Ulrich, Scott, Thanks a million! You guys settled that issue much quicker than I expected. I guess it's not as old as the previous owner thought. The mystery has been solved. Thanks again!
- Joe On Dec 20, 4:32 am, "Ulrich Joosten" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > before reading Scott's answer I was browsing through your photos and thought > by myself: this must be a Reichmann - and now I do not doubt. You could > check back with Kurt athttp://www.kurt-reichmann.de/leier2 > > Btw.: don't click on the "hurdy-gurdy" link on his website if you ca not > stand what Americans probably may call "offensive" photographs. Kurt did a > lot of what he called "Hurdy-Gurdy-Girls" photos. Here in Europe I do not > believe that anybody would be shocked about these kind of aesthetic nude > neon photographs. I interviewed Kurt some years ago for German "Folker!" > magazine and he told me he wanted to do a series of modern photographs to > depict the story of the girls who "were emigrated" to USA. In the German > province of Hessen many girls were hired by unserious "managers" for playing > their hurdy-gurdies in USA, but once they agreed to emigrate were forced to > work as whores in the saloons - up to even the Alaska gold rush towns. Kurt > did a lot of research on this topic and later decided to do this neon > photos. If one likes it . > > Unfortunately Kurt does not publish his e-mail address (if he has one), but > you if you want to ask him about your instrument you can send him a snail > mail at > > Kurt Reichmann Drehleier Atelier > Glauburgstr. 67 > 60318 Frankfurt > > Hope this helps a bit. > > Best regards, > > Uli > > _____ > > Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im > Auftrag von [email protected] > Gesendet: Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 02:23 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [HG-new] Re: Gurdy Identification > > It's a Kurt Riechmann. Probably mid 1980's. He made several of that type, > the heads are exactly the same on all of them. > > I am not sure if I identified this same instrument on ebay but I did have > one that was blonde in color, otherwise easily the same instrument in > design. > > Please see the Reichmann photo set on my Flickr account. > <http://flickr.com/photos/27406...@n08/>http://flickr.com/photos/27406...@n08/or > search for Fahnreich the photos > are set to public. > > _____ > > One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo > Mail. > <http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolco... > 025> Try it now. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
