Carl Friedrich Uhlig (1789 – 1874)
From stocking maker to instrument maker of an “Accordion of a new kind”
Carl Friedrich Uhlig was born in Bernsdorf near Chemnitz in April 1789 and was a trained hosier.
Uhlig played the clarinet in a Chemnitz orchestra.
The Instrument
It is well known that the instrument that gives the tango its soul is not the concertina, but the bandoneon. So what is the difference between these instruments and how did this name come about?
On the trail of the concertina and the bandoneon…
Carlsfeld, Klingenthal, Krefeld…
In Chemnitz, nothing commemorates the inventor of the concertina today: no monument, no plaque, no street name. We want to change that.
