The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company is a brand of organ, and Jukeboxes and was first famous for manufacturing the finest quality band organs with self arranged music rolls which played at amusments such as carousels and skating rinks. Later Wurlitzer had the idea of a huge organ that could be played in 1920's theaters for silent movies. It was often rigged up to other instruments in the room that could be played as the organist at the console pulled out various stops. Known as the Mighty Wurlitzer for its powerful ability to swell and induce the right feeling in the audience of the silent film.
Because of its capability to play instruments around the room in synchrony and manipulate the audience's feelings, the term "Mighty Wurlitzer" has been used to describe the disinformation networks used by governments.
Wurlitzer is the common name for band organs or orchestrions, vintage band organs and jukeboxes produced by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company.
Wurlitzer's abandoned factory, in the same complex as that of the Eugene DeKleist company (another maker of band organs and orchestrions, acquired by Wurlitzer), is in North Tonawanda, New York, USA.
Perhaps the most famous instruments Wurlitzer built were its pipe organs (from 1914 until around 1940), which were installed in theaters, homes, churches, and other public places.
By the time the first 165 band organ was manufactured, the company must have been equipping its organs only with the long roll tracker frame, because the 165 roll was not issued in two different formats at any time; the ten-tune roll was standard from the beginning.
If this theory is correct it should follow that owners who purchased their 165 band organs in the mid-1920's or later should not have been able to purchase any of the popular-tune 6500 rolls, but should have been able to purchase evergreen 6500 rolls.
The reason we suggest that Wurlitzer might have begun with roll 6505 is that there are a few cases we know of where the company began a roll series with the fifth number in the series.
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