Bugle Calls : Every bugle call
NEW CHANNEL : bugle calls: A bugle call is a short tune, originating as a military signal announcing scheduled and certain nonscheduled events on a military installation, battlefield, or ship. Historically, bugles, drums, and other loud musical instruments were used for clear communication in the noise and confusion of a battlefield. Naval bugle calls were also used to command the crew of many warships (signaling between ships being by way of signal defining feature of a bugle call is that it consists only of notes from a single overtone series. This is in fact a requirement if it is to be playable on a bugle or equivalently on a trumpet without moving the valves. (If a bandsman plays calls on a trumpet, for example, one particular key may be favored or even prescribed, such as: all calls to be played with the first valve calls typically indicated the change in daily routines of camp. Every duty around camp had its own bugle call, and since cavalry had ho
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