The Automatic Musical / Link Piano
Company Factory Building

(Photograph courtesy of the Broome County Historical Society)

Bundy Time Recorder building, circa 1900.

(Photograph from The Music Trade Review, May 30, 1914 edition)

The Link Piano Company office and factory building, circa 1914. The front of the building faced on Water Street, with this view taken from the corner of Water and Dwight Streets. To the rear of the factory was Center Street, which ran parallel with Water Street. Dwight street was a cross street that stretched along the side of the factory and intersected both Water and Center Streets. In this photograph the 17-foot two-story extension to the top of the factory building is clearly obvious.

(Photograph courtesy of David L. Junchen)

Link Piano Company's third floor machine shop. According to the Sanborn Fire Insurance maps the third floor of the factory building contained the metal and woodworking facilities. Thus, this photograph appears to show the part of the third floor more or less devoted to metal working. Along the sides of the work area and under the closely spaced windows are work benches. In the center of the photograph are what looks to be a row of lathes, with other unidentified equipment in the background. Notice the overhead flat-belt line-shaft power distribution system fastened to the ceiling area.

(Photograph courtesy of the late Ed Freyer collection, courtesy of Ed Link)

The Link Piano Company employees, circa 1925. George R. Thayer, the mechanical genius behind the Link coin pianos and pipe organ designs, is standing at far left. George Raymond Deyo, the talented chief arranger for Link music rolls, is kneeling in the second row and is the fourth person from the right. The fellow at front row center with the big smile is Tom Bradley, chief inspector. No piano left the Link factory without his approval.

(Photograph courtesy of Rusty King)

A modern concrete and rather mundane looking parking garage located at 183-185 Water Street, circa 2012, and now occupying the former Link Piano Company factory site, plus other former adjacent building sites. Not only is the old masonry factory gone, but so is Dwight Street, which ran alongside the now razed and long gone Link Piano Company office and factory building. This view is from Water Street looking west, about where Dwight Street formerly intersected.