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Show I CARE IN FASHIONING BUGLE Making of Instrument Used in the Army Is a Delicate, Complicated Process. From start to finish, the making of an army bugle is a process of much ingenuity in-genuity and interest. A bugle may not at first sight present a striking resemblance re-semblance to its cousin, the coach-horn coach-horn but the one is practically a curled-up version of the other, for, before be-fore the bugle is bent into shape, it consists of a narrow tube, 51 inches long. in the first stage of manufacture the bugle is cut out of sheet copper and rolled into two thin cyiinaers. technically known as the "bell" and the "branch." The narrow tube, which is the "bell," is gradually shaped out on molds until the opening is the regular regu-lar 4-inch diameter. It is then "spun" on a wonderful machine, and an expert workman takes the rough edges off the copper. Both sections are afterwards filled with molten lead, preparatory to the bending stage, and it is this solid stuffing which prevents the tube break ing 'n the process, and allows it to keep its shape. The expert workman, with the aid of a formidable lever and hammer, bends the bugle into the fa miliar shape, the lead being subse quently melted out at a charcoal fur nace. after vhich the instrument is sou' off to the polishers. 0::e of the most intricate parts ot the bugle is the mouthpiece, which is made of nickel silver and turned out on a special lathe. With the mouth ! piece fixed, the instrument is ready I for the testing-room. |