Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH - German Music Instrument Award 2009

Prize Winning Instrument 4/4 ViolineStore this angel in big sizePresented in the categories 4/4 violin and bass tuba with
piston valves!

For outstanding musical-instrument making!

The German Music Instrument Award has been awarded annually on the break of the Musikmesse in Frankfurt am Main back 1991. This year, the Award goes to three musical-instrument makers from Markneukirchen, Munich and Bubenreuth. The Award is accustomed for instruments in two categories that are afflicted every year. Musical-instrument makers from all over Germany can access their instruments for the competition, in which the instruments are subjected to a austere alternative action accoutrement not alone acoustics, accomplishment above and playability but aswell amount for money.

This year, the Awards in the 4/4 violin chic go to violin maker Nele Jülch from Munich for her ‘Modell Stradivari’ violin and to Ernst Heinrich Roth KG from Bubenreuth for their ‘Passenda’ violin. In the bass tuba category, the German Music Instrument Award goes to JA Musik from Markneukirchen for the bass tuba, archetypal B&S JBL Classics 3100WG-L.

The awards celebration will be captivated in Café Classic in Hall 1.2 of Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre in the attendance of Dagmar Wöhrl, Member of the German Bundestag and Parliamentary Secretary of State in the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology, at 18.00 hrs on Thursday, 2 April 2009.
The two award-wining violins accept been fabricated in accordance with the Cremona attitude of a Stradivari and are characterised by the use of naturally-aged woods. Both violin makers use approved and activated recipes for the varnish. In the final analysis, the two violins were advised to be appropriately acceptable and appropriately allotment the German Music Instrument Award in the 4/4 violin category.

The bass tuba of JA Musik was developed in cooperation with Prof. Jens Björn-Larsen, European Chamber Orchestra, and Professor for Tuba in Hanover. Björn-Larsen accomplished all his greatest successes arena his B&S F-Tuba 3100W over a aeon of abounding years. Thus, if it was absitively to acquaint a new adaptation of this tuba, it fabricated faculty to absorb the artist in the improvements and changes. Although the accommodation were revised and the aboriginal valve chip into a new mouthpipe, the complete charcoal that archetypal of Björn-Larsen’s bass tuba.
JA Musik will be announcement during the Musikmesse in Hall 1.1, Stand F21.
To actuate the award-winners, the instruments submitted accept to abide a three-stage testing procedure. Five musicians appraise the instruments in action, admitting the acoustic backdrop of the instruments are bent "objectively, after the access of the performer". In a third stage, an able evaluates the instruments in agreement of their handcrafted workmanship.

In 2010, the German Musical Instrument Award will be accustomed in the categories bassoon and b-flat trumpet (piston valve). The closing date for acquiescence of entries to the Institut für Musikinstrumentenbau is 22 April 2009. Applicants can access the complete appliance backpack from:
Institut für Musikinstrumentenbau
Klingenthaler Straße 42
D-08267 Zwota
Telephone: +49 37467 23481, e-mail: post@ifm-zwota.de

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Musikmesse is the world's better all-embracing barter fair for agreeable instruments, music software & computer hardware, area music and accessories. Around 75,000 barter visitors from the musical-instrument sector, manufacturers, dealers, able and abecedarian musicians fabricated their way to Frankfurt for the endure accident in March 2008. Musikmesse is complemented altogether by the Prolight + Sound barter fair, which is captivated at Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre at the aforementioned time. Additionally, Musikmesse visitors accept chargeless access to the Prolight + Sound barter fair for audio, lighting, accident and advice technology.

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