Firth, Hall & Pond 7-Keyed Bugle
date: label: date made
content: 1832-1848
name: label: maker
content: Firth, Hall & Pond
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This 7-keyed bugle was made by Firth, Pond & Hall in New York, around 1832 to 1848. It is a bugle in C, with a B-flat crook, made of copper with brass keys, bell garland, and lead pipe. The bell is inscribed:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Firth, Hall & Pond<br>New York</p>
label: Description
content: <p>John Firth (1789-1864) began making musical instruments in New York in 1815. Five years later, William Hall (1796-1874) set up his musical instrument firm in New York. Around the same time in 1820, Firth and Hall formed a partnership. Sylvanus Billings Pond (1792-1871) subsequently joined the company in 1832. In addition to brasswind instruments, Firth, Pond & Hall made woodwind instruments, pianos, and guitars. The firm imported musical goods and became very prominent music publishers. By 1847, the firm was dissolved.</p>
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Bugles
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.76.32
label: accession number
content: 1977.0294
label: catalog number
content: 76.32
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bugle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: copper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 17 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 43.815 cm x 13.97 cm