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Bicycle horn
Alternate name:Eisenbahnhuppe
Date: 1910-1920 ca.
Place Made:Germany, Europe
Place Made:Netherlands, Europe
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
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.
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
Bell diameter: 164 mm
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: 07043