Musical instrument making
Historical instrument making workshop in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg
The musical instrument is the art of making and repairing musical instruments . Instrument makers mostly work in a workshop , the vocational training , like in most crafts , is organized as an apprenticeship and is often completed with a completely self-made instrument as a journeyman's piece .
The profession of instrument maker is divided into several specialist areas:
- The violin maker makes string instruments ,
- the bow maker builds bows ,
- the plucked instrument maker makes plucked instruments ,
- the woodwind instrument maker builds woodwind instruments ,
- the brass instrument maker produces brass instruments ,
- the piano maker builds pianos ,
- the manual instrument maker produces instruments with reeds and
- the organ builder makes organs and harmonies .
literature
- Rudolf Hopfner: Instrument making . In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
- Leo von Lütgendorff : The violin and lute makers from the Middle Ages to the present. (1923) 2 volumes. Unchanged reprint of the 6th, revised edition, Tutzing: Schneider, Tutzing 1975, ISBN 3-7952-0061-X . With a supplement by Thomas Drescher, 1990, ISBN 3-7952-0616-2 .
- Musical instrument making in: German Music Council (ed.): Musik-Almanach 2007/08. Data and facts about musical life in Germany. ConBrio, Regensburg 2006. pp. 1034-1089.
Web links
Wikisource: Digital copies of the Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau 1880–1943 - sources and full texts
- Industrial and craft companies for musical instrument making in Germany (list from the German Music Information Center)
- Musical instrument manufacture in Germany (cartographic representation of the German Music Information Center; PDF; 950 kB)
- Keyboard wiki ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) - Portal for historical piano making