I appreciated Gerhard Dangel-Reese's discourse on the variations in the
spelling and alphabetization of names.  I have just finished final editing
of the new edition of my Reed Organ Atlas, which purports to list all
reed organ makers in the world.  Such a problem dealing with the English
language (which is a mess all by itself), as well as German, French,
Swedish, Finnish, Hungarian, Japanese, etc.

Is 'de Wit' listed as "de Wit" or as "Wit, de"?  Different readers have
different expectations.  In the end I concluded that I couldn't do
everyone's research down to the last detail and that a certain amount
of ingenuity and persistence is required of the reader.  So the listings
are not consistent from the viewpoint of any one language.  I make heavy
use of cross-references and let it go at that.  Even more difficult are
the city names and streets as the countries changed names: Kutna Hora vs
Kuttenberg for example.

Read the Atlas. The plot is weak but there are a lot of great characters!

Fritz Gellerman

 [ I'm sure it's better than my dictionary, which has no plot, but
 [ "what a great vocabulary!"  Where can we purchase the new edition of
 [ "Reed Organ Atlas", Fritz?    -- Robbie