A bugle call is a short tune, originating as a military signal announcing scheduled and certain non-scheduled 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.
A French Marine plays the bugle during the Gulf War, in March 1991.
Memorial Stained Glass window, Class of 1934, Royal Military College of Canada showing Officer Cadet playing the Bugle call for Last Post or The Rouse
Norman Lindsay, The trumpet calls, World War I Australian recruitment poster
The bugle is a simple signaling brass instrument with a wide conical bore. It normally has no valves or other pitch-altering devices, and is thus limited to its natural harmonic notes, and pitch is controlled entirely by varying the air and embouchure.
Bugle in C
Iberian Celtic trumpet or bugle made from clay, 2nd-1st century B.C., Iberian Peninsula.
13th century. Angels sounding horns or trumpets. The horns were manufactured in the shape of oxen horns.
Awareness of trumpet experiments reached a 1405 illustrator in France, who painted a grotesque playing a trumpet bent into a U.
