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 Bass clarinet, Basset horn, clarinets in D, B♭, A, high G + E♭, Basset clarinet in A (German system / Oehler) | |
| Genre | instrument makers |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1959 by Herbert Wurlitzer |
| Headquarters | |
Key people | Fritz-Ulrich Wurlitzer, Bernd Wurlitzer |
| Products | Clarinets, the whole family in Oehler system and Reform Boehm system |
Number of employees | 20 |
| Website | Wurlitzer clarinets |
The company Herbert Wurlitzer Manufaktur für Holzblasinstrumente GmbH is a German clarinet manufacturer based in Neustadt an der Aisch, Bavaria with a second production site in Markneukirchen, Saxony. 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.[1][2]
- ^ Eric Hoeprich, The Clarinet, Yale University Press, 2008, p. 211, 271, 367
- ^ Gisbert 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)