Was it due to its “bubbly” design or the fact that our boys were back from war and deserving of celebration? No one will ever know. It was designed by Paul Fuller in 1946 and it took two years for Wurlitzer to sell 56,000 units. This Wurlitzer jukebox was more affectionately known as The Bubbler, thanks to its arched tubes framing the shape of the jukebox that lit up and bubbled. Here are some of the most popular models. While Wurlitzer was very well known for its musical instruments, they were much more well-known in their later years for jukeboxes. For a time, Wurlitzer still sold replacement parts, but the company has since dissolved. However, they stopped making pianos in 2009 and jukeboxes in 2013. Later models are equipped with CD players while some are capable of iPod connectivity. It would be ten more years before Gibson would also purchase Deutsche Wurlitzer, Wurlitzer Jukebox, and Vending Electronics trademarks. and all Wurlitzer assets were sold to the Gibson Guitar Corporation. manufacturing facilities and the organ brands were acquired by Baldwin Piano & Organ in 1988, at which time the piano manufacturing also moved overseas. They sold and moved their manufacturing operations to Germany in 1973. They purchased several other companies that made appliances, radios, and carnival rides. In the 1960s, they made studio, console, spinet, and grand pianos. In 1947, the company evolved with technology and began making electronic organs, electric pianos, and jukeboxes. As the popularity of fairs in the 1880s grew, they needed more mechanical rides with louder music, and the fairground organ was the perfect solution. military with musical instruments during the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, but they did begin producing their own pianos in 1880 and sold them in their retail stores in Chicago.Įxpansion came quickly in the form of player pianos, pipe organs, and band organs. Their success began with military contracts to provide the U.S. They began importing brass, woodwind, and stringed instruments from Germany and sold them in the United States. The Wurlitzer company was founded in 1853 by a German immigrant named Rudolph Wurlitzer. From musicals like Footloose to plenty of good ole country music songs, the jukebox is well-known by even those who have never used one.
They were huge during the Big Band era, but they’ve been referenced an innumerable amount of times in pop culture as well. Wurlitzer is one of the biggest names in jukeboxes in the world.
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