but their specialty was player pianos and player organs. Wilcox & White was one of the first to produce a 'push up player' device to play ordinary pianos. This device was called the 'Angelus' and was essentially an external cabinet with felt covered 'fingers' that were pushed up to a piano keyboard. The device used a perforated roll and was operated by foot treadles, and was the forerunner of the traditional player piano of the early 20th Century. They built a line of player reed organs called the 'Wilcox & White Symphony Organ' which were very complex and ahead of their time. After the turn-of-the-century, the firm manufactured more traditional player pianos under the 'Wilcox & White', 'Artrio-Angelus' and 'Vesper' brand names. Wilcox & White was out of business before the Great Depression era. "
• Angelus. Antique Piano Shop (AntiquePianoShop.com).
  "​The “Angelus” was an early brand of player piano mechanism built by the Wilcox & White Piano & Organ Company of Meridian, CT, circa 1877-1929. The Angelus player system was a standard mechanical player system while the “Artrio-Angelus” was a more advanced version of the player system that played with expression and human nuance. ",
  "​The Angelus and Artrio-Angelus systems were installed in several different brands of American-made pianos. In 1909 the London firm of Sir Herbert Marshall & Company entered into a contract with Wicox & White which allowed his firm the exclusive representation of the Angelus player mechanism in Great Britain. "
  • Being the Originators of Piano Player, ... ANGELUS ... (ad. / image). Meriden, CT: Wilcox & White Co. (early 20^th century
    date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P4241,Q40719727
    ).
    "​The KNABE-ANGELUS and the EMERSON-ANGELUS both possess those exclusive features so well known in the ANGELUS in cabinet form—the Phrasing Lecer mastering time, the Melody Buttons giving subleties of expression, and the Diophragm Pneumatics controlling the power and delicacy of human touch. Correct musical expression is impossible without these three features which are exclusive with the ANGELUS and its combination instruments; and so they stand in the world of music without an artistic peer. "