Courtois Bugle
This brass is no longer for sale (sold on 2008-11-16)
Price : US $150.00
This is a nice Courtois Bugle or valvless trumpet, never seen another like it , it's an older Horn but in very nice condition. it comes with the original mouthpiece and a very nice soft gig type case, the horn has no dents or dings what so ever. it says Mod 49 on the pipe for the mouthpiece.
I'm not certain what key it was made to play in.
It's not a cheap Chinese horn, this horn was made by the oldes Instrument maker in the world in france, Courtois has been making high quality horns in France since the 1700's, not a typo, I said 1700's see below. this would make a nice Christmas present for anyone who plays brass.
In France the pioneering role of the Courtois family in the development of instrument manufacture is documented from the time of the French Revolution, and coincides with the beginnings of industrialization and the modernization of brass instruments. The first Courtois (first name unknown) founded a workshop in 1789 in the ''rue Mazarine'' in Paris. Two instruments from this time are extant: a horn (Berlin) and a ''cavalry trumpet having belonged to the courier for the parliamentary officer sent by Napoleon Bonaparte to St John of Acre (Egypt), occupied by his troops in 1799'' (currently in the recently inaugurated Music Museum in Paris).
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