Bicycle horn
Alternate name(s)
- Eisenbahnhuppe
Date1910-1920 ca.
Place MadeGermany, Europe
Place MadeNetherlands, Europe
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SignednoneMarkingsnone
DescriptionBrass (reed and resonator), rubber (balloon-shaped pump)
Simple free-reed signal instrument in which the single-reed is activated by a rubber air pump. This model is listed as “Eisenbahnhuppe” (train whistle) in Julius Heinrich Zimmermann’s Musikinstrumente, a catalog of musical instruments, published in Leipzig in 1908.
DimensionsHeight (including rubber ball): 361 mm
Bell diameter: 164 mm
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 number07043
On View
Not on view
1910-1920 ca.
