Haddorff  supplied Seeburg with complete pianos ready to have there player mechanisms installed. Since Haddorff had a large established manufacturing facility it is likely they also produced the cabinets for these pianos. From the information known the first Seeburg models A through E were made by the Haddorff Piano Company of Rockford Illinois. These styles  incorporated art glass fronts. Styles A and B were plain styles with styles C,D, and E being the art styles. During this time he was calling attention to the new style E violin piano. August 1911 by this time Seeburg was advertising their own line of five models with no less then  three art styles. Sometimes he would introduce them one at a time or sometimes several at one time. Seeburg introduced new models in alphabetical order.
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From 1909 to about 1920 each Seeburg piano was assigned a serial number by the manufacturer of the piano. Seeburg would then build and install the player mechanisms at the Seeburg factory. Â During this time Seeburg purchased pianos from many different manufactures. Seeburg Company began selling pianos with the Seeburg name and mechanisms.
This company distributed the full out put of the Marquette Company. During this time Seeburg and his associates built the first coin pianos “on location” in the city. Seeburg worked at the Marguette Piano Company.
Seeburg did this to enter the Coin-operated piano field. In 1905 Seeburg returned to the Chicago area.
Seeburg then entered the piano indrusty on his own when he co-founded the Kurtz – Seeburg Action Company in Rockford Illinois about a hour and a half outside of Chicago. After Bush and Gertz he became the manager of the Conover Piano manufacturing facility of the Chicago Cottage Organ Company. Â Seeburg then went and worked for Bush and Gertz. Smith this later became Smith, Barnes, and Strohber. The first company Seeburg worked for was C.A. He spent these years in the Chicago-land area. In 1887 Justus Seeburg started his career in the piano industry.