Lot number 3115 - Auction
SELTENES NORMAPHON JULIUS RUDOLF

RARE NORMAPHONE JULIUS RUDOLF Gothar, around 1924 Brass, partly nickel-plated, 3 rotary valves, with mouthpiece. H. 50 cm, W. 20 cm, D. 13 cm. The normaphone or jazzophone is an almost forgotten instrument, a rotary valve trumpet in saxophone form. The normaphone was invented by the Markneukirchen instrument maker Richard Oskar Heber (1872-1938) and manufactured and marketed in the Vogtland region of Saxony through musical instrument dealers based there. The saxophone-shaped instrument was a fashionable instrument of the 1920s and 1930s and was occasionally used in jazz bands. In 1872, musician and instrument maker Julius Rudolph founded a musical instrument shop and workshop at Gretengasse 24 in Gotha. Besides brass instruments, woodwind and string instruments were also built. min. rubbed. Provenance: Private collection Düsseldorf.