Pipes of Mengelberg

20 July 2024

Willem Mengelberg, conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra for fifty years before the war, was also a dedicated pipe smoker. As a reminder of this illustrious conductor, his smoking chair still stands in the concert hall. Today a grandniece of Mengelberg presented us with a group of pipes that belonged to him. In addition to his beloved Peterson pipe, we chose the typical local shapes that were popular in Switzerland at the time. These are pipes that were kept in his house Chasa Mengelberg in Zuort, Switzerland. They are an appropriate addition to our twentieth-century briars, especially because with their Swiss twist they are unexpected and unique in design. Interestingly, these pipes were produced in Germany, Switzerland and France.

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