Synthesizer Studio Bonn

Started out as Matten & Wiechers a workshop/manufacturer of custom synthesizers, reportedly first shop worldwide for synthesizers only - opened on September 3, 1971 in the basement below a pub on Kölnstrasse 47, Bonn. When they moved to Franzstraße 29 in Bonn later in the 70's, the shop/retail part of the business was named Synthesizer Studio Bonn. Closed in 1999. Persons involved in the business were (in order of appearance): Dirk Matten Hans-Joachim "Hajo" Wiechers Norbert Reiß Dieter Roggendorf Wieland Samolak Jürgen Krämer† Gerhard Behles Achim Lenzgen Karl von der Linden† Hans Brachwitz Stefan Beier Winfried Schuld Stefan Lindlahr Anselm Rößler Dorothée Hahne Photography for adverts: Dieter Stork Cornelia Danetzky Klaus Weidner Image editing and graphics for ads: Rozsa Mediendienste, Köln Sandor Rozsa Bernd Schmitz Detlef Rymus Alexandra Hohn Elke Wolter Phone operator: Herbert Neumann