I was aware your horn being an Alexander, but my interests are more general about German brass making history, which was the perspective I attempted to apply.
I am very much in agreement with what Hans writes. Only he is a bit more conservative on when the German brass instruments’ production stopped before the war than I am. Klaus --- On Wed, 8/11/10, Milton Kicklighter <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Milton Kicklighter <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Old Horn > To: "The Horn List" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 6:32 PM > Thanks Klaus, > > In all of my writing I did forget to mention that my horn > is an Alexander. > > Milton > Milton Kicklighter > 4th Horn Buffalo Philharmonic > Retired > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre <[email protected]> > To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, August 11, 2010 12:15:45 PM > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Old Horn > > I was raised in Germany post-WWII even if I am as Danish as > it comes. My father > found a history textbook from the nazi era, which I > remember reading as a teen. > The nazis maintained the swastika being an original old > German symbol, which is > not true. I am sure swastika samples may be found from > several periods of German > history, yet I doubt they ever were widespread until the > Nazi era starting > slowly after WWI. The nazis ruled Germany from 1933 through > their surrender in > early May 1945. > > Before their taking over government I doubt any company > would use the swastika > symbol. Hans hints that practice not starting until 1934. > > Very much until Stalingrad the nazis believed they would > win the war. I have > seen a 1941 Knopf single F horn belonging to a now deceased > Danish amateur > player. > > I. K. Gottfried of Copenhagen stopped producing brass > instruments in 1943, > because they no longer could get valve blocks from > Markneukirchen. > > This goes to say that Germany continued production not > essential to warfare much > longer than at least I would have expected. Boosey & > Hawkes very soon were > commandeered to make fuel supply systems for Spitfires and > other fighter planes > very soon after the outbreak of WWII. Conn made compasses > rather than musical > instruments. > > On a tangent: A lot of German brass makers lived in the > Sudeten mountain region > in Czechoslovakia along the border to Saxony. After the > Munich agreement in 1938 > the Sudeten area was annexed by Germany. I have seen photos > of instruments > engraved Sudetengau (the name of the German administrative > region). This for > sure dates these instruments after the annexation and > before the end of the war. > > Klaus > > --- On Wed, 8/11/10, Milton Kicklighter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: Milton Kicklighter <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Old Horn > > To: "The Horn List" <[email protected]> > > Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 5:29 PM > > Thanks Klaus, > > > > In what time period would the swastika on the horn > have > > been approprate? > > > > My thoughts were that since the symbol was so > disguised as > > to be almost > > imposable to see, that it might have been forbidden. > > > > I am always interested in the historical > possibilities. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Milton > > Milton Kicklighter > > 4th Horn Buffalo Philharmonic > > Retired > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre <[email protected]> > > To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wed, August 11, 2010 11:17:50 AM > > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Old Horn > > > > > > > > --- On Wed, 8/11/10, Milton Kicklighter <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > I do > > > know that I have owned > > > the horn for forty plus years and the gentleman > that > > I > > > bought it from had owned > > > the horn for more than forty plus years. > > > > Two consecutive ownerships of each forty years plus > would > > date the horn to > > pre-1930. A swastika would not likely have been part > of the > > engraving on a horn > > made prior to 1933. > > > > Klaus > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > post: [email protected] > > unsubscribe or set options at > >https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/kicklighgter%40yahoo.com > >m > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > post: [email protected] > > unsubscribe or set options at > >https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/yorkmasterbbb%40yahoo.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/kicklighgter%40yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/yorkmasterbbb%40yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
