Turton, P.

Dates Active in Dublin: 

c. 1829–1840

Business Type: 
Musical instrument maker: bugle horn
Musical instrument maker: ophicleide
Address(es): 

5 Wormwood Gate

Details: 

[Note: Weston states that the key covers and the elliptical crook of the Oxford ophicleide suggest that it was made later than the 1829 date on it's inscription and theorises that Turton could have built the instrument as late as the 1840s.]

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Produced

  • Six-keyed-bugle: Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments [formerly in the Colonel Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier collection]. Inventory number 3309 (Waterhouse). Mark: 'Royal / Patent Kent / Bugle / 299 / HALLIDAY INVENTOR [bell] and 'Made by P. Turton / 5, Wormwood Gate / Dublin' [bell garland] (Lasocki)
  • Ophicleide (no. 884) (Lasocki), 1829[?]: Oxford. Inventory number x602 (Waterhouse). Mark: 'Ophicleide or Quint-Tube Halary. Inventor. Made by P. Turton 5, Wormwood-Gate, Dublin, 1829' (Weston)
    • Source(s): 

    Weston, Stephen, 'Turton's Ophichleide', The Galpin Society Journal, 37 (March 1984), 116–17

    Waterhouse, William, The New Langwill Index: a Dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors (London: Tony Bingham, 1993), p. 406

    Lasocki, David, 'New Light on the Early History of the Keyed Bugle. Part II: More on England and Ireland; the United States', Historic Brass Society Journal, 22 (2010), 19–54 (p. 20)

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Turton, T.’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 16-05-2018