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Hans Reichel (Born May 10, 1949) is a German improvisational guitarist, luthier, inventor, and typographer. Events 1291 - Scottish Nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste or inclination of the musician(s involved in many cases the musicians make

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Career

Reichel was born in Hagen, Germany. He began to teach himself violin at age 7, playing in the school orchestra until age 15. Around age 15, he began to play guitar and became interested in rock music, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and later, Frank Zappa, Cream, and Jimi Hendrix. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21 1940 – December 4 1993 was an American Composer, Electric guitarist Record producer and Film director Cream were a 1960s British rock band James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix) (November 27 1942 – September 18 1970 was an American Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter Reichel played in various groups before giving up music for a time while studying graphic design and working as a typesetter. Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in graphic form on Paper or some other medium.

He came back to music in the early 1970s, when he recorded a tape of guitar music. This recording was sent to the jury of the German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt, where he was asked to appear in a special concert for newcomers. Discussions with Jost Gebers, the founder of Free Music Production (FMP), led to release of Reichel's music on the label, his first release being Wichlinghauser Blues in 1973.

The majority of Reichel's body of work consists of solo recordings, along with performances in smaller group settings. He has recorded duets with a wide variety of musicians, including accordionist Rüdiger Carl, cellist Tom Cora, percussionist EROC, and a number of guitarists including Kazuhisa Uchihashi and Fred Frith. The accordion is a portable box-shaped Musical instrument of the hand-held Bellows -driven free-reed aerophone family sometimes referred to as a Squeezebox The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ Tom Cora (born Thomas Henry Corra) ( September 14, 1953 - April 9, 1998) was a United States cellist and composer Kazuhisa Uchihasi (内橋和久 Uchihashi Kazuhisa) is a Japanese Guitarist involved in Free improvisation music Fred Frith (born February 17, 1949) is an English Multi-instrumentalist, Composer and improvisor. Reichel is also a member of the September Band (along with vocalist Shelley Hirsch, Rüdiger Carl, and drummer Paul Lovens), and has also performed with larger ensembles led by the likes of saxophonist Thomas Borgmann and Butch Morris, an avante-garde conductor. Shelley Hirsch (born 1952 in Brooklyn, New York) is a singer performer and composer Paul Lovens (born in Aachen, Germany, 6 June 1949) is a musician Lawrence D "Butch" Morris (b Long Beach, California, February 10, 1947) is an American Jazz Cornetist

Due to the limited distribution of FMP, Reichel's music has never much been heard, especially in the United States. Smaller, independent labels such as Rastascan, Table of the Elements, and Intakt have issued some of his recordings in North America. Despite this limited exposure, Reichel was featured in Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones, a book and CD released in 1996, devoted to invented instruments. He was also named among the "30 Most Radical Guitarists" in a 1997 issue of Guitar Player magazine. Guitar Player is a popular magazine for Guitarists It contains articles interviews reviews and lessons of an eclectic collection of artists genres and products

Invented instruments

Reichel has constructed and built several interesting variations of guitars and basses, most of them featuring multiple fretboards and unique positioning of pickups. The fingerboard (also known as a fretboard on fretted instruments is a part of most Stringed instruments It is a thin long strip of Wood that is A pickup device acts as a Transducer that captures mechanical vibrations (usually from suitably equipped Stringed instruments such as the Electric guitar The resulting sounds exceed the range of conventional tuning and add interesting effects, from odd overtones to metallic noises, to his play.

His Daxophone is a single wooden blade fixed in a block containing a contact microphone, which is played mostly with a bow. The daxophone, invented by Hans Reichel, is a custom made musical instrument of the Friction idiophone category

Partial discography

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