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Anzac Day has been all over the news tonight, as it should be and The Last Post has been heard many times. But why don't they stick with tradition and play The Last Post on a bugle? All the renditions I have heard tonight are played on a trumpet and it just does not sound the same.
The sound of a trumpet is just too pure, whereas the sound of the bugle is very raw and sounds completely different.
So why do they play the last post on a trumpet? Doesn't anyone know how to play a bugle these days? Sacrilege!
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It always makes me stop and listen. Can't help it being an Army brat, I think I was brainwashed by all that khaki at an impressionable age.
I do really like the War Memorial Museum's Online Cenotaph, that is such a great initiative. And the research behind the names is fantastic. My Dad is up there now, so I laid a poppy for him, along with the ones for the greats. Nice to be able to do that. I should scan one of the photos of him in uniform, for the grandchildren and great grands to discover sometime in the future.
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as an ex bugle player while I was at sea cadets more than a few years ago, I think I can safely rule out it being any easier or harder to play - the only real difference is the valves on a trumpet, which allow a greater number of notes that it can play by extending the length of the tube.
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I would hazard a guess that the ones using Bugles are true bugle players, the others using trumpets are just from the local army band or similar and aren't really comfortable playing a bugle... or there is a shortage of bugles on ANZAC day
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At an uncles funeral many years ago the RSA was there, and they played The Last Post - on a tape recorder !
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