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Keyed bugle.

Technical description: Copper, with silver garland, stay, mouthpiece receiver sheath, saddles and hallmarked silver keys and finger-rest; with brass chimneys. A finger-rest passes over the 3rd key from the bell. The keys with leaf springs SATK, the spring ends running in channels inside the keymounts.The open-standing bell key has a screw adjustment to regulate opening.; Nominal pitch: C.; Type or system: 10 keys.; Keyhead type: flat round with reflector discs screwed to cover the centres of the leather pads.; Keymount type: saddles.; ; ;

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  • Inscriptions:Engraved on mouthpiece receiver sheath parallel with bore "Macfarlane's Improved / MANUFACTURED by I.|KOHLER, HENRIETTA ST COVENT GARDEN / London"; the keys and finger-rest hallmarked incorporating "IK" and the letter "u" (indicating 1835).
  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.213-71 Labrosones with fingerholes and with keys, with (wider) conical bore
  • Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
  • Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to 5th key 441; bell 152.; Sounding length: maximum 1196.; Bore: instrument body at c|20mm from shank/crook receiver (local minimum bore), 11.8; at 598mm from bell end, c|24.4; at c|345mm from bell end, 34.5; at 11mm from bell end, 118.B|=|0.46 (all keys closed).Bell cutoff |1000|Hz.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. 12.5 - 11.8