Belloneon

Belloneon free-reed automatophone built by Johann Gottlieb Kaufmann, of Dresden, and his son Friedrich, in 1805, a forerunner of their famous automatic *trumpeter; 24 free metal reeds and a drum terminated in simulated trumpets and kettledrums, housed in a mahogany case and sounded by means of a pinned cylinder (37, 176). Sort by:DefaultAuthorTitleDateAscendingDescending Buchner, Alexandr. Mechanical Musical Instruments. London, n.d. Sachs, Curt. Reallexikon der Musikinstrumente. Berlin, 1913.