Rudolph Wurlitzer, a German expat in Cincinnati, toyed with acoustic pianos long before his company’s bells-and-whistles darling bobbed up in the dress circle. While the first customer’s nose ...
handed multimillion-dollar aviation subcontracts to ex-jukebox makers Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. and ex-civilian producer Singer Sewing Machine, gave full plane contracts to a batch of war contract ...
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...
The Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ is one of the largest surviving instruments of its kind in Europe. In 1929, Werner Ferdinand von Siemens, the grandson of the company founder, acquired it from the ...