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	World Musical Instruments - Ethnic String Instruments, Sitars, Wind Instruments, Duduk, African Drums, Doumbek, ...
		Wind instruments produce sound when the column of air inside them is set into vibration by either a reed or the player's lips.
		The bugle is the basis for many other wind instruments and is a great way to learn control of mouth positions that are useful when playing other wind instruments.
		The mijwiz is one of the oldest wind instruments.
	www.worldmusicalinstruments.com /windmusicalinstruments.asp (1236 words)

	Pentagon OKs Push-Button Bugle, Digital Audio Device Authorized To 'Play' Taps At Military Funerals - CBS News
		A five-second delay gives the guards time to raise the instrument to their lips as if they are going to play it.
		Use of the $500 instrument "is intended to enhance the dignity of military funeral honors," the Pentagon said.
		Officials say the push-button bugle is a dignified alternative because the visual effect of a guard playing the instrument is better than taps played on a stereo or compact disc player.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/09/04/tech/printable571617.shtml (537 words)

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	Bugle, curio cabinet - bugle communications home page
		The Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps is pleased to announce the return of Brent Montgomery as the Percussion Caption Head for the 2007 season.
		The Ceremonial Bugle is a dignified method of playing Taps at a military funeral when a live bugler is not available for military funeral ceremonies.
		The Rico Bugle, the newspaper for Rico, Colorado, www.RicoBugle.com
	curio-cabinet.timesengine.com /?q=curio-cabinet-bugle (226 words)

	Bugle - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The keyed bugle was chiefly used in B flat, a crook for B flat being frequently added to the bugle in C; the soprano bugle in E flat was also much used in military bands.
		The history of the bugle as a military instrument is in England closely connected with the creation of the light infantry, in which it gradually superseded the drum 7 as a duty and signal instrument.
		The bugle with its double development by means of keys into Royal Kent bugle and ophicleide, and by means of valves into saxhorns and tubas, formed the nucleus of brass bands of all countries during the greater part of the 19th century.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bugle (2036 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Instrument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Musical instruments are devices designed to produce music, frequently by plucking or striking a string or bell or drum surface, or by forcing air to resonate (see wind instrument).
		Instruments of Torture is a term for the means whereby some act of torture is accomplished.
		Legal instruments are documents used to formally document various types of transactions or confirm certain statuses for specific purposes, such as confirming contractual relations, civil status, etc. Examples include wills, writs, court order, contracts, treaties, marriage licenses and driver's licenses.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Instrument.html (316 words)

	History of the Bugle, page 3`
		The bugle may not date as far back as its sister, the trumpet, but from its common origins the bugle was to rise as the primary communication instrument in the infantry.
		The horn was pitched in the key of D and had a crook to lower the pitch to C. The instrument was adopted for use by the English Light Dragoons in 1764, by the Grenadier Guards in 1772, and later by artillery and light infantry.
		A New and Compleat Preceptor for the Trumpet and Bugle Horn
	www.tapsbugler.com /HistoryoftheBugle/HistoryoftheBugle3.html (943 words)

	History of the Bugle, page 1
		The first thing is to find a definition of "bugle." And as we explore the history of the bugle, it is necessary also to incorporate a history of its sister instrument the trumpet.
		The trumpet became the instrument we are familiar with in bands and orchestras today while the bugle with valves evolved into the modern cornets and flugelhorns.
		The instruments found in ancient Egyptian art are short straight instruments of wood, bronze or silver and are depicted accompanying marching soldiers.
	www.tapsbugler.com /HistoryoftheBugle/HistoryoftheBugle1.html (1230 words)

	bugle
		Bugle calls employ five notes, transposd low C, G, middle C, E and G. On a G instrument, these tones are produced freely without a much strain and can be easily mastered by a novice.
		Bugles in G, Bb, C, and Eb are all fairly common in the history of the instrument.
		It was a Bb brass instrument with a valve that lowered the pitch a fourth to F. This valve was adopted by drum corps to increase the musical range of the bugles.
	home.hvc.rr.com /jmitchell1 (1562 words)

	Bugle (instrument) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The bugle is used mainly in the military and in drum and bugle corps, where the bugle has evolved away from its military origins, growing valves.
		In American drum and bugle corps, G is considered the traditional key for bugles to be pitched in.
		The cornet is sometimes erroneously considered to be the "valved version" of the bugle, although it was derived from the French cornet de poste (post horn).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bugle_(instrument) (252 words)

	Welcome to BachBrass.com
		Bach began producing instruments in 1924, which was only five years after the close of World War I. Military-style bugles from that period were a little more far ranging in design than the standard Bb ceremonial bugles used today.
		The bend in the mouthpipe is unexpectedly uneven, presumably to accommodate the length of the mouthpipe.
		All indications are that the bugle was made in the late 1940s in the Bronx, albeit possibly using a pre-1933 tuning slide.
	www.bachbrass.com /content/bachology/article7.php (4396 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bugle (instrument)
		The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments; it is essentially a small natural horn with no valves.
		The bugle is used mainly in the military and in drum and bugle corps, where the bugle has evolved away from its military origins, growing valves.
		The cornet is sometimes erroneously considered to be the "valved version" of the bugle, although it was derived from the French cornet de poste (post horn).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bugle_(instrument) (273 words)

	Manual For Buglers, US Navy
		The use of the bugle or a similar instrument as a military signaling device dates back many centuries, probably originating when someone discovered that a cow’s or sheep’s horn would make a noise when air was blown through it.
		Bugles which have a lacquered finish are cleaned on the outside by wiping them with a damp cloth.
		Bugles with a plain brass finish, or those on which the lacquer is badly worn, should be polished with bright work polish.
	www.history.navy.mil /library/online/bugle.htm (12170 words)

	Al's Tenor Horn Page - Cornet History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		These instruments originally came in the form of a straight trumpet, the oldest surviving examples of which were found in the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamun in 1922, and which date from circa 1352 BCE.
		The bugle was primarily a military instrument because of its dexterity, its small, easy-to-carry size, and the way the sound carried through the riot and mayhem of battle.
		Though the trumpet is an instrument in its own right with its own history, it is impossible, when writing a piece on the cornet, not to mention the trumpet, because of the borrowing of ideas during the development of keyed and valved brasswinds.
	home.earthlink.net /~tenorhorn/cornethistory.html (3674 words)

	How tuba is made - Background, History, Design, Raw materials, The manufacturing process of tuba
		It was a type of keyed-bugle instrument that could reportedly produce a pitch as low as F. However, these instruments were difficult to play and were never truly embraced by the music community.
		It is a massive instrument with a large bell of anywhere from 14-30 in (35.56-76.2 cm) in diameter.
		In some cases, certain surfaces on the instrument such as the valves or the sliding pipes are coated with chromium or a nickel alloy.
	www.madehow.com /Volume-5/Tuba.html (1925 words)

	Bugle Calls
		Soldiers were quick to learn the calls of the bugle, and on a routine day at least four, and as many as ten, were made.
		The bugle was first used as a signal instrument in the American Army during the Revolutionary War.
		The enlisted soldiers life was regulated by bugle calls: the daily routine included breakfast, dinner, and supper calls; fatigue call, drill call, stable and water calls, sick call, and taps.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ground/bugle.htm (2024 words)

	Essentials of Music - Glossary
		Wind instrument popular in Eastern and Western Europe that has several tubes, one of which plays the melody while the others sound the drones, or sustained notes; a windbag is filled by either a mouth pipe or a set of bellows (uilleann pipes).
		Plucked-string instrument with round body in the form of a single-headed drum and a long, fretted neck; brought to the Americas from Africa by early slaves.
		The principal orchestral instruments of the brass family, from highest to lowest, are: trumpet, French horn, trombone and tuba.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /glossary/b.html (738 words)

	bugle - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bugle, cup-mouthpiece wind instrument made of coiled brass or copper tubing with a wide conical bore and flaring bell.
		Flügelhorn, valved brass instrument of the bugle type.
		Bugle : instruments developed from the bugle: tuba
	encarta.msn.com /bugle.html (131 words)

	Bugle - Cunnan
		Modern bugles are keyed and also called Kent Bugles.
		A bugle-horn used as a heraldic charge is always depicted as a medieval-style warhorn hanging from a short ribbon.
		Bugle or bugleweed is a member of the mint family.
	cunnan.sca.org.au /index.php?title=Bugle&redirect=no (159 words)

	How to select a bugle
		The bugle comprises a long piece of metal, which is conical and bent in usually two elliptical lengths.
		Another bugle in B flat which is an American made one is the Getzen American Heritage, which is made of the finest brass and has a medium large bore.
		These bugles, in the key of G, are pitched lower than most trumpets and are thus easier to sound all the notes.
	www.musical-instrument-review.com /articles/26-bugle.html (512 words)

	Bugle Calls
		The bugle was essential to all military communication until its displacement by electronics.
		Soldiers were quick to learn the calls of the bugle, and on a routine day at least four, and as many as ten, were made.
		The bugle was first used as a signal instrument in the American Army during the Revolutionary War.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/land/bugle.htm (2016 words)

	BUGLE - Online Information article about BUGLE
		compass of the instrument consists of eight, of which the first or fundamental, however, being of poor quality, is never used.
		original instrument specified irf the patent, Halliday added a sixth key, which became the first and was in the normal position open; this key when closed gave B flat, with the same series of harmonics as the open tube.
		Etruscan cornu, the length of which is 1.40 m.; he gives its scale,' pitched one tone below that of the bugle in E flat, as that of D flat, of which the harmonics 2 3 4 5 6 from the second to the sixth are available.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BRI_BUN/BUGLE.html (2737 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Push-button bugle at military funerals
		A six-month trial involving 50 bugles and the consultation of honour guards and family members found that the idea had an approval rating of more than 90%, the Pentagon said in a statement.
		The $500 instrument is, the department says, intended to "enhance the dignity of military funeral honours", but a real bugler will still be used if one is available.
		Officials also say that the electronic bugle is a viable alternative to playing "taps" on a stereo because the visual effect of someone miming its playing is more effective.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3082306.stm (336 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for bugle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		bugle1 †buffalo, bull; kind of horn (short for bugle horn horn of a wild ox used as a drinking vessel and as a musical instrument).
		Its principal use is for military and naval bugle calls, such as taps and reveille, and, in earlier times, for hunting calls.
		Bugles Announces `Crunch to the Finish' Sweepstakes; Lucky Race Fan and Fan's School of Choice Will Be Winners.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=bugle (809 words)

	Push-Button Bugle to Play Taps at Military Funerals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A five-second delay gives the guards time to raise the instrument to their lips as if they are going to play it.
		Use of the $500 instrument "is intended to enhance the dignity of military funeral honors," the Pentagon said.
		Officials say the push-button bugle is a dignified alternative because the visual effect of a guard playing the instrument is better than taps played on a stereo or compact disc player.
	www.americansovereign.com /news/2003/september/bugle.htm (424 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Air Force Sergeant Traces Bugle's History
		Bugles were first used for signaling in America by the British army during the Revolutionary War.
		Villanueva is holding a keyed bugle, which was an early attempt to have chromatic notes played on a bugle, which is a valveless instrument.
		That's everything from large clarion bugles imported from France, to cavalry trumpets to a keyed bugle, which Villanueva said is a cross between a saxophone and a bugle.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Nov2000/n11082000_200011084.html (898 words)

	Instrument Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Often associated with the military, bugles have served both as solo or accompanying instruments and as signaling devices for watchmen, cavalry soldiers, and hunters among others.
		The keyed bugle was first patented in 1810 by an Irish bandmaster, Joseph Halliday, who perhaps was inspired by the keyed trumpets of Austrian musician Anton Weidinger.
		Bugles soon became popular in Europe where they were made from brass or nickel silver.
	www.si.umich.edu /CHICO/instrument/pages/bugle_gnrl.html (225 words)

	Ceramic Musical Instruments
		A brass-wind instrument with a cupped mouthpiece like the trumpet and usually without keys or valves, usually smaller, and having a shorter and more conical shaped tube.
		After hearing of a rare brass instrument called the double belled euphonium I was inspired to join my 7th grade band class.
		My bugles are not made in a particular key, although rumor has it that an orchestra in Seattle once tuned it's self to one of my upright octo- oscillators for a mid summer night fugue performance.
	members.aceweb.com /clay/bio.html (530 words)

	History of Louisiana Drum&Bugle Corps
		The percussive instrument- ation includes tonal opportunities by use of marching tympani, and varied mallet instruments, as well as the more traditional marching cussion accessories allowed, provide for numerous special effects to help bring additional color to their phase of the overal musical performance.
		MUSICAL ANALYSIS: The bugle caption also has a category whereby the judge evaluates the training displayed by the musicians, the content of the written score, and the tone quality and intonation control of the instrument by the performers.
		As with the bugle judge, the judge of this caption utilizes a high degree of concen- tration in watching and listening to the performance, so that he can accurately evaluate the precision of the section.
	www.louisianadrumcorps.org /history.html (2718 words)

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