Keen-O-Phone Co.

U.S. company, organized in February 1908. The company was initially in the phonograph business, marketing machines capable of playing standard lateral-cut discs. When this brought swift legal action from the Victor Talking Machine Company, they shifted attention to record production. Recording operations, under direction of , began in 1912. Recordings were made in the company's own Philadelphia studios, and employed sapphire-ball vertical-cut masters. Sales to the public were not announced until April 1913. All releases on the company's label appeared between mid-1913 and early 1914. In January 1914 a new company () was organized, and this company eventually replaced the Keen-O-Phone brand with a new label, .