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Bicycle horn
Alternate name:Eisenbahnhupe
Date: 1910-1920 ca.
Place Made:Germany, Europe
Place Made:Netherlands, Europe
Serial No: 24 (maybe model or production number)
Signednone
MarkingsStamped 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.
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
Bell dimensions: 61 x 41 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1991, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
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.
Object number: 07042