BUGLE

Bugle

The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments, having no valves or other pitch-altering devices. All pitch control is done by varying the player's embouchure. Consequently, the bugle is limited to notes within the harmonic series. See bugle call for scores to standard bugle calls, all consisting of only five notes. These notes are known as the bugle scale.

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bugle

Noun

  1. A horn used by hunters.
  2. a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
  3. An often-cultivated plant in the family Lamiaceae.
  4. anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

Verb

  1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle

Adjective

  1. jet-black


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