What Is This Instrument?
- DJC0189
- Posts: 16
- Joined: Apr 14, 2021
Came across this instrument with no manufacturer label or other identifying info on it whatsoever; I (and the guy I acquired it from) have been referring to it as a "tenor bugle" in the meantime. 8-inch bell, Db tuning. Anyone know where I could get more info on this horn?
I've attached 3 photos of the instrument in question, as well as a link to a Google Drive folder with a few videos of me tooting on it (all too big to post here). Let me know if y'all have any ideas!
-Dan
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I've attached 3 photos of the instrument in question, as well as a link to a Google Drive folder with a few videos of me tooting on it (all too big to post here). Let me know if y'all have any ideas!
-Dan
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- mcphatty00
- Posts: 120
- Joined: Apr 25, 2022
It looks like a straight euphonium but too small
- robcat2075
- Posts: 1867
- Joined: Sep 03, 2018
There was a time when "drum and bugle corps" used actual un-valved instruments.
Perhaps that horn is part of that?
I've read that all began to change after someone monkeyed with a bugle tuning slide enough to get a couple of half steps and played step-wise melodies at competitions.
Perhaps that horn is part of that?
I've read that all began to change after someone monkeyed with a bugle tuning slide enough to get a couple of half steps and played step-wise melodies at competitions.
- harrisonreed
- Posts: 6479
- Joined: Aug 17, 2018
It's not a trombone, that much is certain. You have diverged from the path.
- rdalton
- Posts: 16
- Joined: Oct 23, 2020
That's odd. There was an old horn that looked like that in an antique shop in south Jersey for years. It was listed as "Tuba - $120". No longer there. I always thought that someone "repaired" it without putting the valves back.
- Finetales
- Posts: 1482
- Joined: Mar 23, 2018
It's certainly not an old drum corps bugle, as the bell still points up. The only thing I could possibly think of if it was made this way from the factory is a lower voice to play with those little Spanish one-rotor bugles in Db/C.
I think it's much more likely that it's just a modified baritone horn. Someone chopped off the valve section/main tuning slide/original leadpipe to use on a project and threw on some tubing they had lying around to be the new straight leadpipe.
I think it's much more likely that it's just a modified baritone horn. Someone chopped off the valve section/main tuning slide/original leadpipe to use on a project and threw on some tubing they had lying around to be the new straight leadpipe.
- Leanit
- Posts: 160
- Joined: Sep 04, 2018
Looks like a crappy baritone horn that somebody sectioned the valves out of and pieced it back together with those crooked sprinkler joints.
Options: Lamp, spittoon, urinal..
Options: Lamp, spittoon, urinal..
- Doug_Elliott
- Posts: 4155
- Joined: Mar 22, 2018
A clue would be what key it's in. Could be modified from either a bell up baritone or a bell front bugle. The leadpipe looks out of place for the rest of it.