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Lignatone catalog 351 - piston brasswind & woodwind musical instruments, ca. 1949-1954

The Ligna corporation was one element of the import-export apparatus in communist Czechoslovakia. Lignatone musical instruments were generally the export-focused line, just a brand name applied to the instruments made by various state-run factories. For wind instruments, the most infamous was Amati-Kraslice, comprised of the former Bohland & Fuchs, Červený, Lidl, and others. The Czechoslovak government relied on the musical instrument industry to get hard currency from abroad, and even worked with their nearby neighbors in the Musikwinkel of Saxony (East Germany). Many of the aforementioned imprints and firms still survive within private entities. This catalog, number 351, features piston brasswinds and woodwinds. Catalog 352 features rotary brasswinds . Some of the copy is identical to that of early catalogs and is even found in later ones. This catalog has fewer clues than number 352 as to when it was produced. The number precedes 352, of course, and the styling is plainer than catalog 352. Some of the seemingly archaic designs here are also seen in the ca. 1949 Ligna export catalog. There does not appear to be a state censorial approval mark or serial indicating when it was prod

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