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Relative of a trumpet
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bugle
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The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments , having no valves or other pitch-altering devices. All pitch control is done by varying the player's embouchure . Consequently, the bugle is limited to notes within the harmonic series . See bugle call ...
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n. a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover [syn: bugleweed ] a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration ...
Usage examples of bugle.
He listened to it, hearing also the footsteps coming up behind him, but thinking of how good a thing it had been to sleep late every morning as a member of this Bugle Corps and wake up to the sounds of the line companies already outside at drill.
They walked down the flight of steps and out the walk in front of A Company, where the Bugle Corps was quartered, crossed the street and walked along Headquarters building to the sallyport.
Red would not quit a soft deal like the Bugle Corps because his pride was hurt.
Lee Prewitt had learned to play a guitar long before he ever learned to bugle or to box.
He even realized, all at once, holding the bugle, the reason why he had ever got into The Profession at all, a problem that had stumped him up till then.
It made a change in him right away and he dropped out of the boxing squad to get himself apprenticed to the Bugle Corps.
He planned to stay there in that Bugle Corps for his full thirty years.
When he put in to get back into the Bugle Corps, he found that while he was away they had suddenly gone overstrength.
What disillusioned him, what he did not understand, was that this dose of the clap should have cost him his bugle when he still could play it just as well as ever, and also that a society girl had given it to him.
The bitterness about the bugle, added to all the other bitternesses, gave him something.
He transferred to this other regiment because it had the best Bugle Corps in the Lower Post.
Thats why I couldnt see why you hated us guys in the Bugle Corps so much.
He felt a hunger for the acrid smell of metal polish that hung about his bugle as he played.
But you havent got a bugle, himself said, not here nor any other place.
Chapter 14 It had all of it, Prew questioned, begun with the quitting of the Bugle Corps.