Graves & Co. 9-Keyed Bugle
date: label: date made
content: 1837 - 1850
name: label: maker
content: Graves & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This 9-keyed bugle was made by Graves and Co. in Winchester, New Hampshire around 1835-1850. It is an E-flat bugle made of copper with brass keys, all missing. The bugle is marked:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Graves & Co.<br>Winchester, N.H.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The accession paperwork indicates that this bugle was used by David Johnson, leader of the Old Minaville Band, in Minaville, New York. </p>
label: Description
content: <p>Samuel Graves (1794-1878) began making instruments in West Fairlee, Vermont from 1824 to 1830. He moved to his shop to Winchester, New Hampshire in 1830 and was joined by his partners, Cyrus Graves (Samuel‘s brother), Charles Alexander, and Henry P. Anderson. The company was owned by Samuel Graves and Charles Alexander, and known as “Graves & Alexander” and later as “Graves & Co.” Brass instrument maker Samuel W. Richardson, from Rochester, New York was a partner in the company from 1832 to 1839.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The company made mostly woodwind instruments, and after London instrument maker James Keat went to work for the firm around 1837, Graves & Co. began producing brass instruments. After 1845, the company exclusively made brass instruments. Graves and Company would continue with various owners and name changes in Boston from 1850 to 1869, after which it merged with E. G. Wright & Co., Henry Esbach, and Louis F. Hartman to form the Boston Musical Instrument Manufactory.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Hampshire, Winchester
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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
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Densmore, Frances. Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum.
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Percy M. Van Epps
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.095580
label: accession number
content: 27073
label: catalog number
content: 95580
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: 13 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 34.925 cm x 10.795 cm x 16.51 cm