'Sib. 7.0: Gershwin's American In Paris - Taxi Horns?'

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Sib. 7.0: Gershwin's American In Paris - Taxi H... - dhirshfield, 15 Jun 01:44AM
     Re: Sib. 7.0: Gershwin's American In Paris - Ta... - Adrian Drover, 15 Jun 05:58AM

Sib. 7.0: Gershwin's American In Paris - Taxi Horns?
Posted by dhirshfield - 15 Jun 01:44AM
Hi all,
I've searched this forum and haven't found anything related.
I'm wondering how to reproduce, during playback, the well-known taxi horns in Gershwin's American in Paris.

The instrument should be pitched percussion, since there are four distinct taxi horns noted in the score, although they appear on a single-line staff with the other percussion instruments. The attached image shows an example, from page 4 of the 1930 score, for the first taxi horn.

Has anyone got any suggestion?

The following article contains an interesting discussion of the pitches for the various taxi horns in the piece:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/theater/have-we-been-playing-gershwin-wrong-for-70-years.html
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Re: Sib. 7.0: Gershwin's American In Paris - Taxi Horns?
Posted by Adrian Drover - 15 Jun 05:58AM
If you can't find a suitable percussion instrument, I might suggest 2 trombones or maybe 2 saxes playing a semitone apart.
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Sib. 7.0: Gershwin's American In Paris - Taxi H... - dhirshfield, 15 Jun 01:44AM
     Re: Sib. 7.0: Gershwin's American In Paris - Ta... - Adrian Drover, 15 Jun 05:58AM