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Reverend Rhythm · Post by **Reverend Rhythm** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:32 pm

Squids wrote:Can't handle it?

I'm having a hard time....

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:49 pm

Squids wrote:Okay, I will give you another hint. It has a Wurlitzer on it and also some percussion. But, I guarantee I just threw you off!

Is it vintage drum boxes? Wurlitzer made those as well...

Armadillo · Post by **Armadillo** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 3:57 pm

Squids wrote:Can't handle it?

pan flute sounds good, wurlitzer erm....less good. Well you did ask

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:14 pm

It also has very nice stringed instruments on it. But, as I said, it is not an ethnic collection although it has some in it.

Reverend Rhythm · Post by **Reverend Rhythm** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:19 pm

Wurlitzer made a pan flute and stringed instruments?

Squids · Post by **Squids** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:36 pm

Reverend Rhythm wrote:Wurlitzer made a pan flute and stringed instruments?

I didn't say that the brand of the pan flute and stringed instruments was Wurlitzer. Wurlitzer made electric pianos and organs.

dougsyo · Post by **dougsyo** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:04 pm

Reverend Rhythm wrote:Wurlitzer made a pan flute and stringed instruments?

Did Wurlitzer make steam calliopes?

Doug

Mr. Tunes · Post by **Mr. Tunes** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:23 pm

i think wurlitzer also made jukeboxes right?
i just checked: they did!

from wikipedia(note how it forgets that they made a wicked electric piano):

Wurlitzer is the common name for band organs or orchestrions, vintage band organs and jukeboxes produced by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company.

Band organ models once produced by Wurlitzer include #103 (Flying Horses Carousel, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, USA), #104, #146A, #146B, #153 (Antique Carousel, Canobie Lake Park, Salem, New Hampshire, USA), #157 (King Arthur's Carrousel, Disneyland Park, Anaheim, California, USA), and #165 (Glen Echo Park Dentzel Carousel, Glen Echo, Maryland, USA). Some orchestrions made by the company can be found at Clark's Trading Post, Lincoln, New Hampshire, USA. The company was acquired by the Baldwin Company.

Eventually, Wurlitzer evolved to the point where it produced only organs and jukeboxes. It no longer produces either. Wurlitzer's abandoned 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.

Perhaps the most famous instruments Wurlitzer built were its pipe organs (from 1914 until around 1940), which were installed in theaters, homes, churches, and other public places. "The Mighty Wurlitzer" theatre organ was designed, originally by Robert Hope-Jones, as a "one man orchestra" to accompany silent movies. In all, Wurlitzer built over 2,200 pipe organs, the largest being the one at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The Music Hall instrument is actually a concert instrument, capable of playing classical as well as non-classical literature. It was the only Wurlitzer installation still in use that has dual identical, but independent consoles. Other large Wurlitzer organs still in their original locations include the Fox Theaters in Saint Louis, Missouri and Detroit, Michigan and Shea's Theater in Buffalo, New York.

In the 1950's, the American Association of Theater Organ Enthusiats (AATOE) was formed to save and preserve theater organs that still remained. (There were other builders as well, including W.W. Kimball Company, M.P. Moller, Inc., Robert Morton Organ Company, George Kilgen and Sons, Marr and Colton Organ Company, the Bartola Musical Instrument Company (Barton Theater Organs), and the Wicks Organ Company.) The AATOE is now know as the American Theater Organ Society. [1]

Technological Innovations

Disconnection of the keyboard from the insturment itself, the first case of object oriented design in musical instuments. The Theatre-Organ horseshoe keyboard.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:28 pm

OT: A friend of mine in high school had two Wurlitzer tonewheel organs plus a home-made Leslie in his house. The one with the rotary was in the living room, the other in the bedroom. They occupied most of the space in the house not already taken up with old rockets (real ones, not toys or models), jukeboxes and amusement machinery, sophisticated large-scale space models, radio and satellite equipment, and so forth. The Gulbransen wouldn't fit, he had to keep it in a garage some other place.

He rarely if ever used the official name for this brand of organ. To him, and to me, they were WURTILIZERS.

hotmitts · Post by **hotmitts** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:31 pm

it's a complete 'Phantom of the Opera' Soundset with pipe organ etc, each copy comes with a mask and a cloak and a few rats

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:31 pm

Meffy wrote:VURTILIZERS.

Hm.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:47 pm

Ach Himmel! Ich hab ein Akzent deutsche?! =o.O=

P.S.: Wurlitzer definitely made jukeboxes. Worked on a LOT of these old guys, many of which were bona fide antiques. Tube amps, wheee... burnt many a pawfinger fixing 'em. *sizzle* (oops, should've used a tube puller)

Blank_Frank · Post by **Blank_Frank** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:52 pm

Squids wrote:I didn't say that the brand of the pan flute and stringed instruments was Wurlitzer. Wurlitzer made electric pianos and organs.

No, but Wurlitzer did also make harps (there's one on GPO)...is it a pan flute and harp collection? Plucked things and blowy things? Can't see the connection myself...

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:54 pm

I know -- it's sampled jukebox mechanism noises (go "doit doit"). The percussion is people pounding on the side when the record got stuck sorry squire, the record got stuck sorry squire, the record got stuck sorry squire, the rec-*WHAM* [reject]

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:56 pm

So Meffy, do you reckon what SR are about to release will be a virtual jukebox, featuring all the greatest hits of the 50s and 60s?

Btw, to truly vurtilize something, I guess you'd need one of these:

Sonic Reality

KVR Audio

New product coming from SR!