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Keyed bugle, E-flat

Maker Elbridge G. Wright

Distributor Allen & Co.

Date1858-1860 ca.

Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America

Serial No.none

SignedEngraved on applied silver tag at bell: Thos B. Harris / Xenia, Ohio.
Engraved at bell underneath tag: J. W. [?] Davis [only visible in x-rays]
Engraved at bell below tag: Made by / E. G. WRIGHT, / FOR / Allen & Co. / Boston.
Markingsnone
DescriptionSilver, one-piece, single loop, separate telescopic tuning slide with fine-tuning device, eleven keys, lowest key open (no screw), all others closed; original wooden case.

This keyed bugle was originally owned by J. W. (?) Davis whose name is engraved directly on the bell. Later, it passed to Thomas B. Harris (ca. 1835-1911), whose name tag now covers the inscription of Davis's name.

The bells of the two E. G. Wright keyed bugles 07059 and 07060 were formed over the same mandrel. Both instruments also share the same keyhole positions and diameters.
DimensionsHeight: 338 mm
Tube length (with and without tuning slide): 989 mm, 915 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 10.8 mm, 10.2 mm
Bell diameter: 114 mm
Keyhole positions (from bell end): 84 mm, 158 mm, 195 mm, 234 mm, 289 mm, 350 mm, 380 mm, 450 mm, 479 mm, 509 mm, 546 mm
Keyhole diameter: 24 mm, 18 mm, 20 mm, 13 mm, 13 mm, 13 mm, 12 mm, 12 mm, 12 mm, 11 mm, 11 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1991 from Steve Dillon, Woodbridge, New Jersey.
Published ReferencesGarofalo, Robert and Mark Elrod. A Pictorial History of Civil War Era Musical Instruments & Military Bands (Charleston, West Virginia: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1985), p. 1.
Ralph T. Dudgeon. The Keyed Bugle second edition (Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2004), 250.
Robert E. Eliason. “Bugles Beyond Compare: The Presentation E-flat Keyed Bugle in Mid-Nineteenth-Century,” Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, XXXI (2005), 82, 126-128.
Sabine K. Klaus, "Presentation Keyed Bugle in E-flat by E. G. Wright made for Allen & Co., Boston, ca. 1858-1860," International Trumpet Guild Journal, June 2009, p. 63.
Sabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), pp. 228, 231–37, 241, 260.

Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999

Object number07060

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