Carl Geyer (instrument maker)
Carl Christian Gottlob Geyer (born November 25, 1880 in Johanngeorgenstadt , † October 18, 1973 in Elmhurst , Illinois ) was a German musical instrument maker, whose merit it was to introduce the use of cylinder valves in horn construction in the USA.
Geyer came from Johanngeorgenstadt in the Saxon Ore Mountains. At the age of 16 he started an apprenticeship with the musical instrument maker Adolf Meinel in Markneukirchen in Vogtland . At the beginning of the 20th century he moved to Mulhouse in Alsace. He later worked in Erfurt and Cologne before emigrating to the USA in 1903/04. He settled in Chicago , where he worked as a horn maker for Richard Wunderlich. Carl Geyer founded his own company there in 1920 and was best known for licensed replicas of Herbert Fritz Knopf's double horn (K model). In 1955 he sold his company and continued to work there until around 1970. He died a few weeks before his 93rd birthday.
literature
- Gary Gardner Fladmoe: The contributions to brass instrument manufacturing of Vincent Bach, Carl Geyer, and Renold Schilke , Dissertation, Urbana (Illions) 1975
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| SURNAME | Geyer, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Geyer, Carl Christian Gottlob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musical instrument maker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Johanngeorgenstadt , Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th October 1973 |
| Place of death | Elmhurst , Illinois |