Keyed bugle, C
Maker
Charles Pace
Date1841
Place MadeLondon, England, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on silver nameplate at bell: IMPROVED & MADE BY / Chas. Pace / Musical Instrument Maker, / to her Majesty's Guards, / 49, King Street, Westminster.MarkingsOwner's name engraved on bell above and below nameplate: 1841 / Joseph Dore. / Swineford.
DescriptionCopper with brass trim and keys, two-piece, single loop, tuning slide at receiver, eight keys, lowest key open (regulating screw), all others closed.
This keyed bugle shows typical Charles Pace ‘arrow’ design touchpieces. The signature likely refers to an improved telescopic tuning slide with grooved guide.
The original owner, commemorated in the bell engraving, was the butcher Joseph Thompson Dore (1824-1912) in Swineford near Bitton in south Gloustershire, England. Swineford is located on the River Avon near Saltford Mill, one of the important brass mills of the time.
DimensionsHeight: 437 mm
Tube length: 1180 mm
Bore diameter (initial): 12.8 mm
Bell diameter: 162 mm
Keyhole positions (from bell end): 109 mm, 187 mm, 250 mm, 296 mm, 388 mm, 453 mm, 489 mm, 597 mm
Keyhole diameters: 30 mm, 26 mm, 28 mm, 26 mm, 18 mm, 16 mm, 13 mm, 13 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1996 from Edward Tarr, Rheinfelden-Eichsel, Germany.
Published ReferencesKlaus, 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. 201, 202–3, 220, 241, 259.
-------.“Die englische Klappentrompete: Eine Neueinschätzung,” in: Romantic Brass. Ein Blick zurück ins 19. Jahrhundert, ed. by Claudio Bacchiagaluppi and Martin Skamletz. Musikforschung der Hochschule der Künste Bern, vol. 4 (Schliengen: Edition Argus, 2015), p. 241
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07172
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1825-1830 ca.