![]() It was traditionally made of wood or cane, with an external duct. Similar to the European recorder, it is a block flute in which air is forced across a fipple by a blockage in the wind chamber. The primary wind instrument of Native American culture. He invented, jointly with the Berlin maker Wilhelm Wieprecht, the ‘Berliner-Pumpe’ valve in. Moritz built trumpets, keyed bugles, and valve horns, he is best known for his work on the valve and on the bass tuba. ![]() After his death his work was continued by his sons Wilhelm Moritz (1837–72) and Johann Carl Albert Moritz (1837–97) and succeeding members of the family until 1955 (after World War II in West Berlin).Īlthough J.G. ![]() Like his father he became court instrument maker, on 24 October 1840. Moritz carried on the business after his father’s death, expanding the work to include a range of woodwind instruments. On 1 December 1819 he became instrument maker to the Berlin court. Moritz founded the family business in 1799 in Leipzig, moving to Dresden in 1805, and to Berlin in 1808. Its most important members were Johann Gottfried Moritz ( b 1777 d Berlin, 30 July 1840) and his son Carl Wilhelm Moritz ( b Berlin, d Berlin, ). German family of brass and woodwind instrument makers. ![]() Membranophones (Stretched Membrane Percussion) Music Business, Institutions and Organizations
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