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In 1909 AMI (National Automatic Music Co.), located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, started to produce automatic player pianos. They designed a mechanism for selectable music rolls which was then modified for use in jukeboxes, too.
The first jukebox produced - the National Automatic Selection Phonograph - played both sides of 10 records. This kind of mechanism was used for several following years.
AMI was renamed to Automatic Musical Instrument Company at one time. In the 1950s several licenses were sold to other countries like Italy (Microtecnica), UK (BAL-AMI), Denmark (Jensen, 1954), France (1960, EDEN AMI by Marcel Dentzer (EMDE)), Australia (autumn 1958, John Larkin at National Instruments Pty. Ltd.) and The Netherlands (1959, van der Heem NV, The Hague) .
In spring 1959 AMI was purchased by the Automatic Canteen Company of America and merged with ROWE. Canteen also acquired ROWE AC Services, a manufacturer of coin operated vending machines in 1958 and Tonomat in Germany in 1960.
In 1968 ROWE became a subsidiary of Triangle Industries Inc., a cable manufacturer. In 2007 ROWE/AMI merged with Merit, a producer for TouchTunes.
ROWE Int. is still in production (CD and internet jukeboxes) but relocated it's production to Reynosa, Mexico in early 2009.
AMI Entertainment, the subsidiary of ROWE International providing digital music content, aquired Rock-Ola/Antique Apparatus in June 2009.

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