The firm's violin department, independently directed by Rembert Wurlitzer (1904-63) from 1949, became a leading international centre for rare string instruments. In 1909 the company began making harps they were far more durable than European prototypes, and from 1924 to the 1930s eight acclaimed models were available. From importing musical instruments it turned in the 1880s to marketing automated instruments, including disc-changer machines and coin-operated pianos the РІР‚ВMighty WurlitzerРІР‚в„ў theatre organ was introduced in 1910, followed by the successful coin-operated phonograph, or juke-box (1934-74). Started in Cincinnati in 1853 by Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer (1831-1914), it was directed successively by his three sons until 1941, when it moved to Chicago. Wurlitzer 805 electronic organ with Orbit III Monophonic Synthesizer (mini keyboard)Р”Р„merican firm of instrument makers and dealers. The building's current owner is in the midst of a vast restoration project and has recently replaced the original Wurlitzer sign with a new one.Р”Вeutsche Wurlitzer, owner of the Wurlitzer Jukebox and Vending Electronics trademark, was acquired by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. The building is now home to a wide array of tenants ranging from an indoor batting cage to private apartments to various light industrial and commercial businesses. The factory, in the same complex as that of the Eugene DeKleist company (another maker of band organs and orchestrions, acquired by Wurlitzer), is in North Tonawanda, New York, USA. Over time Wurlitzer changed to producing only organs and jukeboxes, but it no longer produces either.

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to simply as Wurlitzer, is an American company, formerly a producer of stringed instruments, woodwind, brass instruments, theatre organs, band organs, orchestrions, electronic organs, electric pianos and jukeboxes. The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company logo on a pipe organ.

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