[1] During the early 1900s, George T. Link was managing a small firm named Shaft Brothers Piano Company, which manufactured and sold pianos to the Automatic Musical Company of Binghamton, New York.
When the Automatic Musical Company went bankrupt about a decade later, George's son, Edwin A.
The Links, with their two sons, George and Edwin Jr., moved from Huntington, Indiana to Binghamton that same year.
[1] For some time, the business primarily focused on making player pianos and orchestrions.
The Star Theater, which was the oldest movie house in Binghamton, was the first to use the Link automatic piano to provide music for its silent films.