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Popular Article: Bugle (instrument)
The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments; it is essentially a small natural horn with no valves. All pitch control is done by varying the player's embouchure (the adjustment of a player's mouth to the mouthpiece), since the bugle has no other mechanism for controlling pitch. Consequently, the bugle is limited to notes within the harmonic series and cannot play normal scales. Historically the bugle was signaling instrument, as well as an official characteristic of a hunt. Some of the best known melodies today are bugle calls, such as "Reveille" and "Taps."
