Gesellschaft der Freunde alter Musikinstrumente

The Gesellschaft der Freunde alter Musikinstrumente (GEFAM; from German: Society of friends of old musical instruments) was founded in 1951 in Zürich, Switzerland, by a number of music lovers and collectors of historical musical instruments. It is still the only society in the German-speaking part of Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein) that is concerned mainly with old musical instruments and organology. Thanks to its base in Switzerland it has a multicultural and multilanguage

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The Gesellschaft der Freunde alter Musikinstrumente (GEFAM; from German: Society of friends of old musical instruments) was founded in 1951 in Zürich, Switzerland, by a number of music lovers and collectors of historical musical instruments. It is still the only society in the German-speaking part of Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein) that is concerned mainly with old musical instruments and organology. Thanks to its base in Switzerland it has a multicultural and multilanguage

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