publications
This documentation tells about the origins and historical circumstances
of the German Walddzither in the 1930s in Middle-West-Germany.
Contemporaries told me about their lives at that period and
their personal relationship with this instrument,
that was the musical basis for a whole generation.
(self-published 2003, 96 pages, 210 x 270mm, colour-digital printed,
written in German)
As this documentation is starting with the year 1898, no surviving
contemporaries could be found. So by studying clippings of odd documents,
copies of rare instrument catalogues and photographing lots of rare instruments
the jigsaw puzzle pieces were put together eventually.
An unique connection between the Portuguese history and the city of Hamburg
was the background for a very clever merchant, C.H. Böhm, who built and
sold his “Waldzithern” successfully for forty years.
(self-published 2005, 52 pages, 210 x 270mm, colour-digital printed,
written in German)
Article on the technical relevance of the screw tuner for the history
of the German Waldzither (in German, for an inventor’s Journal, 2011)
Article about the reconstruction of a Preston tuner and the importance of
special screws (in German, for the German Lute Society, 2012)
publications
This documentation tells about the origins and historical
circumstances of the German Walddzither in the 1930s in
Middle-West-Germany.
Contemporaries told me about their lives at that period
and their personal relationship with this instrument,
that was the musical basis for a whole generation.
(self-published 2003, 96 pages, 210 x 270mm, colour-
digital printed, written in German)
As this documentation is starting with the year 1898, no
surviving contemporaries could be found. So by studying
clippings of odd documents, copies of rare instrument
catalogues and photographing lots of rare instruments
the jigsaw puzzle pieces were put together eventually.
An unique connection between the Portuguese history
and the city of Hamburg was the background for a very
clever merchant, C.H. Böhm, who built and sold his
“Waldzithern” successfully for forty years.
(self-published 2005, 52 pages, 210 x 270mm, colour-
digital printed, written in German)
Article on the technical relevance of the screw tuner for
the history
of the German Waldzither (in German, for an inventor’s
Journal, 2011)
Article about the reconstruction of a Preston tuner and
the importance of
special screws (in German, for the German Lute Society,
2012)
