The Wurlitzer 200A

So, last night I broke out my dilapidated, worn out, legless Wurlitzer 200A that's sitting in the closet in the music room. It's rusted, full of cobwebs and dirty. I found it about 4 years ago when I was at my cousin's farm. It was sitting on the floor of the barn covered with pieces of broken wood. No way to treat a valuable musical instrument! I couldn't believe my eyes when I found it, it's such a classic keyboard and one of the very first electric pianos.

I remember when I first got it, I tried to play it and a bunch of keys didn't work. But when I tried it yesterday, everything amazingly worked and it sounds incredible! This morning I stopped up at the hardware store to get some compressed air and electronics cleaner so I can get this thing looking snazzy. I still need to by a sustain pedal for it; looking online they were like $250...but after further investigating I found one for $46, still expensive but necessary. I also need to get the rust off the legs and buy new screws.

Check out some of the songs that feature this instrument:

Alan Parsons Project - "Eye In The Sky"
Beck - "Where It's At"
The Black Crowes - "Remedy"
Boston - "My Destination"
Chicago - "Feelin' Stronger Every Day"
Daft Punk - "Digital Love"
David Gray/Lost Songs/Wurlitzer
Gov't Mule - "Soulshine"
Joni Mitchell - "Woodstock"
Little Feat - "Long Distance Love", "Got No Shadow", "Romance Dance"
Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
Muse - "Feeling Good"
Neil Young - "The Old Laughing Lady", "See The Sky About To Rain"
Panic at the Disco - "Mad As Rabbits"
Pink Floyd - "Breathe","Money", "Time"
Quarterflash - "Harden My Heart"
Queen - "You're My Best Friend"
Ray Charles - "What'd I Say"
Sheryl Crow - "The Book", "All I Wanna Do"
Rick Springfield - "Souls"
Steely Dan - "Godwhacker", "Do It Again," "Jack Of Speed", "Two Against Nature", "Your Sufjan Stevens - "Chicago"
Sun Ra (1956 first Wurlitzer record including) - "India", "Dreams Come True"
Supertramp - "The Logical Song", "Dreamer", "Goodbye Stranger", "Lady" and countless other songs.
Three Dog Night - "Mama Told Me Not To Come"; "Joy to the World"
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Breakdown", "You Don't Know How It Feels"
Tori Amos - "Tombigbee", "Pancake", "Strange Little Girl"
Usher - "Thats What Its Made For"
Van Halen - "And the Cradle Will Rock"

Thank you Wikipedia! I'm sure you'll see some CRV on that list eventually.

So, yeah, it's a great sound and I'm excited to start playing it more. I also bought Camann's desk yesterday so now I have a good workspace up in the music room. Rock on!