In digest 970527, Matthew Caulfield wrote:

> Wurlitzer sold a player harp.  It was exceptional in that it was not
> made by them.  The music rolls for the harp were also made by the same
> Engelhardt company which manufactured the harp and therefore didn't use
> the standard Wurlitzer hole spacing of .1227 inch, Wurlitzer's unique
> spacing that makes it so difficult to copy.

Actually, both the harp and the rolls were manufactured by the Whitlock
Company of Rising Sun, Indiana.   Farny Wurlitzer "discovered" this
company's harp playing in a Cincinnati cafe and decided to offer it under
the Wurlitzer label.  Two styles were produced, the plain case style A
and later,  the harp-shaped case style B.  Both style harps sounded more
like an acoustical guitar than a harp.  Mechanical fingers plucked each
string and it had a tune indicator wheel.

In the mid 1980's David Boehm sold reproductions of the style A.  I
understand his re-engineering of the plucking mechanism and the quality
of the sound boards put them in high demand - so much so that owners of
original machines ordered replacement parts from him.

S. K. Goodman