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RE: G Penzel Clarinets

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-07-14 03:00

Everything I've got on the Penzels & Penzel-Mueller:
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Penzel, Johann August (d Lubeck 31 October 1873). WWI fl Lubeck 19c.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Hennings 1951.
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Penzel, Christoph Friedrich (d ?1896) WWI fl Markneukirchen late 19c.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: 4/716.705,20.691.
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Penzel, G.L., & Bro. WWI fl New York 1882-1998.
Established 1881 in Germany by the brothers Gustav Ludwig ('Louis') (b Germany 4 October 1855; d New York 27 May 1920) and Gustav F. ('Frederick') Penzel; 1882, on immigration, transferred to New York; 1898 joined by their relative E.G. Muller; 1899 succeeded by PENZEL & MULLER. Specialist in flute (4k-6k models) and clarinet, especially German system.
MARK: [a] (American eagle with downturned wings) / G.L. PENZEL / & BRO. / NEW YORK '(eagle), G.L. Penzel, New York' ADDRESS: 1882-84: 216 Sixth Avenue; 1885-99: 368 Bowery.
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Penzel & Muller (Mueller) WWI fl New York 1899 pl 1950.
1899 established as partnership between G.L. PENZEL and Edward Georg Muller (b Germany 1869; d New York 6 November 1956); from 1920 as 'Penzel & Mueller'; 1920-55 Mueller served as company President, retiring 1925 from production work and building the firm into the leading American maker of standard WWI lines; his sons Walter and Gustave were also active in the firm. From c1920-1935 the firm owned the A.G. BADGER CO.; 1946 the firm Of CLOOS was acquired. Employed trade name 'Empire State'; see also LAUBIN, PRUEFER, W.S. RICHARDS.
MARK: [a: 1899-1920] (American eagle) / G.L. PENZEL & MUELLER / NEW YORK / [b: from 1920] PENZEL-MUELLER / NEW YORK
ADDRESS: 1899: 368 Bowery; 11)01-216 Cooper Square: 1921-70 31-11, 33rd St, Long Island City, NY.
INVENTION: application of "Nicolene' (nickel-silver alloy) for WWI keys.
PATENT: 1899 (US) #023422 (G.L. Penzel and E.G. Mueller): improved 'simplesystem' clarinet mechanism.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Farrar in NAMIS 7.3, 8.1(1989). AMIS committee (private communication).
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Penzel, J.C. BI fl Leipzig 1842-1880.
1842 established by Johann Christoph (b Elster/ Adorf 15 March 1817; d Leipzig 5 May 1879) as successor to C.F. SATTLER, whose daughter he had married. Trombone specialist. 1879 his son Christoph Hermann Robert (b 1947; d 1880) became his successor, but only survived him by one year. Both SCHOPPER and (2) 0. ULLMANN were each later to call themselves his successor; however the former opened nine years, the latter 23 years after Penzel's death, both at different addresses.
MARK: 'J.C. Penzel, sonst C.F. Sattler'
LOCATION: tenor trombone: D-Leipzig: 3303; bass trombone: D-Berlin: 28 [X].
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Heyde 1980b.
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Penzel, Karl Robert WWI fl Adorf 1897-pl930.
1900 advertised as maker of flute, oboe, clarinet.
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Penzel, Ludwig WWI fl Markneukirchen ?20c.
A 'trommelflote' reported.

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