W. Nirschl D-500LQ 3/4 Geyer–Style Double Horn Outfit
Quality handmade craftsmanship!
Master CraftsmanWalter Nirschl hails from Germany, where his family has been building musical instruments for six generations. His great-great-great-great-grandfather began making harmonicas in Graslitz, Bohemia in 1810 and eventually began building brass instruments. His grandfather, Wenzel Meinl, set up a music shop in Geretsried in 1945. Walter later trained at the same shop with his uncle, Anton Meinl.
After learning the business in his uncle’s factory, Walter apprenticed at other factories in the United States and France. Eventually he purchased Böhm & Meinl Symphonic, a brass instrument company in Geretsried, then the only company in the world making large bore piston tubas in the size and style of the great American York tubas. Today, Meister Walter Nirschl instruments are considered some of the finest brass instruments in the world. In 2006, Gemstone Musical Instruments partnered with Walter Nirschl to create the W. Nirschl line of brass instruments, combining sixty years of Gemeinhardt tradition with 6 generations of German craftsmanship.
