Flugelhorn
date: label: Date made
content: 1878 - 1882
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This flugelhorn was made around 1878 to 1882 and sold by the J. Howard Foote Company in New York and Chicago. It is a B-flat flugelhorn, over-the shoulder model, made of brass with nickel silver trim, with 3 string-action rotary valves. The bore of this instrument is quite small and cornet-like, and was sold as a cornet. This flugelhorn has an engraved medallion:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>TRADE<br> J.H.F.<br>NY&C<br>Mark</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Brass instruments bearing the medallion of J. Howard Foote were likely made for him by the firm of John Stratton or other factories in New York City.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>John Howard Foote (1833-1896) was a musical instrument dealer with shops in New York City and Chicago. This instrument, sold as a cornet (#5001), is listed in an 1880 J. Howard Foote catalog, sold for $15.00.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.072876
label: accession number
content: 12809
label: catalog number
content: 72876
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Flugelhorn
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nickel silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in x 8 in; 59.69 cm x 11.43 cm x 20.32 cm