Since the 19th century catalogues have accompanied the development of musical instrument making in the Vogtland region. Musical instrument collectors use catalogues for comparison; for a historian, catalogues bring economic history to life, while a musicologist may even regard them as an iconographic source. The book which accompanies the exhibition provides information on their scientific value, discusses the question of dating, and presents the history of catalogue printing in the Vogtland region, taking the J. Schmidt Company from Markneukirchen as an example.weiterlesen