Perforated tape trumpet
The punched tape trumpet is a music automaton controlled by breathing air , which plays melodies without any prior knowledge of the player. It was sold around 1900 under the brand name "Trombino".
Like a harmonica , the tones are produced by reeds .
Outwardly it resembles a trumpet, but instead of the valves it has a holder for a punched tape on which the melody is stored. "The mechanically scanned paper strip opens valve flaps and blowing it into the mouthpiece makes resounding tongues sound."
In a newspaper advertisement for the company Winkler & Co., Munich from around 1900, it says: “The Trombino is the most sensational invention of the present and is causing a sensation everywhere, all the more so when someone in a society suddenly appears Virtuoso performs while no one had any idea of this skill before. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Quoted from: Siegfried Wendel: The mechanical music cabinet. Harenberg Kommunikation, Dortmund 1983, ISBN 3-88379-365-5 .