Bass-baritone

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A large mellow-voiced bugle, sometimes incorrectly called 'baritone', which is pitched one octave below the soprano and tenor bugle and akin to the orchestral bass trombone or euphonium.

The Frank Holton Company of Elkhorn, Wisconsin was an early developer of the bass-baritone bugle, with an over-the-shoulder model offered in the late 1940s, but by the mid to later 1950s this bugle had evolved into a more standard-styled instrument which by the early 1960s had largely replaced the older baritone bugle. Rotary valves on the G-D bass-baritones were available in F#, F, or E.

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