A New or Improved Musical Instrument for Use in Teaching Bugle and Trumpet Calls for Military Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 20th Sept., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Nov., 1888
RESERVE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Musical Instrument for Use in Teaching Bugle
and Trumpet Calls for Military Purposes.
1 JAMES POLLOCK BROWNE of 77 Jamaica Street in the City of Glasgow, Musical
Instrument Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object to provide simple and inexpensive means for use
by military officers and others desirous of learning the bugle and trumpet calls usually
employed to convey orders to troops in the field; and the Invention consists in adapting
for this purpose, and employing in lieu of a bugle or trumpet, a musical wind instru-
ment of the kind known as an ::
orginnette. The range of the orginnette is under
the invention confined to the seven or other number of notes required for the several
bugle and trumpet calls, five notes of bugle pitch being in general provided for the
bugle calls and two additional notes to cover the range required for trumpet calls.
The class of orginnette preferably used is that in which a rotating perforated disc or
card is employed to bring the proper notes into play and the cards or discs are
suitably perforated to correspond to the musical notes of the several calls used for
military purposes. The musical notes may be produced by the use of reeds in the
usual way, or in lieu of reeds the instrument may be fitted with organ pipes for this
purpose.
Dated this Twentieth day of December 1887
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Musical Instrument for Use in Teaching Bugle
and Trumpet Calls for Military Purposes.
I, JAMES POLLOCK BROWNE of 77 Jamaica Street in the City of Glasgow, Musical
Instrument Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This Invention has for its object to provide simple and inexpensive means for use
by military officers and others desirous of learning the bugle and trumpet calls usually
employed to convey orders to troops in the field; and the invention consists in
adapting for this purpose and employing in lieu of a bugle or trumpet a musical wind
instrument of the kind known as an orginnette." The range of the orginnette is
under the invention confined to the six or other number of notes required for the
several bugle and trumpet calls, five notes of bugle pitch being in general provided
for the bugle calls and one or two additional notes to cover the range required for
trumpet calls. The class of orginnette preferably used is that in which a rotating
perforated disc or card is employed to bring the proper notes into play and the cards
or discs are suitably perforated to correspond to the inusical notes of the several calls
used for military purposes. The musical notes may be produced by the use of reeds
in the usual way or in lieu of reeds the instrument may be fitted with organ pipes for
this purpose.
In the accompanying drawings figure 1 is an external plan of a modification of the
instrument constituting the invention, figure 2 is a vertical section of the same and
figure is a plan showing the instrument with the cover and music sheet or disc
removed. In its general arrangement and construction the instrument is similar to
the orginnette known as the " Ariston, the box or casing A being fitted with the
usual bellows B operated from the spindle C which through the gearing D turns the
disc E carrying the music sheet F. Six reeds Gare provided and are operated by
levers H by the perforations in the music sheet, there being six rows of perforations
and over the path of the same is placed the pressure bar I on which are six bearing
points resting on the music sheet.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
An orginnette constructed and adapted for teaching bugle and trumpet calls
substantially as hereinbefore described: