Keyed bugle, C
Maker
Metzler & Company
Date1833-1840 ca.
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on garland: Metzler & Co,, / London.DescriptionCopper, nickel-brass keys, brass trim, three-piece, single loop, tuning slide at receiver (telescopic slide lost), six keys, lowest key open (regulating screw), all others closed.
Metzler & Co. in London acted mostly as dealers, not makers. This keyed bugle is a typical German import. The design of the tuning slide receiver and the body with seperately manufactured bell are Saxon characteristics of the area around Markneukirchen.
DimensionsHeight: 425 mm
Tube length: 1220 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 12.2 mm, 11.9 mm
Bell diameter: 136 mm
Keyhole positions (from bell end): 105 mm, 196 mm, 251 mm, 293 mm, 423 mm, 463 mm
Keyhole diameter: 32 mm, 22 mm, 27 mm, 20 mm, 18 mm, 13 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1984 from Sotheby's, New York, New York.
Published ReferencesSotheby’s auction catalogue, Important Musical Instruments, New York, June 29, 1984, Various, no. 2.
Klaus, 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. 217–18, 220, 241, 258.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06869
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1825-1830 ca.