Alfred Arnold (Company)
| Alfred Arnold | |
|---|---|
| legal form | unknown |
| founding | 1911 |
| resolution | 1948 |
| Seat | Carlsfeld (Eibenstock) , Ore Mountains |
| Number of employees | unknown |
| Branch | Musical instruments |
The Alfred Arnold company was a German bandoneon factory based in Carlsfeld (Eibenstock) .
history
The company was founded in 1911 in Carlsfeld, Ore Mountains, by Alfred Arnold. His father, the foreman Ernst Louis Arnold was in the harmonica factory of Carl Friedrich Zimmermann in Carlsfeld, bought his factory from Zimmermann when he emigrated to America in 1864.
The instruments of Alfred, Ernst Louis Arnold's son, from the 1920s and 1930s with the label "AA" became famous. These still enjoy an almost legendary reputation among bandoneonists: their sound image is the benchmark for every bandoneon builder - just like Silbermann organs in organ building.
By about 1945, approximately 30,000 bandoneons had been exported to Argentina and Uruguay . With the end of bandoneon production around 1948 (due to expropriation of the company), however, the documents for the local bandoneon construction disappeared. Arno Arnold, a nephew of the founder Alfred Arnold, produced bandoneons in the Rhein-Main area for a few years, but they no longer achieved the quality of AA instruments. On these instruments from the 1950s, the reed plates were mostly made of aluminum instead of zinc. Worldwide research and building tests still do not achieve the incomparable tone of the old instruments.
Detail bandonion AA
Bandoneon interior view Alfred Arnold Carlsfeld
"Premier" Marca Registrada, Alfred Arnold-Carslfeld
Individual evidence
- ^ Beginning of musical instrument production in Carlsfeld , Bandonionverein Carlsfeld
- ^ History of the Bandonion and the Alfred Arnold Company
- ↑ Jens Glüsing: Sound of homesickness. in: Der Spiegel . Hamburg 2009,2, 131. ISSN 0038-7452