Siegfried Wendel

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Siegfried Wendel (born June 29, 1935 - † October 10, 2016 ) was a German collector of mechanical musical instruments and museum operator.

Act

When Siegfried Wendel visited an open-air museum near Los Angeles on his honeymoon in the mid-1960s, which also demonstrated a number of player pianos and other musical automatons, this inspired him to found the First German Museum for Mechanical Musical Instruments on October 17, 1969 in Hochheim am Main . The premises there soon became too small and in 1975 he moved into the Brömserhof with the museum in Rüdesheim am Rhein . Since then he has been running Siegfried's Mechanisches Musikkabinett there with the help of his son Jens Wendel .

Wendel was a founding member of the Society for Self-Playing Musical Instruments in 1975 . He coined the term data storage music instruments and thus placed the records and tapes used in the jukeboxes in the ancestral line of modern computer-aided storage media.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth and death taken from the family's obituary in the Rheingau-Echo from October 13, 2016
  2. ^ Wiesbadener Kurier: Leisure tips. Rüdesheim: Mechanisches Musikkabinett , accessed on October 14, 2016
  3. ↑ News from GSM e. V .: Siegfried Wendel has passed away!
  4. ^ Rheingau Echo from October 20, 2016: Siegfried Wendel - A part of mechanical music history

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personal data
SURNAME Wendel, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German collector of mechanical musical instruments and museum operator
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1935
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2016