[latimes.com] The Washington Post finds an Air Force bugle player who came out of retirement to play taps at military funerals, rather than have cemeteries rely on taped versions.
Meet Bob Gruen: Bugle Player for the Clash and Photographer of Rock Royalty.
The children players, billed as "An East Suffolk Children's Orchestra", included handbell ringers from the County Modern School, Leiston; a percussion group, whose instruments included the slung mugs, from Woolverstone Hall School; recorder players from Framlingham College; and bugle players from the Royal Hospital School, Holbrook.
Christensen said the department doesn't keep track of how many live taps performances there are versus electronic bugle performances, but he said that 95percentt of services are conducted with live bugles or electronic bugles as opposed to the CDs that were frequently used before 2002, when the digital bugles were first tested by the military as it noticed the dwindling pool of bugle players.
We're not even players, but if there is a new Bingo Bugle, it makes you think that there's hope — hope on global warming, in the Middle East, with health insurance.
"Blow, bugle, blow," sings Allan Clayton, and it's not as if horn player Richard Watkins needs any encouragement.
Brass instruments had to await the development of valves, which increased greatly the musical proficiency of brass players and overcame previous typecasting of these instruments as bugles and hunting horns.
This club has no members, but players pay $25 for a three-hour weekday afternoon tournament, with lunch and brain food like Bugles, strudel, dried prunes and Oreos.
Bugles opened the ceremonies.
