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@bloke, is this the same bugle you used or close to it?

matt g wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 9:52 am @bloke, is this the same bugle you used or close to it?

That's an E-flat...
They are more common, and the tuning characteristics (in my experience, having tooted on a few front-action and top-action versions) is somewhat curious...as are the tuning characteristics of most old "monster" E-flat tubas.
(In my experience, it took the English to figure out how to get bigger E-flat tubas to play well-enough in-tune to offer relative care-free playing.)
Also, that's a few decades older than the (BB-flat) instrument I reconfig'ed.


Sam Gnagey might want that bell - for one of his King C things...and someone repairing/restoring a 345 might like to have some of those brace socket-flanges. If (??) that's a 19" bell, someone might want that case for brass band run-outs/road-trips - if their 3+1 comp E-flat fits into it.

My neck of the woods!

The engraving looks to be deeper and crisper (aka, less buffed off) than the engraving on the Holton bell I've got on my King BBb.