1. Hans Reichel was a German improvisational guitarist, experimental luthier, inventor, and type designer.
10 Facts About Hans Reichel
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Hans Reichel began to teach himself violin at age seven, playing in the school orchestra until age fifteen.
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Hans Reichel left music in the late 1960s to pursue font design and typesetting.
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Hans Reichel returned to music in the early 1970s, when he recorded a tape of guitar music.
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Hans Reichel worked with groups led by Thomas Borgmann and Butch Morris.
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The record labels Intakt, Rastascan, and Table of the Elements released some of Hans Reichel's albums, compensating for the limited distribution of FMP.
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Hans Reichel died at the age of 62 in Wuppertal, Germany.
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Hans Reichel constructed and built several variations of guitars and basses, most of them featuring multiple fretboards and unique positioning of pickups and 3rd bridges.
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Hans Reichel's daxophone is a single wooden blade fixed in a block containing a contact microphone, which is played mostly with a bow.
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Hans Reichel designed a few typefaces, among them one of today's most popular type designs in advertising and in marketing.