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The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer. The company initially imported stringed, woodwind and brass instruments from Germany for resale in the United States.
After the end of World War II, during which the company helped develop and then produce the variable timing proximity fuze for the US Navy, [7] production changed to producing a variety of items, including radios, jukeboxes and electronic organs. The plant closed in 1973 and was purchased, in the early 1980s, by a group of investors with the ...
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.
All students listened to each of their instruments through headphones. Up to 24 individual student instruments could be connected together. According to former Wurlitzer employee Bill Fuller, 75% of all universities used Wurlitzer piano labs in the late 1960s or early 1970s, and some facilities were still in operation as late as 2000. [28]
Fritz Wurlitzer in his workshop in the 1970s Fritz Wurlitzer Double Bass Clarinet. Fritz Ulrich Wurlitzer (21 December 1888 – 5 or 9 April 1984) was a German clarinet maker, based in Erlbach in Vogtland, Saxony. He developed the Reform Boehm clarinet and made improvements to the Schmidt-Kolbe clarinet [1] and the German bass clarinet. [2]
At 21 years old, Marlee Matlin made history as the youngest person to win Best Actress in 1987 and the first deaf person to win an Oscar for her film debut in the role of janitor Sarah Norman.
The Blackpool Opera House organ of 1939, designed by Horace Finch, was the last new Wurlitzer to be installed in the UK. The Granada, Kingston also received a Wurlitzer in or around 1939, but most of this came from an earlier installation in Edinburgh. This was the last Wurlitzer installation to be opened, with Reginald Dixon at the console.
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 ...