Amati-Denak
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| legal form | sro |
| founding | 1945, as sro 1993 |
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Kraslice Czech Republic
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| management | Václav Hnilička |
| Number of employees | 200 |
| Branch | Wind instruments and accessories |
| Website | www.amati.cz |
The company Amati Denak, sro is a Czech manufacturer of wind instruments based in Kraslice and another manufacturing plant in Hradec Králové .
history
Amati was founded as a cooperative in September 1945. In the course of the expulsion of the German instrument makers from Graslitz after the end of the war, the factories located there were brought together under the umbrella of the “ Amati ” company, those in Schönbach under the name “ Cremona ”. The company names alluded to traditional Italian violin makers. Both companies were later subject to a central trade organization in Prague that managed foreign trade. The German logos were partially retained for export products.
Three years later, in 1948, it was nationalized , in the course of which other traditional companies were incorporated into the company. In the course of time, the place developed into a center of the Czech production of wind and percussion instruments , the latter are no longer made. In the course of privatization in 1993, the company name was given the addition Denak ( De chové ná stroje K raslice = wind instruments Kraslice). In 1994 the then Czech President Václav Havel presented his US counterpart Bill Clinton with an Amati tenor saxophone, which Clinton played in the Reduta jazz club in Prague .
The company is more than two-thirds owned by the British company Geneva BrassWind, the rest is owned by the entrepreneur Jiří Štípek. In 2019, the company had a turnover of 4 million euros. In 2020 Amati-Denak filed for bankruptcy. At this point in time it was in debt to the equivalent of 7.3 million euros.
Products
With its instrument production, the company is one of the three largest companies of its kind in Europe, alongside Buffet Crampon and Selmer . It houses the Amati , Stowasser and VF Červený & Synové brands , the latter being the world's largest producer of cylindrical instruments in terms of product range, with its own production site in Hradec Králové .
Amati makes clarinets , bassoons , double bassoons and saxophones on woodwind instruments . Extensive the program is to brass instruments, it includes: cornets , trumpets , flugelhorn , tenor horns , baritones , euphoniums , trombones and slide trombones , French horns, tubas and Susaphone.
The company sells its products in the Czech Republic and more than 50 other countries.
Appendix: clarinets
Amati manufactures clarinets with a German and French fingering system (Oehler and Böhm). With a German system are offered: two models in Bb, one model in high-flat, two models in low-G, furthermore a short bass clarinet in B-flat to low-flat and two long ones to low-C. The French system is used to produce: two models in Bb, three in A, two in C, three in high-Eb, an alto clarinet in low-Eb, as well as a short bass clarinet and two long ones.
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 26.4 ″ N , 12 ° 30 ′ 59.4 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolf Fuchs: The relocation of the Sudeten German small musical instrument industry from Graslitz and Schönbach, Marburg: Elwert 1953, p. 113 f.
- ^ The Sax Life of Bill Clinton: President's Impromptu Performance at Czech Club Is Immortalized on CD. September 5, 1994, Retrieved May 24, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Amati ukončila v Hradci Králové po 178 letech výrobu dechových nástrojů. In: OperaPlus. February 4, 2020, accessed August 15, 2020 (Czech).
- ↑ Traditional instrument maker Amati-Denak insolvent | nmz - new music newspaper. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
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