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Keyed bugle in B-flat

(French, active before 1803–before 1862)
about 1825
Object PlaceParis, France
Medium/TechniqueBrass
DimensionsLength 56 cm (22 1/16 in.)
Credit LineLeslie Lindsey Mason Collection
Accession number17.1971
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMusical instruments
InscriptionsStamped on bell rim: COURTOIS / NEVEU AINE A PARIS
ProvenanceFrancis W. Galpin (1858-1945), Hatfield Regis, England; 1916, sold by Francis W. Galpin to William Lindsey (1858-1922), Boston, Massachusetts; 1916, gift of William Lindsey, in memory of his daughter, Leslie Lindsey Mason, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 5, 1916)