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28-455: (Redirected from Bügel ) Not to be confused with Bugle . For other uses, see Bugle (disambiguation) . Bugel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Caspar Peter Bügel (1759–1817), German-Danish merchant and landowner Cornelia Bügel (born 1957), German rower Joe Bugel (1940–2020), American football coach [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

56-402: A musician known as a cornicen . This musician would play the it by holding it vertically and pointing it forward. The tubing would pass around the player's left shoulder. It would be played by holding the cornu with the player's left hand while the right hand pressed the mouthpiece against the lips, the breath and force of the player determining the sound of the instrument. The cornu

84-703: A sign of peace in the case of a surrender. In most military units, the bugle can be fitted with a small banner or tabard (occasionally gold fringed) with the arms of its reporting service branch or unit. In military tradition, the Last Post or Taps is the bugle call that signifies the end of the day's activities. It is also sounded at military funerals to indicate that the soldier has gone to his final rest and at commemorative services such as Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand and Remembrance Day in Canada The cornet

112-536: A signaling horn made from a small cow's horn. Going back further, it touches on Latin, buculus, meaning bullock. Old English also influences the modern word with bugle , meaning "wild ox." The name indicates an animal's (cow's) horn, which was the way horns were made in Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The modern bugle is made from metal tubing, and that technology has roots which date back to

140-556: A standard bugle, but rather an early trumpet that might be mistaken for a bugle today, as it lacked keys or valves, but had a more gradual taper and a smaller bell, producing a sound more easily audible at close range but with less carrying power over distance. The earliest bugles were shaped in a coil – typically a double coil, but also a single or triple coil – similar to the modern horn , and were used to communicate during hunts and as announcing-instruments for coaches (somewhat akin to today's automobile horn). Predecessors and relatives of

168-479: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Bugle 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 . The English word bugle comes from a combination of words. From French, it reaches back to cor buglèr and bugleret , indicating

196-483: Is sometimes erroneously considered a valved bugle, but the cornet was derived from more narrow-bored instruments, the French cornet de poste ( lit.   ' post horn ' ) and cor de chasse ( lit.   ' hunting horn ' ). Keyed bugles ( German : Klappenhorn ) were invented in the early 19th century. In England, a patent for one design was taken out by Joseph Halliday in 1811 and became known as

224-506: Is used mainly in the military, where the bugle call is used to indicate the daily routines of camp. Historically, the bugle was used in the cavalry to relay instructions from officers to soldiers during battle. They were used to assemble the leaders and to give marching orders to the camps. The bugle is also used in Boy Scout troops and in the Boys' Brigade . The Rifles , an infantry regiment in

252-621: The British Army , has retained the bugle for ceremonial and symbolic purposes, as did other rifle regiments before it. When originally formed in 1800, the Rifle Corps were the first dedicated light infantry unit in the British Army and were allowed a number of unique accouterments that were believed to be better suited for skirmishing, such as their green jackets. Other infantry used drums when marching and had whistles to signal when skirmishing, but

280-606: The Kent bugle . This bugle established itself in military band music in Britain and America, and its popularity is indicated by the existence of many published method books and arrangements. It was in wide use until about 1850 by which time it had been largely replaced by the cornet. Richard Willis, appointed the first bandmaster of the United States Military Academy 's West Point Band in 1817, wrote and performed many works for

308-602: The nafir and karnay , and during the Reconquista and Crusades , Europeans began to build them again, having seen these instruments in their wars. The first made were the añafil in Spain and buisine in France and elsewhere. Then Europeans took a step that hadn't been part of trumpet making since the Roman ( buccina and cornu ); they figured out how to bend tubes without ruining them and by

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336-407: The surname Bugel . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bugel&oldid=1106455004 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

364-405: The 1400s were experimenting with new instruments. Whole lines of brass instruments were created, including initially examples like the clarion and the natural trumpet. These were bent-tube variations that shrunk the long tubes into a manageable size and controlled the way the instruments sounded. One of the variations was to create "sickle shaped" horn or "hunting horns" in the 15th century. By

392-459: The 18th century, Germans had created a "half moon" shaped horn called the halbmondbläser , used by Jäger battalions. During the last quarter of the 18th century, or by 1800, the half-moon horn was bent further into a loop, possibly first by William Shaw (or his workshop) of London. The instrument was used militarily at that point as the "bugle horn." In 1758, the Halbmondbläser (half-moon)

420-565: The Greeks ( salpinx ) and Romans ( Roman tuba ), and further back to the Etruscans, Assyrians and Egyptians ( King Tut's Trumpet ). After the fall of Rome, when much of Europe was separated from the remaining Eastern Roman Empire, the straight, tubular sheet-metal trumpet disappeared and curved horns were Europe's trumpet. The sheet-metal tubular trumpet persisted in the Middle East and Central Asia as

448-481: The Rifle Corps was a much larger body of men that would be expected to spread out over a large area under a single commander. As a result, the bugle was taken from cavalry traditions because signals could pass much further without the need for repeats. The buglers in each battalion are headed by the bugle major, a senior non-commissioned officer holding the rank of sergeant or above. The bugle has also been used as

476-529: The Roman Empire, as well as to the Middle East during the Crusades, where Europeans re-discovered metal-tubed trumpets and brought them home. Historically, horns were curved trumpets, conical, often made from ox or other animal horns, from shells, from hollowed ivory such as the olifant . There existed another tradition of trumpets made of straight metal tubes of brass or silver that went back in Europe as far as

504-590: The arena, as on the Zliten mosaic . It was invented by the Etruscans for use in their funeral processions and military. Roman artistic representations of the cornu are typically realistic . While Etruscan art usually depict the cornu in use alongside the lituus . It was likely a status symbol in Etruscan society. The cornu was used in Roman religious rituals such as the worship of Dionysus or Cybele . It

532-470: The bugle included the post horn , the Pless horn (sometimes called the "Prince Pless horn"), the bugle horn, and the shofar , among others. The ancient Roman army used the buccina . Pitch control is done by varying the player's air and embouchure . Consequently, the bugle is limited to notes within the harmonic series . Scores for standard bugle calls use the five notes of the "bugle scale". The bugle

560-404: The charge and the retreat. The cornets are used only to regulate the motions of the colors; the trumpets serve when the soldiers are ordered out to any work without the colors; but in time of action, the trumpets and cornets sound together. The classicum , which is a particular sound of the buccina or horn, is appropriated to the commander-in-chief and is used in the presence of the general, or at

588-442: The curved parts of each tubes. It had a copper and tin bell at the end and it was sometimes made with a cross-brace . These ends were connected by a transverse rod that may have been made of wood and was held in place by iron nails . Holes would have been placed at the ends of these rods and would have been used to secure the nails to the bars. The bell was made from a flat sheet of folded metal. The cornu would be used by

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616-473: The execution of a soldier, as a mark of its being done by his authority. The ordinary guards and outposts are always mounted and relieved by the sound of trumpet, which also directs the motions of the soldiers on working parties and on field days. The cornets sound whenever the colors are to be struck or planted. These rules must be punctually observed in all exercises and reviews so that the soldiers may be ready to obey them in action without hesitation according to

644-501: The general's orders either to charge or halt, to pursue the enemy or to retire. For reason will convince us that what is necessary to be performed in the heat of action should constantly be practiced in the leisure of peace. The cornu was originally made from an animal horn and later made from bronze . It was carried around the wearer's neck using a cord. The instrument was curved into spiral shape. 0.5 millimeter thick metal sheets which were likely made from bronze were used to make

672-417: The keyed bugle. Since the mid 19th century, bugles have been made with piston valves. Cornu (horn) A cornu or cornum ( Latin : cornū, cornūs or cornum , " horn ", sometimes translated misleadingly as " cornet "; pl. : cornua ) was an ancient Roman brass instrument about 3 m (9.8 ft) long in the shape of a letter 'G'. The instrument was braced by a crossbar that stiffened

700-403: The spiral shape. The metal would have overlapped each other at the longest sides and were fixed through soldering . Sharp tools or stones would have been used to remove the excesses of the soldering alloys . The spiral was broken up into sectors connected by brass rings which were soldered onto the tubes. Iron curved cores would be used to work wooden pieces around 40 centimeters long to create

728-481: The structure and provided a means of supporting its weight on the player's shoulder. Some specimens survive in the archaeological record, two from the ruins of Pompeii . The cornu may be difficult to distinguish from the buccina . It was used by the Roman army for communicating orders to troops in battle. In Roman art , the cornu appears among the instruments that accompany games ( ludi ) or gladiator combat in

756-441: Was also used in sacrifices , funerals , circus plays , gladiatorial games , and bacchanals . The cornu was an ancient Roman musical instrument used in the ancient Roman military as a signaling instrument . It was used to give signals to the entire unit. The military writer Vegetius described the use of horns to give signals: The music of the legion consists of trumpets, cornets and buccinae . The trumpet sounds

784-482: Was used by light infantry from Hanover , and continued until after 1813. It was crescent-shaped (hence its name) and comfortably carried by a shoulder strap attached at the mouthpiece and bell. It first spread to England where as the "bugle horn" it was gradually accepted by the light dragoons (1764), the Grenadier Guards (1772), light artillery (1788) and light infantry. 18th-century cavalry did not normally use

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