Trompet-o-phone
A Trompet-o-phone was a musical experiment created in the late 19th century for especially tall, or long-armed people. The issue was that if anyone was too short or wanted to walk with it, it would either hit the ground or knock up against your legs as you walked. If the player tried to play it sideways, they would invariably jab the next player’s torso and throw them off kilter. Having found this in an all but abandoned musical shop under way too many derelict instruments, I brought this relic from a deranged inventors decrepit mind back to life mounted on a bevy of 1880’s musical ephemera. There are more tales to be told here if these musical denizens of lore could reach and ‘play it again Sam’.
48” x 18” x 12”
