Keyed and Early Valve Brass Instruments

These are earlier styles of instruments from before about 1870.

Additional early style instruments are featured on my pages featuring replica or reproduction instruments.

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Keyed Bugles

Early and Orchestral Trumpets

Double Piston Valves in the US

1840's English Cornets

1840s Saxhorn, Paris and New Orleans

Besson Rotary Valve Cornet

Prussian and Swedish Kornetts

German and Austrian Post Horns

Dodworth Instruments, 1856

Distin Tenor Flugelhorn, 1856

Ophicleides

Trombones with Bells over the Shoulder