Frank Nordberg wrote: > >11) http://people.freenet.de/Maultrommel/klassifikation.htm >In 1925 somebody named Alban Voigt wrote an article about the history of >the jews harp. Probably not the same person. > > > I would suggest 1914 as a possible date for Alban Voigt's exit from business - the anti-German feeling in 1st world war London were enough to damage the German musical instrument business permanently, and establish several British piano-makers in a big way. Up to 1914, Britain relied on Germany for instruments (at least for mass produced ones), mechanical toys, certain types of specialist printing and all manner of optical, technical and scientific stuff. The Great War prompted home-grown alternatives. It also persuaded many with German names to change to English equivalents, already a habit anyway (many Europeans used different names in each country hundreds of years before - or Latinised their names, for universal use).
No special reason why someone active in 1870 should not have been writing in 1925. Many people started in business before they were 20, or the moment they were 21 (apprenticed at 14, 7 years to become a master, adult and in independent business or trade at 21). Plenty of 75-year olds have set pen to paper writing bits of musical history! David To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
