Plucked instrument maker

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Lute maker, 16th century

Plucked instrument maker is a state-recognized training occupation in one of the two fields of guitar making or harp making with a three-year training period. The job title includes the production of plucked instruments as a sub-discipline .

In practice, the plucked instrument maker usually specializes and specialist workshops for guitar builders (often further subdivided), for mandolin / mandole construction, zither and dulcimer construction as well as for harp construction are created.

The profession is related to that of violin maker and can be learned in Germany at the vocational and vocational school "Vogtländischer Musikinstrumentenbau" in Klingenthal and at the state vocational college for violin making and plucked instrument makers in Mittenwald . Furthermore, the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau - Markneukirchen branch offers the course in musical instrument making with a specialization in plucked instruments.

Since the craft law amendment 2004 Zupfinstrumentenbau one of the license-free trades that require no formal qualification. Since then, the "award of professional qualification for training" by the competent Chamber of Crafts entitles to training .

Among the best known specialist authors of Zupfinstrumentenbaus, especially for the construction of lutes , guitars and Cistern , heard through his 1963 published, common in English translation standard work The guitar and its construction Franz Jahnel-. The specialist instructor for instrument making in the Musikwinkel and school councilor in the Eger district, who emigrated from Bohemia to the Bubenreuth area in 1945 , was born on April 7, 1892 in Görkau in northern Bohemia and died on March 29, 1992.

Experimental plucked instrument makers

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ordinance on vocational training as a plucked instrument maker (Zupfinstrumentenmacherausbildungsverordnung - ZupfinstrumentAusbV) of 30 June 2014 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 875 )
  2. ^ Gerhard J. Oldiges: Foreword to the 6th edition. (1996) In: Franz Jahnel: The guitar and its construction. Erwin Bochinsky, Frankfurt am Main 1963; 8th edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-923639-09-0 , p. 3, and HK Herzog: Afterword. ibid, p. 232.