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Wurlitzer struggled on for 20 years or so and made one final effort to keep its jukebox business viable with a nostalgic 1971 model called the "1050". The model did not sell well and only 1,600 units were produced. The jukebox line was sold to a German company in 1973.
As production grew, de Kleist approached other musical instrument manufacturers to create new instruments under their brands. One of these companies was the Wurlitzer company of Cincinnati, Ohio. Wurlitzer said no to buying any of De Kleist's existing barrel-organ based products, but said that they would buy a coin-operated piano. [4]
Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum 1916 #1 Special Carrousel, North Tonawanda, NY, plays alongside a Wurlitzer 146-A (see below), alternatively playing a roll on one organ, then playing the other organ while the first one rewinds, has keyboard Unknown Year, American Treasure Tour Collection, Oaks, PA # 103
Wurlitzer at the Musical Museum, Brentford. A number of Wurlitzer theatre organs were imported and installed in the United Kingdom in the period from 1925 to just before the Second World War (1939–45). The first Wurlitzer theatre organ shipped to the UK was dispatched on 1 December 1924, and shipped in via Southampton Docks.
Rembert Wurlitzer Co. was a distinguished firm in New York City that specialized in fine musical instruments and bows. Rembert Rudolph Wurlitzer (1904–1963), violin expert and a grandson of the founder of Cincinnati’s Wurlitzer Co. (pianos, organs, jukeboxes), bowed out of the family firm in 1949 to found Manhattan's Rembert Wurlitzer Co., which has bought, sold, authenticated and or ...
During World War II, the U.S. War Production Board ordered the cessation of all US piano manufacturing so their factories could be used for the war effort. Baldwin factories were used to manufacture plywood components for various aircraft, including the Aeronca PT-23 trainer and the stillborn Curtiss-Wright C-76 Caravan cargo aircraft.
Key personnel left the company and the arrangement fell apart in 1964. The rights to the Martin trademark were taken over by Wurlitzer, and the Martin factory became a division of Wurlitzer in Elkhart. Wurlitzer eventually discontinued production of saxophones and sold low-quality saxophones made by Malerne as "The Martin".
It has one, two or four internal speakers (depending on the model), but can also be connected to an external amplifier. [5] Compared to the Rhodes piano, the sound from a Wurlitzer is sharper and closer to a sawtooth wave, while the Rhodes' is closer to a sine wave. This gives the Wurlitzer a sharper and punchier tone. [6]