In 2005 I ordered from the ATOS a book, The Wurlitzer Pipe Organ, An Illustrated History, Opus 1662. It tells about the Wurlitzer family and their business for a manufacture of theatre organs and coin operated music machines. The opus number is a representative of every theatre organ Wurlitzer made and sold, 2234 altogether. My book refers to the theatre organ in the Strand Theatre, Syracuse in 1927.
I was a little surprised when I found that also in Finland has been published a book, Tulenheimot, Urkujentekijöitä ja yhteiskunnan rakentajia (Organ builders and social arrangers), telling about the Thulé family and its members during four generations, and their living in Finland. The first member was Swedish Anders Thulé who was working in an organ factory in Stockholm and in 1839 he got an order to build his first organs in Finland. He moved over to Finland, and later settled here permanently and started to build organs on his own account. This story differs only a little from the Wurlitzer story if we are considering it from the family point of view. But still there are some similarities also in business. At first Anders and his crew were building organs at their erecting locations but gradually he improved their working circumstances towards factory like manufacturing, and finally Kangasalan Urkutehdas, the Kangasala Organ factory, was born. Soon after that some of the family members changed their names to Finnish Tulenheimo.
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