![]() ![]() ![]() Many of these harps are still in service today. As no surviving instruments have a number below 500, it may be that the numbering system started there. Wurlitzer built harps through serial number 1560. Because the later models don't fall into any specific category, it is thought that they were a composite of parts from various models. In the beginning, the bottom of the column was round, although later, in the 1920's, this part of the column was straight. Wurlitzer designed the A model in two different styles. Probably designed as student models, the smallest Wurlitzer harp, the Model I, had slightly closer string spacing than the larger instruments, and the decorations were relatively inexpensive and plain. ![]() Some rare C models also had a Gothic column, which made them CX or CCX models. As the Gothic column was usually used on the D or DD harps, these models were indicated as DX or DDX harps. BB) meant the harp had an extended soundboard, while a single letter meant a straight soundboard. The models in this catalogue were identified by letters A, B, C, D, G or I. In 1924, Wurlitzer published a forty-page catalogue of their different models with commendations from famous harpists. The company eventually moved to North Tonawanda, New York, and, in 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, stopped building harps, although they continued to make other instruments. Later the harp production moved to Chicago to be overseen by a former Lyon & Healy craftsman Emil O. ![]() Then, in 1909, responding to a need he saw for a harp which could better withstand the American climate and the demands of modern music, Wurlitzer built his first harp. Founded in 1856 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Rudolph Wurlitzer, a German immigrant, the Wurlitzer Company at first built a variety of instruments, including clarinets, organs and auto harps. The year 2009 marks the hundredth anniversary of the production of the first Wurlitzer pedal harp. ![]()
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