The Virgil phonograph was manufactured by the Plaola Piano Company Limited in Oshawa, Ontario.
Talking Machine World, June 15, 1919, p. 79: "The Virgil Phonograph has been put on the market by a concern in Oshawa, Ont."
Times and Guide (Weston, Ontario), February 19, 1919, p. 5.
Toronto Daily Star, May 17, 1919, p. 6
TDS, October 11, 1919, p. 3
Toronto Daily Star, October 14, 1920, p. 14
Jim Carino wrote of his Virgil gramophone, by the Plaola Piano Company, for Antique Phonograph News here: http://www.capsnews.org/apn2012-6.htm
The following images are of his tabletop machine, taken in November, 2011:
An upright Virgil phonograph for sale in Loyalist, Ontario in 2023.
A Virgil table model phonograph listed in 2024 in Cavan-Monaghan, Ontario.
A Virgil phonograph listed in 2024 in St. Thomas, Ontario.
