The cuckoo clock was well established in the Black Forest by the mid 19th century, but a new product was needed to capture new markets. Jakob Bäuerle in Furtwangen had the idea of using a current of air to sound a trumpet instead of the normal organ pipe of the cuckoo clock, and built the first trumpeter clock in 1857. The figure 'blowing' the trumpet was of a lookout man on the railway who blew his horn to warn men working on the track of an approaching train. The following year a model was produced that played a tune, with the figure in the form of a postilion, a soldier or a Tyrolese. The clocks were expensive, and not many were made; they never challenged the popularity of the cuckoo clock, which is still with us today. The centre of manufacture was Furtwangen, and the clocks were made in decreasing numbers into the present century.