Bicycle horn
Alternate name(s)
- Eisenbahnhupe
Date1910-1920 ca.
Place MadeGermany, Europe
Place MadeNetherlands, Europe
Serial No.24 (maybe model or production number)
SignednoneMarkingsStamped at blowing end: 24
DescriptionBrass (body, reed), nickel-silver (reed cap); single free reed; short resonator with oval bell.
A very similar signal free-reed instrument “mit fertiger lauter Stimme” (with ready loud voice) was advertised as "Eisenbahnhupe" (railroad whistle) in Julius Heinrich Zimmermann’s catalog of musical instruments, published in Leipzig in 1908.
DimensionsHeight: ca. 258 mm
Bell dimensions: 61 x 41 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1991, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 1: Instruments of the Single Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2012), pp. 234, 270.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07042
On View
Not on view
1910-1920 ca.
