Bicycle buglet, B-flat
Maker
Henry Keat & Sons
Date1885 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell: THE / BUGLET / 4 TURNS / Prize Medal / HY KEAT & SONS / 105 / MATTIAS RD / STOKE NEWINGTON G: N / LONDONMarkingsnone
DescriptionGerman-silver-plated brass; four loops; four tube sections (two cylindrical, two conical) overlap without ferrules, resulting in a stepped taper; oval bell; no tuning slide; silver-plated brass mouthpiece chained to instrument.
Henry Keat & Sons produced bicycle buglets in the thousands to supply metropolitan cycling clubs.
DimensionsHeight: 164 mm
Tube length: 1368 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 9.9 mm, 9.4 mm
Bell diameter: 91/63 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1995 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 1: Instruments of the Single Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2012), pp. 221, 238-39, 267.
-------. “William Lander (1763-1843), Mere, Wiltshire: A Forgotten Musical Instrument Maker Rediscovered,” Galpin Society Journal 57 (May 2004), pp. 10 and 199.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07130
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