Beautiful Antique 1920'S Baby Grand CHICAGO APOLLO Player Piano !PRICES SLASHED!

Description

P
urchased in downtown Chicago in the early 1990's. It has been the center of the living room in a smoke free
home and was newly strung and tuned. The buyer will arrange for delivery. It comes with 4 full page antique magazine adds, (last picture), from when the piano was first built and sold.
The Apollo Company was located at
329 Wabash ave.
Chicago, IL
Later, locations included:
Department 1558, De Kalb, IL.
250 Stockton St. &  985 Market St.
San Francisco, CA
607 W Seventh St. Los Angeles, CA.
"In 1901, the Melville Clark Piano Company introduced the Apollo line of pianos and player pianos (not to be confused with the Japanese brand “Apollo” from the mid 20th Century). Melville Clark was an inventor and innovator, and these Apollo instruments were built as high quality, advanced instruments for their time.
They were then located in Grand Haven MI. Later in DeKalb Ill. Wurlitzer bought
Apollo
in the 1920's. Names used were Art-
Apollo
and Apollophone. The Apollophone was a player
piano
that also had a ph
onograph inside.