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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:30 pm
by Rick F
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:51 pm
by The Jackson
What's all that jazz on the mouthpiece?
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:11 pm
by iiipopes
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.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:26 pm
by Dan Schultz
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.
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:48 pm
by Dan Schultz
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!