Hermann Schmidt brass instruments
| Hermann Schmidt brass instruments (HSM) | |
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| founding | 1978 |
| Seat | Markneukirchen , Germany |
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| Branch | Wind instrument manufacturer |
| Website | www.hsm-brass.de |
The Markneukirchen- based company Hermann Schmidt Metallblasinstrumenten ( HSM for short ) is one of the few surviving traditional instrument makers in the Vogtland that continues to manufacture musical instruments by hand to this day . According to the company, it was founded in 1978 by Hermann Schmidt as a pure repair shop for brass instruments . Schmidt's ancestors moved from Franconia to Vogtland in 1896 as mouthpiece makers.
The product range includes trumpets , flugelhorns , cornets , trombones , hunting horns , tenor horns , baritones and tubes .
HSM made a decisive contribution to the development of a modern ophicle in 2002/03 .
In 2011, HSM received the German Musical Instrument Prize for a bass trumpet in C. For the development of a double tuba that combines a bass tuba in F and a double bass tuba in B in a professional instrument, HSM received funding of around 27,000 euros from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in 2011.
Footnotes
- ↑ New Ophicleide developed. In: ophicleide.de. Erhard Schwartz, accessed on May 26, 2017 .
- ↑ German Musical Instrument Prize. In: Kultur-Frankfurt.de. Retrieved May 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Two become one: Development of a new double tuba as a professional instrument. Central Innovation Program for SMEs of the BMWI, accessed on May 26, 2017 .