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Who Built "Wurlitzer" Pianos?
By Dave Krall

Just curious; who cast the upright plates for Wurlitzer?  Did they have
their own foundry?  (And how many piano companies had their own foundry?
I know Kimball did.)  For the duration of their construction of upright
coin pianos and orchestrions, was there just the one scale of plate
(marked "New Acoustic Scale")?

Thanks
Dave Krall

 [ I believe the rugged coin-op pianos marked "Wurlitzer" were all
 [ manufactured in DeKalb, Illinois, first by Melville Clark Piano Co.
 [ and after 1919 by Wurlitzer.  -- Robbie



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