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The company Herbert Wurlitzer Manufaktur für Holzblasinstrumente GmbH is a German
Herbert Wurlitzer escaped from East Germany in 1959 with his family into the Federal Republic of Germany. Here he built a manufactory for the production of clarinets, as he had learned from his father in Erlbach,
( PDF (German)).Jane Ellsworth, A Dictionary for the Modern Clarinetist, 2014, p. 120 He managed the company until his death in 1989 together with his wife Ruth Wurlitzer. Ruth Wurlitzer continued the business together with Bernd Wurlitzer, her son-in-law as commercial director and her son Frank-Ulrich as artistic director. Since the death of Ruth in September 2014 the company is run only by Frank-Ulrich and Bernd Wurlitzer.
Presentation of a Wurlitzer Reform Boehm Clarinet
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clarinet
The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell.
Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...
manufacturer based in Neustadt an der Aisch
Neustadt an der Aisch (, ; officially: ''Neustadt a.d. Aisch'') is a small town of around 13,000 inhabitants in the northern part of Bavaria (Germany), within the Franconian administrative region Middle Franconia.
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, Bavaria
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with a second production site in Markneukirchen
Markneukirchen () is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in Saxony, Germany, close to the Czech Republic, Czech border. It lies in the Elster Mountains (part of the Fichtel Mountains), southeast of Plauen, and northeast of Aš (Czech Republic) ...
, Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...
. It was founded in 1959 by Herbert Wurlitzer. His father Fritz Wurlitzer operated since the 1930s in Erlbach, now a district of Markneukirchen, a manufactory for the production of clarinets. The company W. Wurlitzer makes clarinets with German System ( Oehler fingering system) and with the " Reform Boehm system", developed by Fritz Wurlitzer in the late 1940s, an instrument with Boehm fingering system and the sound of an Oehler Clarinet.Eric Hoeprich, The Clarinet, Yale University Press, 2008, p. 211, 271, 367Gisbert König, ''Eine Reise durch die deutsche Klarinettenbaulandschaft'' (''A journey through the German clarinet making landscape'') in 'rohrblatt - die Zeitschrift für Oboe, Klarinette, Saxophon und Fagott (the magazine for oboe, clarinet, saxophone and bassoon) 38 (2023), vol. 3 p. 107 ff, here p. 112 f Herbert Wurlitzer (in German)
Biography
Herbert Wurlitzer escaped from East Germany in 1959 with his family into the Federal Republic of Germany. Here he built a manufactory for the production of clarinets, as he had learned from his father in Erlbach, Vogtland
Vogtland (; ) is a region spanning the German states of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia and north-western Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It overlaps with and is largely contained within Euroregio Egrensis. The name alludes to the former leadershi ...
.Mayor of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch: Herbert Wurlitzer Clarinets – From Neustadt an der Aisch into the concert halls of the world( PDF (German)).Jane Ellsworth, A Dictionary for the Modern Clarinetist, 2014, p. 120 He managed the company until his death in 1989 together with his wife Ruth Wurlitzer. Ruth Wurlitzer continued the business together with Bernd Wurlitzer, her son-in-law as commercial director and her son Frank-Ulrich as artistic director. Since the death of Ruth in September 2014 the company is run only by Frank-Ulrich and Bernd Wurlitzer.
The enterprise
The extensive family Wurlitzer (there is also an American branch) has been manufacturing musical instruments for several generations. The company Herbert Wurlitzer was initially located in Bubenreuth / Bavaria and moved its headquarters in 1964 to Neustadt an der Aisch. In 1992, the company built another production site in Markneukirchen, where numerous musical instrument makers are based. In this context, it also took over the former workshop of Fritz Wurlitzer, which was integrated into the new production after some time. The company produces almost all clarinets of the clarinet family (with the exception of the very rare double bass clarinet and the contralto clarinet). All instruments are made only of wood, mainly grenadilla wood, but also cocobolo and boxwood are available. They are made exclusively to order individually. Herbert Wurlitzer acquired with his company a significant position nationally and internationally.The main exporting countries are the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Japan. There was and still is a low distribution in the USA. Wurlitzer clarinets are represented in Germany and some other countries in numerous cultural orchestras.References
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*Presentation of a Wurlitzer Reform Boehm Clarinet
Clarinet systems Clarinet makers Companies based in Bavaria Companies of Germany {{Commonscat