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.
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Terra Cotta Model of Roman Bugle, 4th cent. (British Museum). Added to the British Museum in 1904, t...
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British; Bugle in C; Aerophone-Lip Vibrated
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Bugle scale: the five notes that comprise most bugle calls: C G C E G (harmonics 2 3 4 5 6).
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Eighth Route Army bugler in 1942, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Grotesque with bent trumpet, Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre, 1361-1425, fol. 272r.jpg
Grotesque with bent trumpet, Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre, 1361-1425, fol. 272r, circ...
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Иллюстрация Рихарда Кнотеля
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Detail einer Illustration zu Nüshet el-esra el-ahbar der seref-i Szigetvár, Chronik von Ahmed Feridu...
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Trompa; procedente de Numancia; s. II-I adC
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BookːMusica Getutscht - Sebastian Virdung 1511. Feldtrummet means "field trumpet". Busaun is an earl...
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A NAVAL MILITIA BUGLER SOUNDING A CALL "TO THE COLORS". In twenty million American homes fathers and...
Pilaster of Angels Sounding Trumpets from the Parapet of a Pulpit MET DP169508.jpg
Central Italian; Pilaster; Sculpture-Stone
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