Spread-Cheeks Wurlie

[Robert Goodale]

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I worked on one of these a long time ago.  It was in about the same 
shape as you described and I opted not to try and get inside due to lack 
of customer budget.  These weren't much of a piano, I think just the old 
typical spinet like a million others Wurlitzer made.  The case however 
was exceptionally unique and I'm sure very few of these were made.  If 
your customer ever decides to unload it cheep/free and you have the room 
it might make a nice collector piece if you can afford to store it for 
another 25 years.  I would be willing to bet there is less than 100 of 
them still in existence.

Rob Goodale, RPT
Las Vegas, NV

Z! Reinhardt wrote:

> Hi Everyone!
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> Just for the amusement value ....
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> Have any of you tried servicing a "Juke-Box" style Wurlitzer spinet?  
> Shall we say politely, that getting the thing opened up for servicing 
> was counter-intuitive at best.  When all was said and done short of 
> smashing case parts, the sides which curved around and formed about 
> 2/3 of the front swung outward giving it the "spread-cheeks" look.  
> Comically strange.
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> Too bad the piano itself was nothing to write home about -- bad 
> pinblock, blown-out bridges, etc. ... clinically dead but it was an 
> heirloom so I did what I could to improve it without blowing out the 
> budget.  (Sorry -- I didn't have a camera with me.  Maybe next time.)
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> Z! Reinhardt  RPT
> Ann Arbor  MI
> diskladame@provide.net <mailto:diskladame@provide.net>
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