Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ads: Music to Your Ears

Business:  Wilking Music Company Location:  120 East Ohio Street, near Massachusetts Avenue Years of Operation: 1922-1995 Notable: For over 70 years, Wilking Music Company was the place to go if you wanted that glamorous Steinway...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Long gone Regal Guitar Mfg. STILL has the perfect gift for you!

I wonder what name they finally settled on! Advertisement from early 1901. Probably from a newspaper. eBay Regal Manufacturing Company was a division of the Wulschner-Stewart Music Company. Emil Wulschner (b. 1847)  immigrated to Indianapolis from...

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Posted in: Indianapolis Collected Indianapolis Collected: Play it again, Sam – A tragic tale of love and loss

It was a dark and stormy night in March 2004, and I was drinking cheap beer in a smoky basement bar, dreaming about a piano. Every collector has a sad tale of The One That...

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