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Miniature bugle, g
Date: 1900 ca.
Place Made:England, Europe
Place Made:Markneukirchen, Saxony, Germany, Europe
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
DescriptionCopper, double loop with integral mouthpiece.
Bugle in miniature form, modeled after an English regimental bugle. Probably for educational purposes (early military education of boys) representing a toy instrument, or a collector’s item with purely ornamental value. Toy instruments of this kind were produced, for example, by the Deutsche Signal-Instrumentenfabrik Max B. Martin in Markneukirchen, Saxony.
Bugle in miniature form, modeled after an English regimental bugle. Probably for educational purposes (early military education of boys) representing a toy instrument, or a collector’s item with purely ornamental value. Toy instruments of this kind were produced, for example, by the Deutsche Signal-Instrumentenfabrik Max B. Martin in Markneukirchen, Saxony.
DimensionsHeight: 181 mm
Tube length: 758 mm
Bell diameter: 70 mm
Tube length: 758 mm
Bell diameter: 70 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1991 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
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. 222, 268.
Object number: 07045