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If you live outside our local delivery zone or need an old piano removed when you receive your new piano, call 877-635-1699 for a quote.

It features 100 virgin wool reinforced hammers, German Roslau strings, and has a speaking length of 45 14 on the longest bass string for a full bass on a piano of this size.

The soundboard also has an area of 1,662 square inches for rich tone.

The furniture is very attractive with sculpted music rack and brass ferrule on the feet.

This instrument will provide a good solid piano for someone who wants to advance their piano studies while offering an attractive addition of furniture to your home.

This is a one owner piano from a beautiful home in West Hartford, CT.

Unusual two-toned mahogany finish with minor doily imprint marks on one part of the lid.

Original ivories are perfect Rare circumstance, we have the original matching bench (see photo below) in excellent condition.

Later, plants were opened in Holly Springs, Mississippi (1961), Logan, Utah (1970) and Hullhorst, West Germany (1960).

Subjects: Industries--Illinois--DeKalb, Jukeboxes, Musical Instruments, Organs, Piano, World War II, Wurlitzer Company.

The microfilm was retained by the Center along with folders containing histories, photographs, and the Wurlitzer Centennial Edition of the DeKalb Chronicle.

The six volumes contained in Box 2 and 4 folders in Box 3, and a CD of theatre organ music, were donated after the transfer of the collection to the Smithsonian.

Collection Historical Note The Wurlitzer Company began in 1856 when Rudolph Wurlitzer, a Cincinnati bank clerk, sold 700 worth of musical instruments he had bought from family and friends in Germany.

The business was incorporated in Ohio in 1890 under the name The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company.

For the first fifty years, Wurlitzer was primarily a retail instrument business operating out of its Cincinnati Store headquarters.

Although fire destroyed the companys headquarters in 1904, a new building was completed in time to celebrate Wurltizers fiftieth anniversary in 1906.

In 1908, the Wurlitzer Company bought the DeKleist Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company in North Tonawanda, New York.

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Manufacturing Company continued production of automatic musical instruments: player pianos, military bands and pianorchestras.

In 1910, the Wurlitzer Company bought the Hope-Jones Organ Company and began to manufacture unit-orchestra pipe organs at their North Tonawanda plant.

These were pipe organs equipped with bells, gongs, horns and sirens.

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They became known as Mighty Wurlitzers and provided the musical background in silent movie houses all over the world and were also built for churches and private homes.

In 1919, Wurlitzer bought the Melville-Clark Piano Company of DeKalb, Illinois.

Wurlitzer pianos were then manufactured at the DeKalb facilities under a variety of names: the Apollo Piano Company, the DeKalb Piano Company and the Wurlitzer Grand Piano Company.

Each name designated a different quality, price range and style.

With the decline of sales during the 1920s and 1930s, production of automatic musical instruments ceased until the manufacture of the first juke box in 1934.

For a brief time, radios and refrigerators were made by the Wurlitzer controlled All-American Mohawk Corporation.

Many of the Wurlitzer retail stores were, at that time, in bad locations and needed repairs.

The solutions to these problems came about with a reorganization of the company in 1935.

With the reorganization, many retail stores were sold, piano manufacturing was consolidated in DeKalb and many subsidiaries were dissolved or absorbed completely into the Wurlitzer Company.

The companys defense production efforts were recognized in 1943 and 1944 when its North Tonawanda and DeKalb plants received the Army-Navy E Award.

In 1946, peacetime production resumed and the Wurlitzer Company introduced two new instruments: the electric organ (1947) and the electric piano (1954).

That same year a new plant at Corinth, Mississippi, was completed.