Posted 9 years ago
CAsun
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Hello,
I just bought this at a garage sale because the seller said it was an antique from the Civil War and that it was a bugle.
I did some research on Internet, and I believe it is, in fact, a keyed trumpet. It has one valve and 3 slides - none of which move or detach.
It is 22 1/4" long and looks old.
Does anyone know what kind of instrument it is and if such an instrument was indeed used in the Civil War?
It has a number etched onto the single cylinder valve: 4348.
Thanks for any info to solve this mystery.
Not a bugle. Maybe possibly a CW band instrument, but wouldn't get my hopes up.
Try looking for marching bugle. I'm thinking 1920's.
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Like this:
http://cderksen.home.xs4all.nl/Conn86L1923image.html
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Nice find! This is a 1-valve bugle. The valve probably shifts it from G to D. With the slide pulled it goes from F to C instead. Quite a few manufacturers used this design, if you can't find any label on it a so called stencil horn. Conn produced a similar model. It's not a keyed trumpet or keyed bugle as these had holes and keys much like a saxophone. My guess is that this horn is from around WWII or so.
Link to a similar one: http://www.trumpetmaster.com/vb/f140/off-beaten-track-leedy-1-piston-64505.html
Sorry, didn't see tubeamp's link first. Pretty much says the same.
@OlofZ thank you, at least now I know someone read what I posted;)
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Thank you for all this knowledge on this rather old instrument! No label on it, so all your ideas are very insightful and give more historical meaning to the instrument, even if it doesn't work. Thank you again!
So what's not working? Everything stuck or is it plugged? WD-40 should do the trick if you're refering to the slides. Spray a little bit now and then over a few days where the slides meet the tubing.