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On Monday, May 31, 2021 at 6:43:39 PM UTC-4, micky wrote:
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news In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 31 May 2021 12:05:32 -0400, Ed Pawlowski
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On 5/31/2021 11:19 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 31 May 2021 11:03:48 -0400, micky
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OT, sometimes when Taps is played, an intentional error is made at one
point, but not all the time.

Whaqt do you know about this?

What is the word for this flaw in its presentation?


Sometimes it's played all-funny-like and called
The Last Post.
John T.

https://nationalpost.com/news/taps-v...-deep-meanings

Interesting article, but after a while and after I found a recording of
The Last Post, I realized it answered a different question from the one
I asked. The Last Post is an entirely different melody from Taps. Not
surprising since it's played in Canada.

I was asking about Taps itself, but played with a flaw. In one of the
lines where it goes daaa-da-daaa, instead there is daaa-da-dedah, one
note played off pitch for a split second.

...well, while google is clever, sometimes it makes all the difference
what search terms are used. When I tried instead of flaw or error,
"imperfect rendition", I got exactly one/two hits, that explained it.

It was only played that way once, at JFK's funeral in 1963. And it was
a mistake. But I and some others think it captured the feeling of those
who were there or watching better than a perfect rendition.

https://www.tapsbugler.com/the-letter/

The first video doens't play it, but does descibe it, at the 6th note.

The second video included it. So does the third.

There are no valves on a bugle, so the buglar's voice,
I guess it is, determines the pitch.

There is no voice involved, the bugler blows into the bugle.
I know that he blows but he does more than that. How does he change
the pitch? Assume I put "voice" in quotes.

The tension in his lips. Even with a valved trumpet or other brass
instrument, the player changes the pitch with his lips. The valves
help, but they don't do the whole job.

Google "how to play a trumpet".

One of my uncles played trumpet in his high school band. When he died, his
trumpet came to stay at our house for a time, where each of us kids picked
it up and tried to 'play it'. We could each make noise with it, but we
quickly had a beet red face and had to put it down to catch our breath.

The trumpet disappeared pretty quickly, which I now assume was just Mom's
way of saying she was tired of the noise. That was ~40 years before Google
and we didn't have anyone to show us how to play it.