# $50 Wurlitzer! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753 "2007-04-19T05:15:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/1 "2007-04-19T05:15:40Z")
Cool! Just saw a classified in the local paper. Who knows what it’ll actually be; it’s described as ‘organ with stool.’ I’m going to have a look in about an hour… but I’ll take the van, just in case. 🙂 Only this morning I was bemoaning the lack of cheesy organ music in my life… Pics to follow, if I do buy it. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/2 "2007-04-19T05:39:24Z")
If you wind up getting it, don’t forget to place a vase of tulips on the cabinet. Because some people like roses on their piano, while others would rather have… ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/3 "2007-04-19T14:18:09Z")
…sigh… All I have is a Little Baldwin… ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/4 "2007-04-19T14:26:28Z")
You’re buying a colon? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/5 "2007-04-19T14:29:54Z")
Ooo - that could be fun! Try playing the riff from Smashmouth’s Walking on the Sun - lots of distorted, over the top Wurlitzer goodness to be had there… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/6 "2007-04-19T14:37:48Z")
[QUOTE=fishbicycle] If you wind up getting it, don’t forget to place a vase of tulips on the cabinet. Because some people like roses on their piano, while others would rather have… [/QUOTE] I prefer suspending it in fermented apple juice. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/7 "2007-04-19T14:40:40Z")
[QUOTE=araminty] ‘organ with stool.’. [/QUOTE] Ewwwwwwwwww! Oh … Wurlitzer. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Mike\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Fun)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/8 "2007-04-19T15:48:02Z")
“Try playing the riff from Smashmouth’s Walking on the Sun …” Which they completely ripped off from Perry & Kingsley’s “The Swan” Sounds more like a Farfisa or Vox than a Wurly… ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Mike\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Fun)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/9 "2007-04-19T15:55:36Z")
“Swan’s Spalshdown,” that is. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/10 "2007-04-19T15:58:58Z")
I got a Kimball Entertainer organ (basically the same as [this one](http://www.organservice.com/images/kimball/kimball651.JPG)) at a yard sale for $25, including the bench. Beyond sounding really good and having a wide variety of different rhythm settings to play along with, it also looks really nice in the living room. But after a while, it developed a problem where the G and C keys on the upper keyboard play an octave higher than they are supposed to. Does anyone know what caused this and how to fix it? ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/11 "2007-04-19T15:59:43Z")
Now \*\*araminty \*\*just needs to change her name to “Wicked Wanda” and she will have an act playing her “Magic Wurlitzer”. ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/12 "2007-04-20T00:31:47Z")
[Woo hoo!](http://img22.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=28822_Wurlitzer_004_122_431lo.jpg) Weirdly, it did have a bowl of (fake) tulips on it - although I don’t think its previous owners would have caught the double entendre. My mate Phil and I liberated it from a horrible old lady’s house. It reeks of smoke - I’ll drag it outside over the weekend and let the sunshine do its work. It’s called a Funmaker 2. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/13 "2007-04-20T00:38:03Z")
That’s great! It’s amazing how cheaply you can find things like that now. A lot of them have analogue drum machines built in that make some killer sounds. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/14 "2007-04-20T02:17:38Z")
I stopped to check out a garage sale a few years ago, and the guy had a black Wurlitzer electric piano marked ‘broken key’ for $10. I bought it thinking I could use the parts, and when I got it home I looked it up and it was a Wurlitzer 200A, which is very much in demand by rock bands. The thing was actually in excellent condition. The broken key turned out to be a metal reed that had broken off. I ordered a new one for $5, installed it, tuned it by filing little bits off it as per the instructions, and sold the piano on eBay for $800. Best garage sale score I ever made. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-wurlitzer/400753/15 "2007-04-20T12:33:28Z")
[QUOTE=araminty] [Woo hoo!](http://img22.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=28822_Wurlitzer_004_122_431lo.jpg) Weirdly, it did have a bowl of (fake) tulips on it - although I don’t think its previous owners would have caught the double entendre. My mate Phil and I liberated it from a horrible old lady’s house. It reeks of smoke - I’ll drag it outside over the weekend and let the sunshine do its work. It’s called a Funmaker 2. 🙂 [/QUOTE] That flat-out rocks. I hope it sounds as cool as it looks!