The best known Music Master phonograph was carried exclusively in Toronto by the major department store, Robert Simpson Company Limited. However, we have found two other Music Master cabinet logos that bear no relationship to the Simpsons Music Master design and these machines were clearly the product of other companies.
An upright cabinet Music Master phonograph was posted to YouTube about 2012.
Another upright cabinet Music Master phonograph for sale in Brampton, Ontario with a different cabinet logo.
An upright cabinet Music Master for sale in Aurora, Ontario in 2024.
An Orthophonic-style cabinet Music Master for sale in Toronto, Ontario in 2024.
Another Orthophonic-style cabinet Music Master for sale in Lotbiniere, Quebec in late 2024.
An Orthophonic-style console cabinet Music Master for sale in St Sebastien, Quebec in early 2025.
There are tantalizing references to a "Musicmaster Phonograph Company" in Vancouver, British Columbia.
"Vancouver - Musicmaster Phonograph Co Ltd (mfrs) east end Smythe." (Wrigley's Classified Business Directory, 1918, p 1266)
"Nineteen new companies started business in British Columbia this week including Musicmaster Phonograph Company Limited, $500,000." (The Province (Vancouver), January 27, 1921, p. 17)
"Musicmaster Phonograph Co., Ltd., Rogers' Building, Vancouver, has been registered, acquiring the business carried on by H. Hamilton and J. B. Maysmith under the name Musicmaster Phonograph Co. Capital, $500,000." (Canadian Furniture World and the Undertaker, April 1921, p 57)
"The MusicMaster Phonograph Co., Ltd., Vancouver, has made an assignment." (Talking Machine World, December 1921, p. 154)
The phrase "Music Master" was commonly used by several companies to describe their phonographs. In 1918, Pathé lauded their Pathéphone as "the World's Greatest Music Master, the finest Phonograph made" (Toronto Daily Star, December 14, 1918, p. 13).
In 1919, a classified ad in the Toronto Daily Star, March 22, 1919, p. 21 offered a "Rare bargain, brand new one hundred and sixty-five dollar beautiful cabinet Vitaphone, the Music Master, plays all disc records, sacrifice for $87 for quick sale".
And in 1920, another ad described a "Real gramophone bargain, one only, brand new, beautiful large cabinet Melbaphone, the Music Master, cost $225, for quick sale $125." (Toronto Daily Star, March 24, 1920, p. 20).
