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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-09-06 20:28
The "lack of buglers" is a specious argument. There need not be a military bugler at the services. My middle son (trumpet player) has played at a number of armed services funerals.
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Author: ned
Date: 2003-09-07 01:22
Does playing the bugle at a funeral constitute "live" music I wonder? I played the bugle [because I was a drummer at the time doing my obligatory army service] and I wouldn't call my feeble efforts music, by any stretch of the imagination.
In the Oz army - if you are a drummer you are also automatically a bugler [and a stretcher bearer too], at least that was the situation in the late 60s - didn't matter if you had no talent for the wretched thing. I cheated too [musically, that is] as I grabbed a trumpet out of the band room, rather than the bugle and held the three valves down to save the chops.
Was glad to get out the service and grab the carinet again!
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Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2003-09-07 03:06
Money. That is what it comes down to. To have a bugler you have to pay a bugler. If the service wants to pay they will be inundated with buglers. As an elementary school clarinet player in the early 60's I found out you could get out of class every morning and afternoon to play "To the colors" in the morning and "Taps" in the afternoon when the flag was raised and lowered. I borrowed my Boy Scout troop's bugle and in a week I had the gig. I ended up with the same job in the boy scout troop.
If a 12 year old can pick it up in a week then I am sure that lots of PFCs looking at additional pay and a cushy job would become available pdq! Play the horn a few months and you will be sounding as musical as a bugle can!
BTW, replacing live music with recordings, large orchestras with small combos comes down to the same principle.... Money.
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Author: Tom A
Date: 2003-09-07 05:57
I like the title of the thread. Very apt.
If live music dies in the old British Empire, you'll hear no more from us on this side of the world. Because we'll have to do the Last Post! ![[happy]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley12.gif)
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2003-09-07 17:42
" Because we'll have to do the Last Post"
Oh, Well Done, That Man.
Bob A
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-09-09 11:08
When people underestimate their playing and perform for free they are working towards getting this new movement ahead of having society feel music should be a freebie....it takes time and effort to play a piece of music no matter, and even more so in front of an audience. Performers have been ripped off from time immemorial. Even Mozart at the end of his life had trouble getting a steady job!
David Dow
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