Flugelhorn, B-flat
Trade Name
Lignatone
Date1970 ca.
Place MadeKraslice (Graslitz), Czechoslovakia, Europe
ModelModel no. 325
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell: [lion] / LignatoneMarkingsStamped on leadpipe ferrule: MADE IN / CZECHO / SLOVAKIA
Stamped on horizontal clock-spring bar and second valve casing: 57B
Stamped on first and third valve casings: 57
Stamped on lower valve caps and push rods, respectively: .57, ..57B, 57
DescriptionBrass (body), German silver (some ferrules, valve parts, mounts, one brace, finger ring), single loop, telescopic tuning slide at leadpipe, three mechanical linkage rotary valves (1, ½, 1½) with horseshoe stop and clock-spring return, windway 1-2-3.
Telescopic brass tuning slide, fixed with ligature screw at leadpipe.
Silver-plated brass flugelhorn mouthpiece.
Lignatone was a trade mark of Amati, a cooperative of expropriated Graslitz firms, including F. X. Hüller, A. K. Hüttl, and Bohland & Fuchs. The Amati Cooperative existed between 1947 and 1989.
DimensionsHeight: 445 mm
Tube length: 1293 mm
Bore diameter (initial, valve slides): 11.1 mm
Bore diameter (tuning slide, initial, minimum): 10.8 mm, 9.8 mm
Bell diameter: 145 mm
ProvenancePurchased from Lark in the Morning, Mendocino, California, 1989.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06958
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