Bach on the Wurlitzer 200
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Someone in my comments wanted to hear what Bach sounded like on the Wurly, and someone else wanted to hear what the internal speakers sounded like on this instrument. So in this video I combined both of those ideas into one, and I hope you enjoy it!
Bach’s genius is that his music can be played on anything and sound great.
I play it on a piano accordion sometimes!
Every time after I learned a piano piece, I always played it on my keyboard with all kinds of sounds just to see what’s going to be like with different voices.
👍🤗👏I also do the same 😁🎹🎼🎵🎶🚴🏼♀️🚴🚴
Nice video! If memory serves, Wurlitzer made regular pianos when I was a kid in the 1940's. The U.S. produced lots of pianos back then.
Yessss, just about everyone I knew had a Wurlitzer Spinet Piano in their living room. They were beautiful, didn't take up too much room, very afforable and had a very nice sound. In the "I Love Lucy" shows (black & white era) you can see a 'spinet' in the background, I think that's what it was, although I do remember seeing (I was about 12 yrs old) a Steinway spinet in ebony at a piano store in Galveston, Texas. The things we remember, I'm 73 yrs olde now.
Wurlitzer also made theatre organs and, of course, jukeboxes. ...I had a keyboard, just like Ray Charles played, when I got out of the Army, that I bought at a pawn shop in Atlanta. I don't remember the exact model, but it was Wurlitzer likely from the mid-1950's, and it was yellow or beige (blonde?) and didn't look as modern as the one in the video. Seems like it's case was made out of particle board, rather than plastic? Anyway, it was just like this one: ruclips.net/video/-lPbxs515DQ/видео.html It had a sustain pedal and skinny screw in legs, that angled out for stability, if I remember right? It was worn out, when I got it and seemed to have been used by a pro, because it had a lot of custom work inside it, such as lead weights added to some of the keys. I bought it, because, unlike organs and many modern keyboards, it had weighted keys, so played somewhat like a piano. I had little money at the time, so a pawn shop worn out Wurlitzer electric piano for $15 was all I could afford. It had a built in tube amp and speaker. Anyway, once I could afford a regular piano, I bought an awesome sounding used 1903 Mason & Hamlin "Upright Grand" (just a rather tall upright), so I salvaged the tube amp out of the Wurlitzer to use as my guitar amp, and threw the rest of it away. If I'd known, that it had a following, and that Ray Charles, who used to play a lot in Atlanta, had recorded or performed with one like mine, I'd have kept it, but this was back, before you could just "google" an object to find out about it. ...For all I know, mine could very well have belonged to
Ray Charles, because the pawn shop, where I'd purchased it, West Side Loan on Peters Street, seemed like it had been there for centuries! ...Probably just 60 or 70 years at the time, but Ray could conceivably have pawned it a final time at West Side Loan, before he really hit it "Big", since it was worn out anyway. ...Probably not, but who knows? That pawn shop had hardly any turnover in it's showroom. I'd gone there for years just to look around, as if it were a museum when I was a kid, even before I was in the Army, and it had pretty much the same items in for sale in it's dusty nook, cranies, and corners, such as wooden legs and other oddities, that they had, before I went in the Army. They owned the property and taxes were cheap in this downtrodden area, so they didn't worry about taking up space with items, that wouldn't sell, like a modern pawn shop with a big lease payment to make every month. This was long before the area became gentrified, and there were still family run businesses on Peters St. West Side Loan was like a pawn shop from the old movies, not like Pawn Stars!
...Sorry, I digress. Got to reminiscing. My life was like a movie, and I was the star. Where has the time gone???
Wow you are so good. This rocks! I wish Bach could have gotten to have played a wurly. You are the next best thing!
Bach played on the Wurlitzer 200 reminds me of the sound of Walter (Wendy) Carlos playing Bach on the Moog Synthesizer.
Thanks for taking my suggestion! Loved the comparison.
Bach concerto for two harspischords in a Wurlitzer and a Rhodes.
I've been watching your videos for the last few weeks and I find them great.
Potential future topic: when should you upgrade your keyboard
I like to hear Bach played on a Hohner Clavinette D6. You should do some videos on that instrument.
It's been hard tracking down an original one in good condition... but if I ever find one, I'll do that!
Wurly is Supertramp
Exactly!
Would you do something like this on a Yamaha CP-70 or CP-80?
If I find one in really good condition.
Glad you mentioned that second piece is an original composition of yours, was wracking my brain what obscure song it is. . .
Very, very beautiful!.
Very enjoyable, the Wurly seems to be well suited to those Bach pieces!
This sounds like it's from a Nintendo Family Computer! Very interesting and 80s nostalgia!
Lovely 🌸💐🌸
james love your piano videos and really enjoy watching the Wurlitzer piano videos, have you ever played an R.M.I Electric piano id love to see a video on that piano
Rick Wakeman used one on The Six Wives Of Henry V111.
I would like to second this.
That's an awesome little keyboard! Sound great!
That second piece that you played was spot on for that instrument.
Anyone know the first pieces name?
is it just me or the fugue on this sounds like music from the Gameboy Pokemon blue ?
Yes it does. Now I really want to hear him play the battle theme or the Pokemon center theme on it.
It can sound even grittier and more electronic, take 4 status register bits in the new (in 1961) DEC PDP-1 computer, wire them through simple R/C filters, and not only do you get polyphonic playback but stereo as well. www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/4020e167eb1dca12eb22bd50b8c1e4f2/
I watch your videos on my PC so, the sound isn't that discriminating but, that Ok, being a musician myself, I still enjoy watching you, your enthusiasm and your love and facination for the instruments and the music! I remember seeing a video of you as a very young child, loved it, it was charming.
The video I didn't know I needed 😉
Out of curiosity, I have a question I've been wondering for ages. Is the Wurlitzer company that made the Wurlitzer 200 the same company that made the infamous Wurlitzer theatre organs??🤔🤔
Yes, and they also made real pianos...one of which is sitting in my LR
@@therealanyaku sorry i'm a little off topic but I'm in Buffalo N.Y. and i drive by the Wurlitzer building alot.. it is such a cool building.. they made so many nice instruments in that place..sad they moved..my friend told me Gibson owns them now :(
ruclips.net/video/9wvJj3J04aE/видео.html Wurlitzer Tonawanda NY
Mr. Shawcross, you can play Bach on a clavinet.
thanks, really nice
Can you please review Korg D1? I'm confused if i should go for pxs 3000 for the kind functions it has or D1 for its action!
Btw that chord progression is from ariana grande's song one last time if i'm not wrong😂
Another vote for such review. With comparison to its bigger brothers like Grandstsge and SV2 will be perfect :).
Hi what song do you play at 5:55? nice video!
Bach would probably not think his music played on a Wurlitzer was much more strange than hearing his music played on a modern piano.
…well, except for the part about electricity. That would probably take him a minute to get used to.
lovely playing. i really think Wurli is much more versatile than people give it credit for!!!
i really enjoy your playing. it is one of the reasons i like to watch your channel. thanks dude. :)ok whoa, whoa... wait a min! o gotta edit this... you really wrote that 2nd progression???!! i though that was some hit song back in the day or something.. i just started watching you a few months back and you seem really decent at the piano..like not the best i've ever heard but you know, definitely up there in the talent dept..do you write music for professional artists? if not you should probably look into that a little.. thanks again for sharing!
Sounds great! I think a like the direct line the most. Give just that little better sound. The fugue sounded really nice although, like someone else pointed out, somewhat like a old game music. Still really funny. Thank you for sharing and playing!
I've already left a comment like this before but I'm not sure if you've seen it; but I thought it'd be neat if you could do more reviews on baby grands that are under 6 feet. Would love to hear your opinion on those! Or maybe a comparison between af 5 foot grand and a 6 foot grand.
I have one coming up between two Shigeru Kawai pianos you might find interesting.
@@ThePianoforever awesome! Super happy to hear that.
I really enjoy your channel, thanks and keep up the awesome work!
An augmented piano or a piano tuned to a non-western scale might be interesting.
I'd love to hear you perform some pieces by bach on a modular synthesizer.
A buchla synthesizer might be interesting to see how you interact with an instrument that does not use a traditional keyboard.
It might be a fun change of pace to feature a few unusual / wacky instruments.
I have the vinyl of Morton Subotnik playing his album "Touch" on the Buchla. It's one of my favorites!
Very unusual instrument! Sounds like a Moog synthesizer! Very much like Switched On Bach!
I think I'm the first to view as I happened on this (32) seconds after having been posted. Sure is different! Maybe musical world is fortunate that Bach didn't have electricity. I enjoyed nevertheless. James, I'm in Asheville, NC (about 75 miles from Bristol, TN). I'm (70) now, but just learning. Thank you!
James I have enjoyed many of your demo videos. But, just about every demo I have heard of a Wurlitzer 200 or a Wurlitzer sample in a modern day keyboard, the demonstrator always has the vibrato turned on. It is a unique aspect of the instrument which ads a certain character to it. However, it is quite annoying to listen to it being left on constantly. I owned and played a Wurlitzer 200 for several years as a full time musician. And, I used the vibrato feature only ocassionally. If one listens to most people demonstrating the Wurlitzer 200 today, you would think that this is a piano that has permanent vibrato which can not be switched off.
Love to see a comparison of the Wurlitzer an the Vsts emulations of the instrument
Much thanks for you pronunciation of Bach which is correct.
Well... at least the first time. It is not "Bak".
Hey James, I have a question for you. Because, I had just recently ran into your channel. But, I am becoming a concert-pianist. But, I am wondering if I should get a Hamburg Steinway, or a Yamaha grand...What would you recommend? Anyways thanks for the awesome videos. You’ve earned a loyal subscriber.
Hamburg Steinways can be very difficult to choose as there are many things to be aware of. There is also some changes going on at Steinway and I have been told, but as of yet not been able to verify that all Steinway pianos are now made in New York and the Hamburg pianos are assembled in Germany. I would not personally purchase a Steinway at this time regardless.
I would choose a Fazioli (the 278 or 308 in particular, although all their models are good) or Yamaha CFX. I would also be looking at Bluthner and C. Bechstein as well.
ThePianoforever thank you so much! I will look more into the Fazioli 278, 308, and the Yamaha CFX. Thank you for your recommendations, and you’re help. Hope this business you have, keeps supporting you. The content you have is awesome! And, I always look forward to your videos, thanks.
Bach on a wurli 200 christ sakes dude play some rock n roll! Heavens to betsey
I always wanted to have a full record of the Well Tempered Harpsichord on electric pianos....
...I had a keyboard, just like Ray Charles played, when I got out of the Army, that I bought at a pawn shop in Atlanta. I don't remember the exact model, but it was Wurlitzer likely from the mid-1950's, and it was yellow or beige (blonde?) and didn't look as modern as the one in the video. Seems like it's case was made out of particle board, rather than plastic? Anyway, it was just like this one: ruclips.net/video/-lPbxs515DQ/видео.html It had a sustain pedal and skinny screw in legs, that angled out for stability, if I remember right? It was worn out, when I got it and seemed to have been used by a pro, because it had a lot of custom work inside it, such as lead weights added to some of the keys. I bought it, because, unlike organs and many modern keyboards, it had weighted keys, so played somewhat like a piano. I had little money at the time, so a pawn shop worn out Wurlitzer electric piano for $15 was all I could afford. It had a built in tube amp and speaker. Anyway, once I could afford a regular piano, I bought an awesome sounding used 1903 Mason & Hamlin "Upright Grand" (just a rather tall upright), so I salvaged the tube amp out of the Wurlitzer to use as my guitar amp, and threw the rest of it away. If I'd known, that it had a following, and that Ray Charles, who used to play a lot in Atlanta, had recorded or performed with one like mine, I'd have kept it, but this was back, before you could just "google" an object to find out about it. ...For all I know, mine could very well have belonged to
Ray Charles, because the pawn shop, where I'd purchased it, West Side Loan on Peters Street, seemed like it had been there for centuries! ...Probably just 60 or 70 years at the time, but Ray could conceivably have pawned it a final time at West Side Loan, before he really hit it "Big", since it was worn out anyway. ...Probably not, but who knows? That pawn shop had hardly any turnover in it's showroom. I'd gone there for years just to look around, as if it were a museum when I was a kid, even before I was in the Army, and it had pretty much the same items in for sale in it's dusty nook, cranies, and corners, such as wooden legs and other oddities, that they had, before I went in the Army. They owned the property and taxes were cheap in this downtrodden area, so they didn't worry about taking up space with items, that wouldn't sell, like a modern pawn shop with a big lease payment to make every month. This was long before the area became gentrified, and there were still family run businesses on Peters St. West Side Loan was like a pawn shop from the old movies, not like Pawn Stars!
...Sorry, I digress. Got to reminiscing. My life was like a movie, and I was the star. Where has the time gone???
With the internal speakers, I hear the same sounds as the original theme for the old TV series "Taxi"?
What is the principle of this instrument? Mechanical, similar to Rhodes, or fully electronic?
It's electro-mechanical. It uses a mechanical action to strike metal reeds, which use electronic pickups to amplify the sound. I have another video on my channel showing the inner workings.
I’m a fan of Scott Joplin. So of course if you worked some of his music in that would be fun for me. I can’t complain if you don’t, there is no way to play everybody’s favorite music.
I bet Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata would sound great on a Wurly
That is a Wurlitzer 200A not a 200
The early Wurlitzers were 200 models, later they were replaced by the 200a. This model has a serial plate on the bottom that clearly states it is a 200.
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