423.121.22

Unkeyed bugle. Card index claims maker is not in Langwill, but 1993 ed. gives James Alexander 'Trumpet and Bugle-Horn Maker', and cites this instrument.

This bugle was probably made by James Alexander, who had a musical instrument shop on Leadenhall Street in London for most of the first half of the 19th century. The instrument was acquired by the Horniman Museum as part of the Percy Bull Collection. Bull compiled a catalogue of the instruments in his possession. In it he states that this is 'said to be the old bugle of the 1st Devon Yeomanry', a regiment that was disbanded in 1920.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
M15.10.48/208
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall without mouthpiece: 410 mm; bell diameter: 150 mm; sounding length: 1230 mm
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