In the late 1960's Roderich - the founder - retired and sold his company to the clarinet company Wenzel Schreiber & Sons in Nauheim. Later Schreiber (together with Roderich Paesold) was integrated in the Boosey&Hawkes (B&H) group (the other companies were Keilwerth, Buffet Crampon, Besson, Rico, Winter and (only from 1993 on) Hofner). A world wide group-own network of international distribution companies was installed. There was a high demand for guitars in the 70's and 80's but B&H didn't have a own guitar manufacturing company yet. But the group management of B&H wanted to join the guitar boom: Dutch made guitars (actually manufactured by Egmont, this company is not existent any more) were bought in with Paesold labels and sold mainly by the British and USA distribution companies. We here in Germany initially even didn't know anything about that.
In the late 1960's Roderich - the founder - retired and sold his
company to the clarinet company Wenzel Schreiber & Sons in
Nauheim. Later Schreiber (together with Roderich Paesold) was
integrated in the Boosey&Hawkes (B&H) group (the other
companies were Keilwerth, Buffet Crampon, Besson, Rico, Winter and
(only from 1993 on) Hofner). A world wide group-own network of
international distribution companies was installed.
There was a high demand for guitars in the 70's and 80's but
B&H didn't have a own guitar manufacturing company yet. But the
group management of B&H wanted to join the guitar boom: Dutch
made guitars (actually manufactured by Egmont, this company is not
existent any more) were bought in with Paesold labels and sold
mainly by the British and USA distribution companies. We here in
Germany initially even didn't know anything about that.
