Yankee Doodle Duet-1830s Graves & Co Eb 10-Keyed Bugle-1850s Moritz Style F Tuba by Daniel Ridder.

Extremely rare Graves and Co E flat 10 keyed bugle. Made in Winchester, New Hampshire. Made in late 1830s or early 1840s. Listen to sounds from the past. About 190 years ago more or less. “Yankee doodle”. The Berlin tuba F. Made by Julius Lemcke. This manufacturer was active in Berlin from 1847 to 1866. The first tubas were developed in Berlin around 1835 shortly after the invention of valve technology. In that year Wilhelmina Wieprecht and Carl Wilhelm Moritz received a patent for a brass tuba in F with five Berliner Pumpen valves. Tuba played impeccably by Daniel Ridder.