7-Keyed Bugle
date: label: date made
content: 1860s
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This 7-keyed bugle was sold by the firm of J. Howard Foote in New York, around 1860 to 1890. Many of the brasswind instruments sold by J. Howard Foote were made by made by John F. Stratton. This bugle was likely made in the 1860s. It is a C bugle, the B-flat lead pipe is missing, made of copper with brass keys, fittings, and bell garland.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>J. Howard Foote was a prominent seller and importer of musical instruments with shops in New York and Chicago from 1863 to 1894. In a letter dated 1882 to the Smithsonian, Foote wrote “most of my goods, though not of my manufacture, are made to order by different makers from drawings, descriptions and in some cases models furnished by me.”</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.095652
label: accession number
content: 27329
label: catalog number
content: 95652
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: 17 in x 5 3/4 in x 8 in; 43.18 cm x 14.605 cm x 20.32 cm