150th Anniversary Weekend Celebration
Saturday 8th, Sunday 9th September 2007
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Heinz Michael Meier, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and
Dr. Horst Bräuning, Chairman of the Management Board of Matth. Hohner
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Managing Director of Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH &
Co. KG, Klaus Stetter and Akkordeon Product Manager Horst Fausel. |
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The music of Mickael Vigneau of France welcomed the guests
as they moved into the Konzerthaus auditorium. The hall was decorated
with advertising celebrating the 150th anniversary and the slogan "Enjoy
Music - Play Hohner". |
From Switzerland was well known teacher Peter Frey greeting
Hohner Akkordeon Product Manager Horst Fausel and Ulrich Schmuelling,
owner of Intermusik Newspaper and Karthause-Schmuelling Publications. |
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Harley Jones of Accordions Worldwide and Horst Fausel inside
the Trossingen Konzerthaus where a reception before the formal speeches
and concert were provided. |
Harmonicamento, a harmonica quartet began the official concert
and speech presentations. Left to right: Gerhard Mueller, Katrin Gass,
Brigitte Burgbacher and Birgit Käfer. They played Commedians Gallop
(Kabalevski), Vivace Capriccioso (Giessen) and Sabre Dance (Khatchaturian). |
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Heinz Michael Meier, made the opening speech, Chairman of
the Supervisory Board, Matth. Hohner AG.
Speech text. |
A historical image was put on the stage while Heinz Michael
Meier made his speech. Part of the tremendous attention to detail and
professional Hohner advertising prevelant all over Trossingen during the
weekend. |
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Heinz Michael Meier announced the appointment of two "Hohner
Ambassadors" one being Yoichi Minagawa from Japan (also Chairman
Moridaira - Japanese Hohner Representative), to whom he presented the
letter of appointment. |
Chairman of the Management Board of Matth. Hohner AG, Dr.
Horst Braeuning spoke next.
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The Art of Accordion quintet performed next. The have enjoyed
successes at the recent Coupe Mondiale competitions in Washington and
the Innsbruck World Music event. Left to right: Alexander Cargnelli, Sarah
Staiger, Ralf Brendle, Michaela Hepp, Clemens Tschallener.
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The Art of Accordion played Conrabaissimo and a really effective
work of rhythmn sound effects with subtle music titled Hip-Hop-Turm (Billian).
Ralf Brendle with his arms in the air. |
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Mayor of Trossingen Dr. Clemens Maier spoke in welcome.
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MdL Ernst Pfister, Economics Minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg
and President of the DHV.
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MdB Volker Kauder, Leader of the CDU/CSU CDU/CSU parliamentary
group.
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Yoichi Minagawa from Japan (Chairman of the Federation Internationale
de l 'Harmonica (FIH) Japan and also Chairman Moridaira - Japanese Hohner
Representative) |
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Prof. Goennenwein, President des Landesmusikrats |
Guido Wolf, Landrat (like Mayor of the County). |
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Piaccordia from Berlin performed several works including
Sertao (Galliano), Black Bird (Beatles) and Honeysuckley (Fats Waler). |
Accordionist Gerhard A. Schiewe of Piaccordia.
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A strong audience attended this formal event. |
Ernst Burgbacher, MdB and President of BDO (Confederation
of German Orchestra Associations) finished off his speech with a mouth
organ solo to the delight of the audience.
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Popular Mickael_Vigneau took the stage with well known French
music pieces. This was also the birthday of Mickael. |
Managing Directors of Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG Arthur
Chuang and Klaus Stetter made their joint speech in English and German.
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That concluded the formal opening Jubilee speeches and concert at an event that
was remarkable, for the very highest
level of political support for the Hohner Company in the very highest political
circles of Germany. Very impressive.
Next we went walking to the Entertainment Tent and other venues.
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At each concert venue and all around the city, there were
banners on lamposts, drop down banners and signs at concerts, banners
across the streets. Here is Horst Fausel showing an accordion poster. |
More banners that were on display. A tremendous amount of
work had been done to arrange all this publicity and really make Trossingen
City feel in a festival mode. |
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The recently built Hochschule for Musik building showing
very strong support for music in the Trossingen area. |
Ulrich Schmuelling and Frank Heinrich, Distribution Manager
Akkordeon from Musik Meyer |
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Orchester Hohnerklang being filmed by local television.
There were several crews of TV filming during the weekend. |
Arnold Kutzli, Vice-President DHV and former Hohner Director
with his wife. |
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The large number of guests invited for lunch at the very
large Hohner tent which was in the square. |
Each stage for the event was well set up with good lighting
systems, professional sound systems with mixer in the audience as you
can see from this photo and the next photo. |
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You can also see the Hohner stage decorations, the cumulative
effect of all this attention to quality and detail, being a very well
organised event. |
Even the kitchen staff had Hohner t-shirts on and you can
see by the massive numbers of plates, just how many guests were attending
the Saturday lunch. |
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Left to right: Elisabeth Meyer, Fu Hsieh, Wu Hsieh, Prof.
Hans-Peter Marutschke, Matthias Meyer, Agnes Tsao. |
Left to right: Dr. Horst Bräuning, Doris Pfister, Yoichi
Minagawa, Heinz Michael Meier, Ernst Pfister, MdL. |
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Henry Aitken and his wife travelled all the way from Scotland
with his new Hohner Morino accordion, to enjoy the Hohner 150th festivities. |
In the spirit of having something for every age, there was
a whole area set aside for the children to have fun. |
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Well known German accordion orchestra conductor Guenther
Stoll was soon directing the children to jump up and down in time and
make some musical sounds. So who were the children? - It seemed to me
that the adults (including me) were having as much fun as the children! |
Next stop was the display of new Hohner accordions, demonstrating
the very wide range of accordion models available today. A number of new
and design upgraded models were on display for the crowds attending. |
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Very nice banner back drops, excellent lighting, highlighted
the large display of new models. |
The Hohner Funflash series are in this picture including
the striking new piano accordion model, top row right with the black and
wild colored treble keys and accordion body. |
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Standard bass and free bass models. |
High up on the display was the Genius bayan model. |
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Werne Grassinger and Gabi Hand were part of the Hohner staff
in the new 150 year t-shirts, looking after harmonica enquiries from the
large crowds. |
Quite a crowd was outside the museum listening to the special
accordion machine. |
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Pneuphoniker developer Jochen Buschmann and Horst Fausel. |
Conductor Guenther Stoll and Manfred Leuchter. |
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Secretary to Dr. Horst Bräuning Tatjana Dujmic and
Harley Jones sharing a joke. |
Even the farm community got behind the event with a display
of old tractors. Great depth of community support for the event. |
Piacordia Group: Silva Finger (violin), Danuta Jacobasch (cello), Gerhard A.
Schiewe