The instrument makers were directly impacted by European wars of the Twentieth Century, Nazi and Soviet expansionism and the Cold War.
My goal is to provide some insight in the evolution and revolutions that have taken place to result in the Amati-Denak company of today. I will leave it to some scholar in the future to write the definitive history, with names, details and facts that I have not included in this short summary. I admit my Czech-Canadian heritage and that I am a bit of a ‘shill’ for the Amati brand. I do believe that Amati’s line of saxophones and instruments deserve a fair consideration from Canadian and American consumers. I especially want to thank Klaus Dapper (and Klaus Schneider (as their websites provided the basis for this article. I used the online Google translation service for the translation from German to English.įinally, I take full responsibility for the content of this article, and I invite corrections and improvements where they are required. One of the most important areas for the production of musical instruments in the world is the area in and around Kraslice in the now Czech Republic. A violin maker’s guild was established there in 1669, and was the start of over 300 years of musical instrument making tradition in Kraslice. From that date on, production of musical instruments of all types flourished in the area. Prior to Czechoslovakian independence in 1919, the region was a German speaking area of North West Bohemia.