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This is because the bugle, for which it is written, can play only the notes in the harmonic series of the instrument's fundamental tone; a B-flat bugle thus plays the notes B-flat, D, and F. "Taps" uses the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth partials. Taps in C "Taps" is a bugle call—a signal, not a song. As such, there is no associated lyric.
Keith Collar Clark (November 21, 1927 – January 11, 2002) [2] was a bugler in the United States Army who played the call "Taps" at the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. He misplayed the sixth note, and to many this mistake was a poignant symbol of the American nation in mourning. [3]
For the past 20 years, the program has begun with Echo Taps, a tradition in which brass players line up between Mount Olivet Cemetery and Memorial Park to play taps — a military bugle call ...
In the United States Army, the tattoo signals that all light in squad rooms be extinguished and that all loud talking and other disturbances be discontinued within 15 minutes, at which time "Taps" should follow. [2] At 28 bars long "Tattoo" is recognized as the longest bugle call in the repertoire of the United States Army
Spinal Tap (band), a parody band Tap dance, a type of dance using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor; Tapping, a guitar playing technique "Taps" (bugle call), a U.S. armed forces bugle call
The Interior Department said it had approved an application by the U.S. Forest Service to withdraw 264,442 acres of federal lands in the Ruby Mountains from mineral and geothermal leasing. The ...
Alaska holds the all-time U.S. record. The mercury plummeted to 80 degrees below zero on Jan. 23, 1971, in Prospect Creek, north of Fairbanks.
The New Basement Tapes is a British-American musical supergroup made up of members Jim James, Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, Taylor Goldsmith, and Rhiannon Giddens. [1] The group is best known for their 2014 album Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes, which consists of tracks based on newly uncovered lyrics handwritten by Bob Dylan in 1967 during the recording of his 1975 album with The ...