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Soprano flugelhorn, E-flat

Maker Adolphe Sax

Date1859

Place MadeParis, France, Europe

Modelpetit bugle, petit saxhorn

Serial No.19170

SignedEngraved and stamped on bell: AS (monogram) [PA]RI[S] [within S] / No,, 19170. / Adolphe Sax Breveté Paris. / Fteur,, de la Mson,, Milre,, de l’Empereur. / 12 / 1 . 60
MarkingsStamped on valve casings and caps, respectively: 1, 2, 3
DescriptionBrass, single loop, telescopic tuning slide with ligature screw at leadpipe, three Périnet valves (1, ½, 1½), bottom-sprung, alignment by one key on piston (brass), windway 1-2-3.

Georges Kastner calls the e-flat soprano member of the saxhorn family "Petit Bugle" (Manuel Général de Musique Militaire, Paris 1848). In the same year, Adolphe Sax offered this instrument as "petit saxhorn en mi b Infanterie." However, contrary to the models shown in the 1848 Sax catalog and by Kastner, the present instrument has Périnet not Berlin valves.
DimensionsHeight: 356 mm
Tube length: 927 mm, 935 mm
Bore diameter (receiver, valve slides): 11 mm, 10.1 (first and second valve), 10.6 mm (third valve)
Bore diameter tuning slide (initial, minimum): 10.2 mm, 10.1 mm
Bell diameter: 134 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1998 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
Published ReferencesSabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 4: The Heydey of the Cornet (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2022), pp. 16-17, 19, 165, 264.

Evgenia Mitroulia, “Adolphe Sax’s Brasswind Production with a Focus on Saxhorns and Related Instruments,” doctoral dissertation, School of Arts, Culture and Environment, College of Humanities and Social Science, University of Edinburgh, 2011, p. 139 and 419.

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

Object number07307

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