Show bugle old instrument the origin of the bugle in common with that of the hunting horn born Is of the remotest antiquity writes william C Q white united states army band leader sixteenth infantry in the united states recruiting news newa tubas horns cornets cognets and bugles have as common archetype the horn of the ram bull or other animal whose form orm was waa copied and modified in bronze wood brass and sliver silver of all these instruments the bugle has in n the highest degree retained the acoustic properties and the characteristic scale of tha th a prototype and Is stell put to the original use for giving military |