Bandonion
Rheinisches System, 134 tones
bisonoric
(Collection Oriwohl, Nr. 213)
Manufacture: Ernst Louis Arnold (Carlsfeld) 31.10.1922
With later range expansion by Wilhelm König from 126 to 134 tones.
In times without microphones and electric amplifiers, sound horns were the preferred means to make oneself heard sufficiently. Accordingly it was then also called a trumpet or trombone bandonion.
Left side:
With the two outer rows left, the tone stock was expanded later.
Executed by the Berlin bandonion maker Wilhelm König.
Right side
A musical bouquet of flowers on the right side.
A musical bouquet of flowers on the left side.
Youth and loudness - often a couple in the past too.
Here in the form of eight attachable Cone.
But there is more:
Then funnels are offered by Walter Uhlemann from Leipzig.
The harmonica players were also allowed to upgrade. Play me the Song of Death - as loud as possible...
The further inventive spirit of man soon made such refinements superfluous by decoupling the desire for increased volume from the instruments and understood it as a technical challenge in its own right.
