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Thanks Keith!
Jari is abosolutley correct! This second account of ‘Taps” is completely false. While it may make for a good emotional read, it is utter nonsense.
I played in a Civil War reneactment band that (at the time) I was principal musician. Part of the playing was also presenting histories of the music, instruments, battles, soldiers life, and I was very fond of talking about ‘Taps’. Oliver Willcox Norton and Gen. Butterfield wrote of their experiences in the Civil War. They created ‘Taps’, and it has grown to be an honored tradtion-Elliscombe has not even been shown to EVER really existed. Carry on….
My First Patriot Guard Mission, I heard the digital bugle. It sucked. I had not played my trumpet since the 10th grade in 1974. I was encouraged to pick it up and play again. I bought a bugle at the Endview Plantation in Newport News VA. Since I have been playing TAPS for grave dedications and memorials. I’ll play till my lungs will no longer allow it. (20+ years Fire Department related exposure). I was at the 150th at the Berkeley Plantation. A great inspiration.
It may be an excellent example of fiction, but I would suggest it does not claim to have ‘composed’ “Taps”…only that the captain discovered the ‘notes’ on a piece of paper in the boy’s pocket. Oh well, I still can’t hear it without tearing up every time!
My son is in marching and concert band as well as Orchestra. He plays most brass instruments to include bugle. he wants to know the significance of the cord or braid found on many of the bugles. He is also in Boy Scouts and AFROTC and wants an appropriate cord to put on his bugle. Thank you
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https://archive.org/details/CivilWarBugleCalls
Jari–hopefully we did Taps justice in Aftermath of Battle. I certainly tried!! I have had a difficult time finding a recording of Extinguish Lights. Is there other than the young lady who plays bugle on the YouTube offering, if that is even it? Thanks, Meg
For a historically accurate and fitting arrangement for performance see, “Extinguish Lights” (or Taps) on page 38 of The Bugler’s Call Book under the heading: Cavalry Calls, contained in the back of Elias Howe’s United States Regulation Drum and Fife Instructor published in 1861.
Most assuredly “Taps” was not a Confederate music composition.
No one said it did….