In 1982 it was given to the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, where it was restored completely and installed in the museum by Eberhard Friedrich Walcker GmbH & Co. From February 1963 to December 1963 Marvin E Merchant, a Berlin-stationed G.I., repaired the organ at his own expense. The Mighty Wurlitzer survived the war, but was seriously damaged in 1962 by a fire, which was caused by a careless cigarette. At the end of World War II the organ and the concert hall became property of the German state. The large four-manual, 16-rank Mighty Wurlitzer type 250 special was purchased by Werner Ferdinand von Siemens in 1929 and installed in the Siemens Concert Hall in August of that year. Mighty Wurlitzer type 250 ( Berlin Musical Instrument Museum)Īnother example of the large-scale Mighty Wurlitzer can be found in the Berlin Musical Instrument Museum. Wurlitzer organs still in their original locations include: While Denver's is the typical "master-slave" system, Radio City is the only surviving original Wurlitzer installation to have two identical and completely independent consoles playing the same organ. It, along with the organ at the Paramount Theatre in Denver Colorado are the only Wurlitzer installations still in use that have dual consoles. The Music Hall instrument is actually a concert instrument, capable of playing a classical as well as non-classical repertoire. The largest one originally built was the four-keyboard / 58-rank (set of pipes) instrument at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. A number were shipped overseas, with the largest export market being the United Kingdom. Moving the business to their North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory, from 1914 to 1942, Wurlitzer built over 2,200 pipe organs: 30 times the rate of Hope-Jones company, and more theatre organs than the rest of the theatre organ manufacturers combined. But shortly after merging his organ business with Wurlitzer in 1914, he committed suicide in Rochester, New York, frustrated by his new association with the Wurlitzer company, it is said.
īetween 18 his company employed 112 workers at its peak, producing 246 organs. He also used a system of unification, which multiplied considerably the number of stops relative to the number of ranks. Hope-Jones organs were also noted for such innovations as stoptabs instead of drawknobs and very high wind pressures of 10″ – 50″ to imitate orchestral instruments. The Tibia eventually became a staple of theater organs. Īmong his sound innovations were a kind of electro-pneumatic action, the Diaphone and the modern Tibia Clausa with its strong 8′ flute tone.
Baldwin outsourced their Wurlitzer production and stopped placing the Wurlitzer name on pianos at the end of 2009. The Wurlitzer Company came to an end in 1988, when Wurlitzer was bought by the Baldwin Piano Company. Among Wurlitzer's electronic instruments, beginning with electric reed organs in 1947, the most important have been the fully electronic organs, especially the two-manual-and-pedals spinet type (from 1971 with synthesizer features) for domestic use. 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 that were far more durable than European prototypes, and from 1924 to the 1930s eight acclaimed models were available. The "Mighty Wurlitzer" theatre organ was introduced in 1910, followed by the successful coin-operated phonograph, or juke-box (1934–74).
From importing musical instruments it turned in the 1880s to marketing automated instruments, including disc-changer machines and coin-operated pianos. Wurlitzer started in Cincinnati in 1856 by Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer (1831–1914). It was directed successively by his three sons until 1941, when it moved to Chicago. Wurlitzer Model 805 electronic organ with Orbit III Monophonic Synthesizer (upper key)
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