In 1924, Wurlitzer published a forty-page catalogue of their different models with commendations from famous harpists. The company eventually moved to North Tonawanda, New York, and, in 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, stopped building harps, although they continued to make other instruments. Later the harp production moved to Chicago to be overseen by a former Lyon & Healy craftsman Emil O. Then, in 1909, responding to a need he saw for a harp which could better withstand the American climate and the demands of modern music, Wurlitzer built his first harp. Founded in 1856 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Rudolph Wurlitzer, a German immigrant, the Wurlitzer Company at first built a variety of instruments, including clarinets, organs and auto harps. The year 2009 marks the hundredth anniversary of the production of the first Wurlitzer pedal harp.
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