The instruments with the Inv. 1990.180. 1.-23. were played in the Schalmei-Musikverein Basel-Stadt It had been founded in 1926 as the 'Workers and Cyclists Music'.
When the group was dissolved, the instruments were given to our collection while the archives of the society were given to the Archives of the city of Basel.

Photo for the-tenth anniversary of the "Workers and Cyclists Music" (1936)

The Schalmei-Musikverein in the uniform of the 1980s