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C1880 KEAT CYCLING BUGLE

c1880 CYCLING BUGLE Made by Henry Keat & Sons 3-Turn, Brass, 7 1/2" long - Bell 3 1/4" tall x 2" wide MADE BY Hy KEAT & SONS  105 MATTHIAS RD LONDON N FOR C.R. PERCIVAL, BOSTON

PAGE 2 A LONG FORGOTTEN 19TH CENTURY CYCLING RELIC By Carlton Hendricks       CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1   he following are pages from The American Bicycler on uniforms, officers, excursions, and bugle calls,...so you'll get the actual wordy, dry, maybe grammatically (laborious) correct instructions that cycling clubs were founded on.   It would be impractical to post all references to UNIFORMS, OFFICERS, EXCURSIONS, and BUGLE CALLS, in The American Bicycler. So I'm just posting enough pages to give a peak. Actually the subjects  intertwine and overlap throughout the book. I've posted links at the bottom of page 1 of this feature (previous page) to both the 1879 and 1880 volumes at Hathi Trust that will allow you to read it all on your PC monitor or smart phone...     HERE ARE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HOW TO ORGANIZE A CYCLING CLUB  IN THE 1880 EDITION OF THE AMERICAN BICYCLER   ....But a nearly uniform costume is desirable in many ways: it is sociable to have it, it lends a better  appearance to the club when riding together, and it affords a distinctive mark  of membership, and also of club-belonging, where there are several....       ....The captaincy is another important office. It was formerly, and is yet to some extent, the custom  for members to race for this position, the winner holding it for a term, at the end of which  another competition determined the successor...         ....If a horse, on meeting a bicycle, show signs of restiveness, it is not always wise to dismount  at once. To dismount suddenly is more likely to frighten a horse than to continue riding slowly by,  speaking to the horse as you do so....           ....At all club-meets, the bugle will sound the "assembly" five  minutes before the time appointed for the start....   REVEILLE STABLE CALL MESS ASSEMBLY BOOTS AND SADDLES  GALLOP  WALK  HALT  FORM TWOS QUICKSTEP  RIDE AT EASE  SINGLE FILE TATTOO  RETREAT  DISMOUNT            CLICK BELOW TO HEAR A SAMPLING OF ACTUAL BUGLE CALLS  USED BY AMERICAN CYCLING CLUBS OF THE 1880'S-90'S       AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POND HOW THE ENGLISH DID IT     1880 BUGLE CALLS  OF THE LONDON BICYCLE CLUB   Now that you have the basics from this cursory introduction...if you really want to learn about cycling bugles I highly recommend reading what I'm sure is the greatest article ever written on them...Bicycle Bugles and Bugling by Paul Schmidt...see here...actually it's closer to a scientific dissertation...discussing such nuances as how bugle length affects pitch...and so on...as well it gives practical views...   Besides learning to play the bugle adequately and memorizing the bugle calls, the bugler needs to be able to play credibly in the saddle while guiding the bicycle with one hand. Playing while riding is more difficult than playing while standing on the ground, so more practice while riding is important. The captain should audition an unknown bugler before parading; again, it is better to have no bugle calls that it is to have poorly played bugle calls, or to have a crash because the bugler is incapable of riding safely while playing - Bicycle Bugles and Bugling by Paul Schmidt A good bugler should arise from the ranks of those Wheelmen who are already experienced in the playing of upper range brass instruments, such as trumpets, cornets, French Horns, and of course the bugle itself. While it is possible for other to learn to play the bugle adequately, it takes considerable time and effort to develop the necessary embouchure (trained and strengthened facial muscles around the lips) required to produce clear and good sounding tones. - Bicycle Bugles and Bugling by Paul Schmidt     Watch this fascinating video to see  HOW A BUGLE IS MADE     Note, molten lead is poured into and allowed  to set in tubing, before forming into a bugle      As we begin wrapping this up...You probably didn't know it but you've been looking at cycling bugles for years...Most all cars today have it embossed or debossed on the steering wheel face...The cycling bugle icon was adopted by auto manufactures to visually I.D. the horn...I'm not sure when it started but I speculate since the 1980's......Even the Cushman electric carts where I work have them...The designer was probably told to come up with something smart and snazzy to I.D. the car horn...It's only natural since horn usage for transportation vehicles all started with the cycling bugle...     The website CrazyGuyOnABike.com was of great help gathering information for this article and I'd like to give him a shout-out...as it's a remarkable body of work...   A WORD ABOUT  CrazyGuyOnABike.com Crazyguyonabike.com is probably the most comprehensive one-stop assembly of cycling history you'll ever need. It helped me write this article. You will see features, and a huge number of links to published antiquarian cycling history you probably would have never heard of...The founder/editor Neil Gunton of Oregon has done all the work. Here are just a few interesting pages of this incredible site...   American and Canadian 19th Century Cycling Periodicals Cycling Books in English: 1819 through 2024 https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?doc_id=24676  History Of The Bicycle: 1817 To Present  https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?page_id=138062&src=page_next  Old Wheelways: Traces of Bicycle History on the Land, by Robert L. McCullough https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?page_id=642871      Congratulations...you have now completed Cycling Bugles 101...You are now ready to go to flea markets, antiques shows, and malls, and spot a cycling bugle...Hope you enjoyed the journey...Lord bless...

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