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The best way to get a general sense of what instruments are worth (after restoration) is by comparing them against what similar instruments are selling for in the real market. Much of the credit goes to education вЂ“ folks are now able to go to the internet and learn about what they have, often encouraged to invest and preserve their instruments.

Over the past two decades, we have seen the value of antique pianos and organs nearly double across the board. Restored instruments sell for high dollars вЂ“ original, unrestored instruments simply do not. If you invested in having the automobile restored to make it a show car, you could then expect it to sell for a tidy sum вЂ“ likely at a nice profit after your investment.

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If your instrument was an antique automobile sitting on blocks, full of rust and ruining due to neglect, you wouldnвЂ™t expect it to fetch a very high price. That was the end of the Wurlitzer company.Restoration is not cheap, but it is necessary to make any instrument worth top dollar. Nevertheless, no more jukeboxes were produced anymore.ДЇinally, the insolvency proceedings were again initiated in 2015 and implemented in March 2016. However already a month later, in February 2013, bankruptcy is filed but it can be averted in the autumn of that year. In January 2013, Deutsche Wurlitzer GmbH continued independently when venture investors saved it from bankruptcy and bought it from Gibson. Jukeboxes bearing the Wurlitzer name were in production until the company ceased manufacturing in 2013. In 2006 Gibson also purchased Deutsche Wurlitzer GmbH. Wurlitzer was then bought in 2001 by Gibson Guitar Corporation, a well known bran for Guitars. At that time the largest piano manufacturer in the USA, however Baldwin was already facing revenue problemsДЄnd could not retain its market position. Wurlitzer continued producing pianos and was purchased by the Baldwin Piano Company in 1985. The jukebox brand and trade-marks were sold to Wurlitzers own German subsiderary: Deutsche Wurlitzer GmbH. Wurlitzer held on into the '70s but then when demand for jukeboxes faded, so did the Wurlitzer factory,Д®ventually going out of business in 1974. To bring back what was once the greatest jukebox manufacturer ever. With only 1,600 units produced, the effort wasn't enough After nearly giving up on jukeboxes in the early '60sДЄnd early '70s, Wurlitzer gave one last gasp in 1973 and tried to make a nostalgic-looking jukebox called the '1050'.

Operators in the early 1950s considered the new Wurlitzer mechanisms overly complex and not particularly reliable. Wurlitzer made many attempts toД¬ompete with this by engineering new mechanisms for its machines, but never really caught up with Seeburg's domination of the jukebox market. Seeburg introduced a new mechanism that held 50 records and could play both sides, yielding a true 100-select jukebox. At that point, Wurliter's mechanism could handle up to 24 records, Wurlitzer dominated the coin-operated phonograph business until the introduction of the 45 rpm record. Right: Farny Reginald Wurlitzer (1883 - вЂ 1972) Homer Earl Capehart (1897 - вЂ 1979) It did, and by 1937, Wurlitzer had sold over 100,000 phonographs. The repeal of prohibition was imminent and the demand for coin-operated music was about to explode. Wurlitzer would manufacture a coin phonograph engineered by 'Erickson' called the In 1933, Rudolph's youngest son, Farny, entered into a deal with Homer Capehart. The depression of 1929 nearly put the company out of business. As the demand for theater organs and automatic pianos weakened, Wurlitzer went through some difficult times. Rudolph Wurlitzer died in 1914, leaving the business to Types of automatic instruments were manufactured at a large facility in North Tonawanda, N.Y., where the factory still stands today. Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, Wurlitzer became famous for the large theater organs that created sound for silent films. It wasn't long before Rudolph attached a coin slot to a player piano and literally started the coin-operated music boom of the late 1800s. Soon he became the largest instrument supplier in America and through a chain of retail stores in Chicago he started marketing a

Rudolph Wurlitzer came to the United States in 1853 and started an import business selling The Wurlitzer family started buying and selling musical items in Saxony as far back as 1659.

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