If you see a white Wurlitzer, it is either an earlier model (in the 100 series) or is a 200 model that has been painted white. You can find them in black, dark green, red, or beige. The Wurlitzer 200 and 200A are the most common types of Wurlitzer available today. These pianos had plastic lids, solid state electronics, and internal speakers.
In 1968, all of these models were replaced with the Wurlitzer 200 model, which is the model most of us are familiar with today. Wurlitzer also produced a 145 and 145B model, which has tubes. In the early 1960s, the 140 model was released. All of these models featurs a tremolo effect and were exclusively using vacuum tube circuitry. They have legs which can be removed and put back in at will.
Wurlitzer spinet piano 1940s portable#
Despite their weight, these are all portable models of Wurlitzer pianos. These were heavy pieces that had a case made from fiberboard and were fitted with a single speaker. The earliest versions for sale were the Wurlitzer 100 series. The Wurlitzer company took that design, but replaced the strings of the piano with struck steel reeds. Originally, the design was an amplified, conventional upright piano. The Wurlitzer was invented by radio engineer and inventor Benjamin Miessner.
Especially when they went to market with their upright, Spinette model pianos, Wurlitzer was targeting the everyday American audience. Most popular as an early American brand, Wurlitzer is iconized as a well-made, good-sounding piano. From various stylistic influences such as Florentine, Spanish and French, to entirely different models like spinet, upright, grand / baby grand, and electronic, Wurlitzer is a diverse brand known for many different aesthetics. The Wurlitzer piano brand can be found on a wide range of pianos. In the early 1990s, having recently acquired Chickering pianos, the company’s ownership was in flux and was bought by Baldwin in 1995.
Throughout the 1990s, the following piano brands were produced and owned by the Wurlitzer name: Apollo, Julius Bauer, Melville Clark, De Kalb, Farney, Kingston, Student Butterfly Clavichord, Kurtzmann, Merriam, Schaff Bros., Spinette Strad and Underwood. Many instruments were imported from Europe and sold under the Wurlitzer company name.īy 1914, when Rudolph Wurlitzer died, the company footprint had expanded across the United States, with factories for building vertical pianos in North Tonawanda, NY, and grand pianos in de Kalb, Illinois. Well in the 1900s, Wurlitzer Company was known for the variety of instruments they sold, including pianos, organs, jukeboxes, melodeons and more. Dating back to the 17th century, the Wurlitzer family history started with Hans Andreas Wurlitzer, a renowned violin maker. The Wurlitzer Company was established in 1856 by Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer, who started the business from a long family foundation of instrument making. Piano production by Wurlitzer began in 1880 in the Wurlitzer factory in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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