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Wurlitzer & Co. was established in 1856 by Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer in New York, shortly after
immigrating from Europe. He started out by importing German pianos. By 1861 he had been
successful enough to build a new factory in Cincinnati, Ohio. During these early years, Wurlitzer
manufactured organs and melodeons, but imported the majority of his other instruments from
European makers which were sold under the Wurlitzer label in the United States. Wurlitzer actually
built his first piano in about 1880, and by the turn-of-the-century Wurlitzer was specializing in some of
the first coin-operated player pianos and orchestrions manufactured and sold in the U.S. By the
1900s Wurlitzer had factories in DeKalb, Illinois (grand pianos) and North Tonawanda, NY (upright
pianos). In 1985 Wurlitzer purchased the Chickering name. By 1988, Wurlitzer was sold to Baldwin,
and manufacturing resumed at the Baldwin plants. In the 1980s to 1996 Wurlitzer also had a line of
uprights and grands manufactured by Korean firm, Young Chang; also a J & C Fischer (and later
Kranich & Bach) line of uprights made in China by the Beijing Piano Co. From 1990 to 1994 the 5 foot
Wurlitzer Grand was manufactured by the Baldwin Piano Co. By 1996 production of Wurlitzer grands
were being manufactured by Samick in Korea. In 2001, the Baldwin, Chickering and Wurlitzer names
were purchased by the Gibson musical instrument company. Wurlitzer upright pianos were then
discontinued in 2003, essentially replaced by the Ellington, and then Hamilton line (made in China) in
2004. Grand pianos were then being manufactured in China by the Sejung Co. according to Baldwin
specifications, using Baldwin and Chickering plate and scale designs.

Baldwin's Wurlitzer line discontinued in the USA in 2008.

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