Trumpeter (automatic)

Trumpeter (automatic) (Fr.: orguetrompette), automatophone imitating one or more trumpets; some show human figures purporting to play the instrs., but these are dummies, as all automatic trumpeters employ free reeds. In 1808 Friedrich Kaufmann of Dresden built an automatic trumpeter that he named salpingion; this was followed in 1812 by the *phonorganon of Robertson, and the *salpinorganon of Van Oeckelen in 1824, the same year that the Berlin clockmaker Kielblock produced a similar instr. See…