Posted by olituba on February 19, 2001 at 18:15:19:
In Reply to: Rudolph Meinl & Meinl-Weston posted by Payne on February 19, 2001 at 08:51:17:
Hi from Germany!
Rudolph Meinl is a smallish company bearing the name of its founder. If You want to check a map of germany, You wanna get Yourself a fairly detailed one to be shure the little village "Diespeck/Aisch" (funny name, I know!) is actually listed. Probably has �bout 1200 inhabintants or so... Weestish from N�rnberg. Honestly, if You saw the place,You�d NEVER believe half the BB-Tubas presently sold around the world comes from there!
Meinl-Weston however is (not much bigger a factory) situated in a (also tiny) town southwest of Munich named Geretsried. They�re doing the other half of worldwide Tuba-sales. (so they say)
Now, the only relations there are, is the pure coincidence of names, plus the competitive side of business. I mean, how many Graingers, Potters, Smiths etc will You find in every major US-city.....? So, sooner or later You�ll have two people bearing the same family name and also having the same identical job. and that�s what happened here: just don�t ask one about the other, �cause You�d never get an honest answer..
Hope this answers your question