Carl Piglich
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Jump to navigationJump to searchCarl Piglich, Kingaroy, Qld provided details of some of the Australian tunes in this archive.
Born in the mid 1880s, Carl Piglich emigrated to Australia as a young man prior to WWI; he found work clearing scrub around southern Queensland. He arrived with an accordion and a bunch of tunes and his ability to play them was and still is acknowledged as legendary. Piglich died in the late 1980s aged 104. - Mark Schuster [1]
He was interviewed by:
- Mark Schuster and Maria Zann between 1960 & 1965, [2], Dahms family musical recording (including Dahms, Meincke, Fechner and Piglich performances). Folkloric recording. Recordings made of Robert Dahms, in Southport, Qld, in the 1960s. Includes violin and piano duets by legendary German-Queensland 'fiddle master' Rudolf Meincke, with Mrs Meincke accompanying on piano; button accordion dance tunes played by Bill Fechner of Southport; button accordion tunes by Billy Dahms (some with violin accompaniment by Rudolf Meincke); recitations by Bobby Dahms and Carl Piglich; button accordion tunes played by the legendary accordion player Carl Piglich, some with daughter Grace Piglich singing; many other interesting German-Queensland items.
