Wurlitzer

[Ron Nossaman]

>I did a warranty tuning on a new Kawai today, after which, the owner
>asked me if I'd look an an "electric Wurlitzer butterfly piano."   
>Pretty little thing!  With electric "off", it sounds like whatever hammer
>mechanism there is hits metal bars rather than strings.  I couldn't get
>the top off easily to check, though I think it should slide forward.  It
>was on very solidly, as if it were screwed in somehow.
>
>Does anyone know anything of these?
>Are they tuneable?
>Can the "hammers" be replaced or redone?
>Thanks
>les bartlett
>houston


The only ones I've seen were little verticals in piano labs in schools.
Same kind of mechanism.

Ron N