Who made this Wunderlick?

[TheHatTuba]

Who made this (presumably) F tuba?
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[imperialbari]

The picture is blurred by the Wunderlich family staying and producing in Germany also after one son started working in the US. They worked in Siebenbrunn, which today forms the western part of Markneukirchen. Looks like they were independent until state conglomerates of the GDR state took over the music industry a few years after WWI. From then on Wunderlich appears being one of the stencil names put on tubas very similar to those made by B&S/Weltklang. Likely were the same.

This present tuba auction is very poorly illustrated, but the valve wrap hints pre-WWII.

Klaus

[Dan Schultz]

The picture is blurred by the Wunderlich family staying and producing in Germany also after one son started working in the US. They worked in Siebenbrunn, which today forms the western part of Markneukirchen. Looks like they were independent until state conglomerates of the GDR state took over the music industry a few years after WWI. From then on Wunderlich appears being one of the stencil names put on tubas very similar to those made by B&S/Weltklang. Likely were the same.

This present tuba auction is very poorly illustrated, but the valve wrap hints pre-WWII.

Klaus

A Carl Wunderlich tuba I owned a few years ago was without question produced in the GDR post WWII. It had all the characteristics of a B & S 101.