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Learning to play the Bugle

By Tapsbugler on November 15, 2016

Learning to play the bugle. How do I start? Where do I get a bugle? Every week I receive an email from someone who is…

BUGLES AND SCOUTING

By Tapsbugler on October 21, 2016

  BUGLES AND SCOUTING by BRUCE MCCREA http://familyandscoutinghistory.com/index.php/bugles-and-scouting Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of World Scouting, introduced the idea of Boy Scouting to the British public…

Ode To The Star-Spangled Banner

By Tapsbugler on September 13, 2016

“Ode To The Star-Spangled Banner”Recreating a long lost piece of musical history By Jari Villanueva“By Dawn’s Early Light” In September, 2014 the nation celebrated and…

A Morning Call by Edwin Forbes

By Tapsbugler on July 28, 2016

An excerpt from Thirty Years After: An Artist’s Memoir of the Civil War By Edwin Forbes Edwin Austin Forbes (1839 – March 6, 1895) was…

Echo Taps

By Tapsbugler on June 2, 2016

ECHO TAPS Echo Taps is a custom of sounding the call with two buglers standing at some distance apart to achieve an echo effect. Although…

THE EXPERIENCES OF A BANDMASTER

By Tapsbugler on February 14, 2016

THE EXPERIENCES OF A BANDMASTER By John Philip Sousa During eighteen years spent in playing music for the masses, twelve years in the service of…

The Pearl Harbor Bugler Sgt Theodore Allen

By Tapsbugler on December 5, 2015

The Pearl Harbor Bugler Army Bugler Sergeant Theodore Allen http://www.pearlharborbugle.com/ http://www.pearlharborbugle.com/#!press/c1s1p Sergeant Theodore Allen ​Stationed at Fort Ruger on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941…

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