Bugle?

[Ashc]

Hey so I have one more item to be identified, my friend who has the shadow box also has a bugle that was given with the box. Not sure if its civil war era/genuine etc. Alls I know is it feels really heavy.

Here is a picture of this a well. Again any help is much appreciated.

Ash

 

[John Winn]

I only have sketchy knowledge of such things but to my eyes your bugle:

is not a military instrument;
appears to be a fox hunt horn although I couldn't begin to date it.

Good luck. I imagine somebody who really knows will post eventually.

 

[Northern Light]

I only have sketchy knowledge of such things but to my eyes your bugle:

is not a military instrument;
appears to be a fox hunt horn although I couldn't begin to date it.

Good luck. I imagine somebody who really knows will post eventually.

My thought too, JW. It might however have been used by a Southern unit, as they fox hunted there. I doubt it though as it does not have much of a range.

 

[John Winn]

My thought too, JW. It might however have been used by a Southern unit, as they fox hunted there. I doubt it though as it does not have much of a range.

I suppose although I've never seen one in a museum or in an illustration. Surely we have a bugle expert; we've got 'em on every other imaginable thing !

 

[Northern Light]

I suppose although I've never seen one in a museum or in an illustration. Surely we have a bugle expert; we've got 'em on every other imaginable thing !

Send for the Bugle Expert!!!!!

 

[E_just_E]

+1
That's a horn. Not a bugle. And if you try to blow on it and does not work, it is decorative. Likely 20th century. (not fox)

 

[John Hartwell]

Seems to be the type known in Europe as a Post Horn. Certainly not capable of much in the way of "bugle calls." Its limited range make it more of a noise maker than a musical instrument. I doubt very much any military use.

 

[John Winn]

Had to have a look and sure enough it matches pictures of a post horn and not a fox horn (which has no bends I now know).

 

[ole]

It's a hunting horn.

 

[Northern Light]

It's a hunting horn.

Just knew you would be along, Ole!

 

[Ashc]

Woah great response, thinking it does look just like the post horn used on a few countries postal services. As for the blowing on it to see if its decorative, i like that, feel silly for not thinking of that first!

 

[M E Wolf]

Just had an inquiry about a bugle and have a page that describes what is what by a International expert on bugles:

http://civilwartalk.com/threads/authentic-bugle.104900/page-2#post-966883

It is a multiple page post -- describes what are horns, etc.

Yours looks like a stage horn...judging from the photograph of horns and bugles.

M. E. Wolf

 

[ole]

All brass instruments without valves are limited to four notes. Think of taps. 1-1-2, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 2-3-4, 3-2-1, 1-2-3.

Depending on your chops, you can take it up or down an octave or two, but they are still the same four notes. And, if you are skilled, you can slide a little, as illustrated with the "going home" fox horn video.

But, there is no way to play the bugle as was done in "Here to Eternity."

Now we can introduce valves. Same principle, but the valves lengthen or shorten the distance the sound travels, so you can get the notes between the four.

That sounds complicated, doesn't it? Bugle notes as base. Reroute it through a longer or shorter tube. Voila, it is a different sound than a straight bugle can make.

But it remains that this is where a bugle stops and valved brass instruments started -- you can get all the sounds because your are essentially playing several bugles at once.

 

[rebelatsea]

Woah great response, thinking it does look just like the post horn used on a few countries postal services. As for the blowing on it to see if its decorative, i like that, feel silly for not thinking of that first!

I can say it's not an English post horn - they were straight.