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As Joni Mitchell writes in her the lyrics to an old song looking back: Here, too, the Wurlitzer name became branded in our minds as the word synonymous with the Jukebox. Especially significant in small towns where very little live, musical public social entertainment could be found, the Jukebox brought professionally recorded music into the lives of an entire post war generation. They quickly became a mandatory fixture in every kind of public social scene, save libraries and churches. *At least in name, the Wurlitzer Jukebox enjoyed an almost ubiquitous presence in the 1950s and 1960s. Read Historical Statistics on the Wurlitzer & Co.Michael will be glad to help you assess the prospects of repair and/or complete restoration of your Wurlitzer piano. If you have a piano with the Wurlitzer name and would like to discuss the prospects of restoration, refinishing, refurbishing or repair, please contact Michael Sweeney directly. The pianos made by Wurlitzer & Company have stood their ground over the years, and even though the Baldwin Piano Company now owns the Wurlitzer name, it is still respected enough for Baldwin to use the Wurlitzer name on certain lines. In this way, Wurlitzer pianos were good enough, made with wood and steel from the U.S.

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The professional musicians and students would be using other, better built pianos to perform on, but most likely they would find their hands playing a Wurlitzer in a practice room or at a cocktail party from time to time. The idea was to have a Wurlitzer grand piano, baby grand piano, upright, studio or spinet in every living room of every old and new home in the United States. These pianos were not in league, nor did they intend to be in league with the Steinways, the Mason & Hamlins, or perhaps even the Chickerings. The grand pianos made by Wurlitzer during the 20th century were considered to be 'work horse' type pianos, so called 'commercial' pianos along the lines of a Kimball Company piano or a Cable Company piano.

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And thus, in the mid 1930s, Wurlitzer hit the American piano market by storm with the spinet, a piano with a full-sized keyboard and a full set of strings, and yet, standing a mere 36 inches high.

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Indeed, especially for the Boomer age, in soda shops and famica tabled cafes all across America, the Wurlitzer Jukebox, looking more organic and alive than machine like, would collect our dimes and quarters for decades to come.*īesides the grand connotations associated with the Wurlitzer name, it just might be an altogether different reason why the Wurlitzer name is so thoroughly branded into our collective brain: Wurlitzer is the first American piano company to open the general, middle class, increasingly urban American public to the prospect of a well made, good sounding, sturdy, but small - even portable - piano that can fit in a smaller space, like a mid-town city apartment. It would be the name that would conjure in our hearts and minds, the live stage and the exciting new technologies emerging in a hopeful new century, including silent film and the recording industry. Nevertheless Wurlitzer & Company became such a magical name that now, in movies, in conversation, between actors and musicians, Wurlitzer is still easily associated with the great halls and spectacular musical events of a rapidly growing, prideful country. Of course, not each and every one of the popular, attention stealing instruments was manufactured by Wurlitzer & Company.

The name conjures memories and day dreams about the big American city, its society life and the intense and masterful productions surrounding the spectacular pipe organs in the upscale theaters of city centers all across the United States. In other words, if not magical, Wurlitzer is certainly somewhat mythical. Not just with consumers, but also with authors and historians, the name, Wurlitzer, is usually mentioned in the historical accounts of American piano manufacturing, but even more, the name has come to mean a whole historical atmosphere. Perhaps there's something magical about the sound of the name itself, but Wurlitzer is a name that has truly branded itself into the American imagination, and even the American dialect. | Pianos We've Restored | Wurlitzer & Company, Cincinnati | Featured Pianos | Piano Company Profiles | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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