Duty calls: Buglers sought to play taps at military funerals

Several Capital Region musicians have sounded a call for more volunteers to play taps during military funerals honoring ...
KRQE Blogs

Bugler: It gives me so much pride to blow Taps

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – There are few tunes more recognizable than the solemn song that brings a close to a military funeral. Taps is only 24 notes, but the brief melody is sure to stir emotion as its ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

University trumpeters offer Taps for veterans’ funerals

Ten trumpet students at a Louisiana university are offering to play Taps at veterans’ funerals, rather than leave the haunting farewell bugle call to a mechanical device. “A lot of people get a ...
The Crescent-News

Electronic bugle playing taps at military funerals

Defiance VFW Post 3360 has purchased a new electronic horn which allows honor guard members who are not musicians to sound taps at military funerals and graveside services. The instrument employs a ...
Military Times

University trumpeters among volunteers playing ‘Taps’ for veterans’ funerals

In this Jan. 25, 2019, photo, music education major and trumpet student Kody Jernigan of Longview, Texas, plays "Taps," at the funeral of retired Ouachita Parish District Fire Chief Tommy "Cotton" ...
Sun Sentinel

Under new Illinois law, playing taps at vets’ funerals can get teens out of school

About a dozen times over the last two years, Jack Bumann has gone to cemeteries in western Illinois to help honor military veterans he never met. A high school trumpet player in the small town of ...