What ya think?

Rick F · Post by **Rick F** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:30 pm

Might make a nice lamp

Seriously, it looks like a 'G' bugle—but there's only one valve!? The old 'G' baritone I played back in the 60's at least had a rotor too.

The Jackson · Post by **The Jackson** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:51 pm

What's all that jazz on the mouthpiece?

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:11 pm

The Jackson wrote:What's all that jazz on the mouthpiece?

Traditional bugles, keeping in mind their military use, and especially their historic battlefield use, used to have their mouthpieces chained to the instrument so they didn't get lost, but could still be removed for cleaning.

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:26 pm

I bought a couple of them two weeks ago. They're OK. I don't know what I'm going to do with them. Maybe they'll come in handy for parts. Dunno. Make the guy an offer and he'll probably take it. I think I gave $25 each for two of them.

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:48 pm

DavidK wrote:Yep - it is a G-Baritone bugle.

Predates the "innovation" of adding the second valve in the drum corps timeline.

But is doesn't appear to have a "Slip-slide" either. Those usually had a sizable finger ring for playing a few of those half tones in he mid and upper register.

The open bugle has a tuning slide. The piston circuit does not. Go figure!