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A trumpet that gave up on notes to focus on volume and drama.
means A simple brass wind instrument without valves, used mainly to sound military calls or signals rather than melodies.
from Comes from Old French 'bugle,' meaning a wild ox or buffalo, from Latin 'buculus,' a little bullock — because the earliest 'bugle horns' were literally made from the horns of oxen, used as hunting and signal horns long before brass versions took over. The instrument kept the ox's name long after it stopped using the ox's horn.
- valve count
- zero, so only overtones, not real melodies
- military use
- signaled wake, meals, and retreat before radios existed
- taps origin
- 24 notes written for Civil War soldier funerals
- name root
- from latin buculus, meaning young bullock or ox