Stoessel lute

The ram - lute, mandolin and pestle, is a plucked string instrument with flat lautenartigem outline. It was named after its inventor, Cologne luthier Georg ram ( 1867-1943 ).

The short and wide neck features a fingerboard with five frets. The strings being gripped on the end edge, the gripping fingers are parallel to the string. Ram sought with these sounds the difficult grasping types of commonly used stringed instruments to simplify monitoring purposes, to achieve a rapid learning curve and greater convenience. The common form has seven strings, but there are also ram sounds with five and nine strings and the bass sounds that also have 13 bass strings that are plucked like a zither.

History

1914 George built his first ram ram sounds. On 31 August 1915 he was awarded by the German Patent Office, the patent for the basic version and three further developments. In the following decades he built hundreds of variations of his lute. His collection of prototypes in his Cologne studio burned in 1943 in a bomb attack. On June 23, 1923, the Stösselinstrumentenbau AG was founded in Stuttgart, which produced the sounds under ram as technical director and engineer Kurt Schiffler as sales manager for the national market. After the bankruptcy of the AG was Schiffler production in its Dusyma workshops in Stuttgart- Ostheim continued. There are also named after him arose model Schiffler.

Name

Ram described his instrument as a ram 's lute mandolin. In a 1920 published school by HJ Bachem, the instrument is called a ram 's Accord mandolin. The result was to appear at school by the name of Joseph Drechsel ram mandolin. The Stuttgart Dusyma workshops they made under the name of German lute and lute Mando. The latter term was used by Dusyma for various instruments.