There were models designated as the model 100,110,and 111,but whether or not they were produced or only prototypes is up for debate.Pictures of these models do exist,and the Wurlitzer EP Service manuals do state that the Wurlitzer was introduced in 1954,not 1955.The model 106 was a later model,not an early model.
The instrument entered production in 1955 as the EP-112 and continued to be produced in various forms until about 1982 when production of the EP-200A ceased. Inventor Benjamin Miessner had designed an amplified conventional upright piano in the 1930s, and Wurlitzer used his electrostatic pickup design, but replaced the strings with struck steel reeds. A mechanical sustain pedal similar to that of a conventional piano is fitted. Tone production in all models comprises a single steel reed for each key, activated by a miniature version of a conventional grand piano action and forming part of an electrostatic pickup system using a DC voltage of 170v. The Wurlitzer piano is usually a 64-note instrument whose keyboard range is from A an octave above the lowest note of a standard 88-note piano to the C an octave below the top note of an 88-note piano.
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