Half-moon bugle horn, C
Maker
Ulyate
Date1800 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
ModelHanoverian Halbmond
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on receiver ferrule: ULYATEMarkingsnone
DescriptionCopper; one continuous wide-conical tube segment, no joint under ball; brass garland, ball, and ferrule; Saxon rim with iron wire insert.
The half-moon or demilune bugle, also known as “Hanoverian bugle” for its use in Hanoverian military bands since 1758, reached England by 1764. The great majority of surviving half-moon bugles comes from Germany, where the instrument is used in the Brackenjagd (hunt with Bracke-dogs) to the present day. The stamp Ulyate may refer to William Phillips Ulyate (1765–1849).
DimensionsHeight: 467 mm
Tube length: 1181 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 11.7 mm, 11.1 mm
Bell diameter: 211 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 2008 from Tony Bingham, London, England. Previously owned by Guy Oldham, 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. 198-99, 220, 267; Volume 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), p. 192.
Rice, Albert, "Curtis Janssen and a Selection of Outstanding Brasses at the Fiske Museum, The Claremont Colleges, California," Historic Brass Society Journal 17 (2005), p. 110, footnote 10.
Brownlow, Art. The Last Trumpet: A History of the English Slide Trumpet (Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon Press, 1996), p. 236.
Waterhouse, William. The New Langwill Index (London: Tony Bingham, 1993), p. 409.
Langwill, Lyndesay G. An Index of Musical Wind Instrument Makers, 6th edition (Edinburgh: Lindsay & Co. Ltd., 1980), p. 181.
Catalog of the Musical Instrument Exhibition (Sussex: Expo Sussex, 1968), 7, no. 66.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 2008
Object number13564
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