Keyed bugle, E-flat
Date1835-1840 ca.
Place MadeWinchester, New Hampshire, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedunsignedMarkingsnone
DescriptionCopper, brass keys, nickel-brass trim (not original), one-piece, single loop, separate tuning slide at receiver, nine keys, lowest key open (no screw), all others closed.
The attribution of this keyed bugle to Graves & Co. is based on very characteristic decorative features, such as the shape of the finger support holder and the decorated key mounts. Another keyed bugle in the NMM collection (01339), signed by Graves & Co., shares features such as key-hole position and size, width of bows and thickness of bell material, as well as the bell contour, suggesting that it was formed over the same mandril as the present instrument. That example is made of copper with brass trimming, supporting the idea that the nickel-silver parts on the present instrument are not original.
DimensionsHeight: 340 mm
Tube length (instrument, instrument and tuning slide): 895 mm, 1013 mm
Bore diameter (initial): 10.4 mm
Bell diameter: 107 mm
Keyhole positions (from bell end): 86 mm, 155 mm, 195 mm, 236 mm, 292 mm, 341 mm, 367 mm, 452 mm, 512 mm
Keyhole diameter: 24 mm, 19.4 mm, 21.6 mm, 14.5 mm, 14.9 mm, 13 mm, 12.6 mm, 12.3 mm, 11.5 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1987 from Robert Hazen, Bethesda, Maryland.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. 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. 210, 226–27, 241, 258.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06895
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