Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-10-20 03:22
Wunderlich, C.A. WWI, BI fl Siebenbrunn 1854-c1945.
Established 1854, according to advertisement; according to Ernst, established by Carl August Wunderlich (b 1882; d 1959); the family had long been active locally as SI, guitar makers; 1909 advertised as 'factory for RI and strings, dealers in all MIs', 1934 advertised 'Herstellung in Heimarbeit' (home-worker production). A very large firm of MI makers/dealers, offering by catalogue WWIs, BIs, Pls, SIs; 1930s made tarogato with saxophone fingering. See also Berninger, Heubach, (1) A. Knopf.
MARK:
'CEA'
PATENT:
1936 (D) #1382052: bassoon in metal; 'Normaphon' (trumpet in tenor saxophone form).
From The New Langwill Index.
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