Trembita Musical Instrument Factory quality of the instruments being manufactured. Currently 4 models are available In 2000 they intend in enlarge their production and including a new Kharkiv bandura with mechanism in its manufacturing plans. A number of experimental diatonic Kharkiv banduras have been made. Prototypes of an electric bandura with internal pickups have been developed and are planned for production. Trembita Musical Instrument Factory The "Trembita" Musical Instrument Factory manufactures stringed instruments. Since 1948 it has manufactured banduras, a Ukrainian instrument; it also produces guitars. The factory is located in Lviv, Ukraine. The Lviv factory of musical instruments known as "Trembita" is primarily
Berlin Musical Instrument Museum Hotteterre. Curt Sachs, Director from 1919-1933, brought a scientific approach to the collections. He was one of the founders of modern organology (the study of musical instruments) and co-authored the Sachs-Hornbostel system of instrument classification. The Museum rose to international importance and his catalogs form the basis of academic research papers to this day. When the Nazis seized power in 1933, Sachs was dismissed from his post by the Nazi Party and forced to emigrate because he was Jewish. In 1935, the musical instrument collection was removed from the Academy to the new National Institute for German Music Research headed