Horn-u-Copia's Display of Makers

1868-1930

ARJUMA is actualy the name of the factory that was started in 1868 by August Reichel. Arjuma is short for August Reichel Junior Markneukirchen. They gathered fame for training instrument makers and besides his own sons the first of the Knopf and the Monnig family where trained here and also Gustav Jehring and August Spengler who all started their own musicalinstrument workshops in Markneukirchen.

Philipp Reichel was established in 1908, after training with Emil Knoth from 1884 to 1900. Taken over by the V.E.B Group in 1975.

The last of the Reichel family that worked in the musicalinstrument busyness was Karl Armin Reichel who died in 1962.

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