I was reading Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit the other day, and at one point came across a mention of an instrument I'd never heard of, the keyed bugle: "He was musical besides, and had a little key-bugle in his pocket, on which, whenever the conversation flagged, he played the first part of a great many tunes, and regularly broke down in the second."

So I looked up the instrument on google, and found out something about it, and turned up this page with a clip of a collector using it to play The British Grenadier. (Scroll down the page a bit.)

I wonder if anyone out there is playing one? It's a great sound. I can just imagine it with a Morris side. Hertfordshire Hollies have a cornet with their band, but I think the keyed bugle would be even better.