Zademack-Micklitz-Bandonion
System: Zademack, Micklitz
unisonoric, logical
(Collection Oriwohl, Nr. 343)
Manufacture: Co. Wilhelm König (Berlin), 3.10.1922.
Range: C-fis3, 2-choirs (right: 8'+8' left: 8'+4')
In the year this instrument was manufactured, Fritz Micklitz sold his Altenburg bandonion company and becomes a partner in Wilhelm König's workshop in Berlin, where further development took place.
Left manual: C-?
Zademack system, with extension of the range by the addition of the top row (others will follow) by Fritz Micklitz.
Right manual: f(fis) - fis3
Chromatic tone allocation according to Julius Zademack.
In the wooden cut-out the initials of Wilhelm König: "W K".
Soundposts with aluminium collector plates and steel reeds.
Company stamp and date ofManufacture:
"Wilh. König, Bandonion-Fabrik, Charlottenburg, Franklin-Str.19"
"3.Oktober 1922"
Wilhelm König (1888-1955) from Bitterfeld, the son of a violin maker, was apprenticed to his father and set up his own business as a bandonion maker in Berlin in 1906.
Wilhelm König as a musician on the bandonion
