Mechanical trumpeter
The mechanical trumpeter is a mechanical music machine from the early 19th century that is on display in the Deutsches Museum in Munich .
The mechanical trumpeter by Friedrich Kaufmann is dated to the year 1810. The mechanical trumpeter and the panharmonicon of Johann Nepomuk Mälzel were modeled and improved by Johann Friedrich Kaufmann and his father Johann Gottfried Kaufmann . Mälzel performed his trumpeter in Nuremberg in 1807, also in Paris, Vienna in 1808 and in Munich in 1809.
Johann David Kaufmann also invented the harmonichord .
Elaborate music boxes with mechanical program sequences are seen today as early forerunners of computers and programming.
The functionality of the mechanical trumpeter is roughly described on the website of the Deutsches Museum. Accordingly, whipping tongues were used to generate the sound .
See also
literature
- Perfecting the organ or the panharmonic. In: Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff (Hrsg.): Annals of the progress, newest inventions and discoveries in science, arts, manufactories, factories and crafts. Volume 1. Georg Adam Keyser, Erfurt 1809, p. 861; on Wikisource . "4. Ebenderselbe (Mälzel) has again completed a musical work of art. "
- Rebecca Wolf: Friedrich Kaufmann's trumpeter automaton. A musical experiment around 1810 (= Archive for Musicology . Supplement 68). Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-515-09381-1 .
References and comments
- ↑ “In 1808 Mälzel traveled with his famous panharmonicon, and with his musical automaton, the trumpeter, to Paris, where he sold it for 100,000 francs; with this, however, almost even greater approval than with the Panharmonikon, from all art and music connoisseurs. ”In: Kunst- und Gewerbeblatt des Polytechnisches Verein für das Kingdom Bayern , Volume 4, 1818, S. 224, GoogleBooks
- ↑ Carl Maria von Weber : The Trumpeter . In: Allgemeine Musikische Zeitung , Volume 14, October 7, 1812, No. 41. GoogleBooks
- ^ The mechanical trumpeter by Friedrich Kaufmann. Deutsches Museum (accessed April 18, 2015)