Doc Rossi wrote: > Well, searching for the maker with metacrawler, I found this link, > but I couldn't find the guitar. Interesting text, though:
Yes, but unfortunately that seems to be just a search engine spam site so there's no way of knowing where they got it from. Probably from some old Ebay auction. Speaking of Ebay, I just found this there: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290042084419 Seems our Mr. Voigt was a man of many qualities. David Kilpatrick wrote: > 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, Yes, but keep in mind that Alban Voigt & Co wasn't a German company as such. The owner may have come from Germany once but by 1914 he and his company had been located in London for over 40 years. He wouldn't have just closed down and left because of the war. He might well have followed the royal family's example and changed his name though. > No special reason why someone active in 1870 should not have been > writing in 1925. You're right, there isn't. It's just that I have problems imagining a man who built what appears to have been a rather posh music business spending his old age studying the jews harp. Oy music dealers certainly wasn't the only Alban Voigt anyway. There was a painter by that name and also one Alban Voigt who wrote a book called "Riviera." Neither the first name nor the family name was that unusual. Frank Nordberg To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
