taking a poll-Bugling

[gwd-scouter 11]

Camp Old Indian has a bugler during summer camp. Scouts learn very quickly what the calls mean.

[GKlose 24]

I was surprised to learn the other night that one kid in our troop is officially the bugler (then again, I knew he plays trumpet, and he did play Taps to close a recent Eagle CoH).

 

It got me to thinking. I enjoy a quiet outdoors, and wouldn't really want to hear a bugler at an event. Except for "To The Colors"...I miss that. It adds another dimension to a flag ceremony.

[SSScout 1615]

 

Go to your neighborhood Scout store and ask for the

"Bugle Calls/Voice of Lord Baden-Powell, Scouting Audio Classics"

CD #AV-054cd.

 

Forgot some things from my previous response: Wash out the bugle with a little warm water and detergent. You can buy a handy flexible cleaning tool that will help you ream out the gunk from the tubes. Makes it SMELL better and play better. More hygienic. Use RAGS not paper towel, because the PTs will shred and stay in the horn, complicating things. Dry completely. Rub a little vaseline on the tuning slide, keep it free sliding.

In really cold weather, warmup the mouthpiece and hold it in your hand before playing, and in REALLY cold weather, vaseline on the mouthpiece. Otherwise, the poor forgetful player may end up frozen to the horn!

 

Play, Don!

 

[SSScout 1615]

He was a famous trumpet man from out chicago way.

He had a boogie style that no one else could play.

He was the top man at his craft,

But then his number came up and he was gone with the draft.

Hes in the army now. Hes blowin reveille.

Hes the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B.

 

They made him blow a bugle for his Uncle Sam.

It really brought him down because he could not jam.

The captain seemed to understand,

Because the next day the cap went out and drafted the band.

And now the company jumps when he plays reveille.

Hes the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B.

 

A root, a toot, a toodlie-a-da-toot.

He blows it eight to the bar

He cant blow a note unless a bass and guitar

Is playin with him.

And the company jumps when he plays reveille.

Hes the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B.

 

He was a boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B.

And when he played his boogie woogie bugle

He was busy as a busy bee.

And when he played he made the company jump eight to the bar.

Hes the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B.

 

Andata toodliata-toodliata toot toot

He blows it eight to the bar.

He cant blow a note if a bass and guitar

Isnt with him.

And the company jumps when he plays reveille.

Hes the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B.

 

He puts the boys to sleep with boogie every night,

And wakes em up the same way in the early bright.

They clap their hands and stamp their feet,

cause they know how it goes when someone gives him a beat.

Woah, woah, he wakes em up when he plays reveille.

Oh, the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B.

 

A root, a toot, a toodli-a-da to toot toot toot

Hes blowin eight to the bar.

Yeah, he cant blow a note if a bass and guitar

Isnt with him.

And the company jumps when he plays reveille.

Hes the boogie woogie bugle boy of Company B!

 

 

[Stosh 3452]

But do the buglers know what and when to blow the bugle calls? or do they just do what someone tells them to do? Works both ways.

 

Stosh