I've never heard this at a funeral. People around here usually play bagpipes. Nothing beats Amazing Grace on the bagpipes. If it's good enough for Spock, it's good enough for anyone!
Thank you so much for the explanation and introduction how and where taps originated. I really appreciate it! My husband is retired Army and although we haven't discussed death in detail, should I outlive him I wan't him to have a military funeral. As a matter of fact I will instruct our children should he outlive me. I've been an active duty Army wife for 20 years and the military was my family during that time. I still miss them!
Shit! I accidently thumbs uped the the really bad comment obove. Please punish me by thumbsing down my comment. I meant to vote his down but my mouse slipped.
I honor this to the 3 Bismarcks my empire had that were sunk in an act of war against my empire. My navy's capabilities are now weakened and now vulnerable. My navy will never recover from that blow. Thank you for your services to my empire.
@tapsbugler then maybe you can help me out, on my channel i did a tribute video for my grandfather who recently passed away he served in WW2 in the navy, i have taps playing in the background, and now i have a copyright infrindgement on the video, from Sony music... needles to say and to keep the language clean iam dont right PISSED about this, and i was unaware of the origins of this piece, but obviously it is american and was created in 1862, so not sure how sony can do what they are doing
"Taps" is uniquely American as 'The Last Post" is uniquely British adopted by many other countries, Neither is better than the other, as whole societies have grown up & associated with their own particular military call. It's that association & the embodiment of the meaning within their hearts that binds people to their call. Slatibaadfast is totally wrong in his interpretation & it's beyond me why he said what he did. All I can say is, Australia does not lack it's share of rednecks & fools.
@tapsbugle It's true that "Taps" was written by Butterfield in 1862 and I have heard it many times but I have been listening to it over & over lately, very carefully along with "The Last Post" and I'm sure that you as a bugler and musician can hear as I do, the similarities between the two. They ARE different but very similar. I feel that Butterfield was influenced by the sound in his head at the time of the British call "Last Post", when he wrote "Taps". This takes nothing away from either tune
@slatibaadfast The songs sound nothing a like my asshole, messed up teeth britsh friend.... How dare you talk about "taps" like that. My Best friend died in the military, in my unit...they played this at his funeral.
Thanks for this piece. Very informative and well done. And to the 5 people who dislike this, get OUT of OUR country. The men who's funerals this is played at died for your freedom.
"Toe" in the Dutch means "shut" or end, and is pronounced "too", hence the word "Tattoo" in the military sense. Taps is similar to "The Last Post" (played at Remembrance Day parades) which is much longer. Both my parents' funerals ended with Taps. He was a Scout; she a Guide.
No matter the origins of the call, it is an honor for a veterans. One day taps will be sounded for the final time and the faded coat of blue will be exchanged for a robe of white. May God bless all of our veterans both living and dead.
From generations of Army, I am well acquainted w/ bugle calls, especially Taps.
Your rendition is the bar for all buglers in my humble opinion. Your work on the exhibit years back was much appreciated, btw. This video you made is concise and authoritative. Well done. Bravo. At my funeral, should I be so lucky to have a bugler half as talented as you, I'll be lucky. Thank you for sharing this vid.
What an excellent lesson! I've never served, nor has anyone in my immediate family, but I just can't help but feel a sense of heartbreak but also of pride and patriotism whenever I hear it. I'm so grateful to the patriots of this country who have either made the ultimate sacrifice or who are currently putting their lives in harms way to keep this country safe. How blessed I am to live in the United States!
Though I may have not served, I understand the pain a man experiences when a friend is lost to the wages of war. But it is in remembrance, that this song is played. That he did not die for nothing, but for us and his country. In all things, he did not die in vain, but for duty, honor, and for his friends and his family. Ignore those who hate, because they do not experience war, and therefore only speculate on their own ideas formed by liberalisticly influenced newspapers. Fight on men, fight on.
Very interesting document... Well made and well presented... I greatly appreciate the generosity of the explanations, that were done in a very professionnal manner... My thanks.
same here about the tears... Thank you Sir. This is incredibly interesting and very informative. I have no idea how you can play Taps without crying or choking up. I am in the PGR and I hear it too often. It never gets easier.
Thank you for this video. I myself have played taps many times for private funerals while in high school. Whether you knew the family or not, it was very saddening. Especially the way taps makes a lot of people feel at funerals. I always had a trumpet though. I would like to learn it on the bugle. Again, thank you for the video.
Thank you for this video. My brother-in-law was buried a week ago today, he was buried with full Military Honors. When Taps was played, we all cried. May he Rest In Peace, still hard to believe he's gone. Heaven watch over him.
hmm.. I find it hard to believe it is entirely separate from 'signaal taptoe' and by extension, the last post. Probably the person adapting Scott tattoo was also aware of the earlier taptoe signals and influenced by them.
Once I hear Taps I lose it. Everything is going O.K. considering, I'm holding up as best I can, being strong in front of the young ones, being supportive for my family, and then Taps plays in the distance and I cry like a baby. No other song can change a man like Taps does.
@nhlninetyfour You are a true American in my book. My PopPop was a veteran in the Korean war. He would have passed almost three years ago February 5th.
@nhlninetyfour I heard taps for the first time as I was handed my older brothers flag. taps to this day makes me fall. even as a growing man I fall apart at this.
He couldn't be more right the day me and my family buried my grandmother they played taps and when they played it every one was crying. Now when I hear this song i do start to get a little teary eyed but it's not cuz im sad she is gone it is because im so proud to say my grandmother served in the United States Navy in WW2
Having lost so many friends now this bugle song is bittersweet. Each time I hear it my eyes begin to burn and tear up. Even when I know the song is about to be played I am still caught off guard by emotion. Rest in Peace brothers and know you are greatly missed by all of us.
I bought a sort of bugle-like horn yesterday, but I doubt its a good one, and I am now very impressed with the amount of sound a bugler can produce. Mine only seems to sigh or to groan. :P
When you hear TAPS sounded,please stand in rememberance of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. May G-D grant them eternal rest.
I will forever remember when Taps was played at my Fathers Funeral it is such a touching feeling that can't help but bring tears to your eyes then and anytime you hear it after that. My Father served his country and I could not be prouder then any American as I hear this played at a soldiers funeral. May we all respect that these men fought so bravely for our country. God Bless Our USA Flag That Flies Proudly and is a sign of our Freedom in the USA as the Flag is given to a Loved Ones Family...
I've taked to many musicians about Taps, many of them never realized that the 4 different notes used make up a major chord. Most guess that its minor, likely because of the association with military funerals. For me, that's illustrative of just how powerful the melody is. Certainly a magical piece. Thanx for posting the vid, well done sir!
Thank you sir, for this incredibly informative video, and for helping us remember how sacred this song is and the lives that are given so selflessly for our freedom.
I used to play Trumpet but now I'm out of practice so I'd prefer an instrument that you play by instinct and not with valves so I can just think of a song and play it. Is the bugle like that? Cus I can play most any tune on a trumpet mouthpiece but obviously that sounds a bit stupid, and doesn't work once it's attached to the trumpet, then I can only control jumps between C and G and E with my mouth.
@suziqleigh1 When you play any brass instrument that uses a mouthpiece, you can play many different notes without pressing any keys. This is done by changing the position and muscles of your mouth, or your 'embouchure'. As you watch this video, look closely at the mans mouth around the mouthpiece. You can see it moving. Its why instruments like trumpets only need three buttons.
@suziqleigh1 When you play any brass instrument that uses a mouthpiece, you can play many different notes without pressing any keys. This is done by changing the position and muscles of your mouth, or your 'embouchure'. As you watch this video, look closely at the mans mouth around the mouthpiece. You can see it moving. Its why instruments like trumpets only need three buttons.
Beautiful, thanks for sharing your skill. Here's a great organization that helps ensure that all vets are able to have taps played at their funerals: search: Bugles Across America
Thank you for this fantastic video. I am looking for ways to teach my kids about Memorial Day today, and this video will be one that they watch. Thank you!
This is very informative! I hve posted a link to it onto my FB page, I think that this will help ALOT of people understand the meaning of "Taps". Thank you!
@tapsbugler Beautiful just beautiful i was with uk forces and this and the last post always chokes me up just one of two songs able to do that to me it also brings back memories.
@tapsbugler As a brass musician, I have played taps. How do you hold your air that long. I have to breathe between each phrase, but I never hear you. why?
i will never forget, about 5 years ago when my grandpaw died i couldnt go to his funiral. he was in the USMC and served in the veitnam war. i was at office max one day and my dad called me and put his phone on speaker and i heard taps playing. i got cold chills and a tear ran down my face.... THANK YOU TO ALL who served/serves in the US military
One of my fellow Military members died not too long ago, I couldn't make it to his funeral due to being on duty, but my friends told me they Bugled Taps and it was the saddest thing they have heard, becuase of what Taps means.
So moving!... But I wonder why I have never heard anyone ever sing the words to it. I was taught the words to Taps as a young Girl....and I have never forgotten them. Every time I hear Taps the words go through my mind. It would be lovely to hear the words sung again.
So moving....But I'm wondering why no one ever sings the word to it....I was taught the words to Taps as a little girl and have never forgotten them. It would be lovely to hear them sung again.
"The last post" only slower. Taps was the name used when the British battalion duty officer of the day went around the billets at night and tapped his stick across the beer tap, this signified "stop tap" an expression still in use in England today.When a pub is closing the barman will call out loudly "Stop tap!" The last post was in use well before the war of American independance and with Napoleon. debate and no argument or offence please.
Gary the Royal Military School of Music will know, I will see what I can dig up. Remembrance day today, certainly a time to remember the Americans as well as our own countrymen.
Hello, I am a German soldier. I often listened to BFBS, the British Forces Broadcasting Service in Germany, and every day in the evening BFBS was colsing down with the evening hymn, the last post and the national anthem. It was very moving. Greetings from Berlin, Germany
Peer good evening. Coincidence, I was also stationed in Berlin. I was out at Spandau. British, but also proud to have done a attachment tour of duty with the Gebirgs Div in mittenwald; I made life long friends there. I was quite astounded at the similarity of the British and German armies, I felt quite 'at home' with them, rank structures and tactical procedures very similar.
Evening Hymn is perhaps used like your wonderful piece of music 'Ich hatte ein Kameraden. That of couse is very moving.
The same in Germany. In Germany it is called "Zapfenstreich", and it means that the "Zapfen" (tap) is now closed and the soldiers must not drink moore beer, because the so called "Profoß" has done a "streich",a beat with his stick on the beer tap. The very military ceremony in Germany is the "Großer Zapfenstreich", a parade with honor guards, a band, circled by soldiers with torches. This ceremony is given for our President, our Chancellor when they leave there office for the last time.
I have been on several "duties" throughout my military career but funeral duty is the toughest. EVERY time the bugler hits the first note the hair on the back of my neck stands up and tears begin to flow.
Thanks for your response... History was my first academic love, and it has been for the last 35 years. I'm sure you can appreciate that I need to read or hear more than a "we have documentation" to believe you or anyone. Write a book including the documentation, and I will buy it.
I was the commander of a VFW in Orlando Florida and I was privelaged to preside over many burials and when I hear that morful final note I think of all the brothers that went before me into battle and how they gave thier lives for me.
Those beautiful notes keep me in check. It reminds me how many people died for me and everyone around me. It reminds me of what not only what I stand for, but what I live for. That is what this country needs to get back on track, elbow grease and Patriotism. God Bless the past, present and future troops.
This was great, I learned something new about an old tradition and tribute. I participated in 2 military funerals while I was on active duty and attended a couple for friends also.I live close to a cemetary and have heard taps off in the distance often, our flag is always in view. I am a VFW member as well as an American Legion member, I won't participate in military funerals until my son is finally done with war, he is halfway through his second tour in Iraq.
they also play this song if the president dies{ Lincon, Kenndy} and 4 police officers, and fire fighters and on 9-11 @ my school by someone in the band or from JROTC{Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps} 4 any of them {Army. Navy, Marines etc.} my friend played it @ the flag pole this year and i had the honor of placing the flag @ half mast i had tears in my eyes the entire time cuz my cousin is over in Iraq right now! GOD BLESS ALL MILITARY PERSONAL! WE ARE PRAYING 4 AND UR IN OUR THOUGHTS!
I've never heard this at a funeral. People around here usually play bagpipes. Nothing beats Amazing Grace on the bagpipes. If it's good enough for Spock, it's good enough for anyone!
lemonrind 1 month ago
Thank you so much for the explanation and introduction how and where taps originated. I really appreciate it! My husband is retired Army and although we haven't discussed death in detail, should I outlive him I wan't him to have a military funeral. As a matter of fact I will instruct our children should he outlive me. I've been an active duty Army wife for 20 years and the military was my family during that time. I still miss them!
Nevermore1953 2 months ago
the five people who disliked this ARE TERRORISTS!!!
uhlmann21 2 months ago
@uhlmann21 now there are six, cocksucker!
captain2ahab 1 month ago
Shit! I accidently thumbs uped the the really bad comment obove. Please punish me by thumbsing down my comment. I meant to vote his down but my mouse slipped.
tromuniapp 4 months ago
Makes me cry every time I hear it. RIP to all the brave soldiers who lost their lives for America.
ahearrell 4 months ago
I honor this to the 3 Bismarcks my empire had that were sunk in an act of war against my empire. My navy's capabilities are now weakened and now vulnerable. My navy will never recover from that blow. Thank you for your services to my empire.
Katipunanasone 5 months ago
@tapsbugler then maybe you can help me out, on my channel i did a tribute video for my grandfather who recently passed away he served in WW2 in the navy, i have taps playing in the background, and now i have a copyright infrindgement on the video, from Sony music... needles to say and to keep the language clean iam dont right PISSED about this, and i was unaware of the origins of this piece, but obviously it is american and was created in 1862, so not sure how sony can do what they are doing
1gamoguy 5 months ago
Where can i get a bugle like the bugler playing Taps, i want to learn how to play it
BeechBaron2012 6 months ago
you are a wicked dick
wjthomas82 6 months ago
"Taps" is uniquely American as 'The Last Post" is uniquely British adopted by many other countries, Neither is better than the other, as whole societies have grown up & associated with their own particular military call. It's that association & the embodiment of the meaning within their hearts that binds people to their call. Slatibaadfast is totally wrong in his interpretation & it's beyond me why he said what he did. All I can say is, Australia does not lack it's share of rednecks & fools.
kanakaken 6 months ago
@tapsbugle It's true that "Taps" was written by Butterfield in 1862 and I have heard it many times but I have been listening to it over & over lately, very carefully along with "The Last Post" and I'm sure that you as a bugler and musician can hear as I do, the similarities between the two. They ARE different but very similar. I feel that Butterfield was influenced by the sound in his head at the time of the British call "Last Post", when he wrote "Taps". This takes nothing away from either tune
kanakaken 6 months ago
@slatibaadfast The songs sound nothing a like my asshole, messed up teeth britsh friend.... How dare you talk about "taps" like that. My Best friend died in the military, in my unit...they played this at his funeral.
melmccon13 7 months ago
@3:47 squirrel in the background :3
Stoozor 7 months ago
Taps always make me cry. Like he said.. the notes will make even the most hardened soldiers cry..
MizzDecatur 8 months ago
Thanks for this piece. Very informative and well done. And to the 5 people who dislike this, get OUT of OUR country. The men who's funerals this is played at died for your freedom.
bighairman1 9 months ago
Day is done
Gone the sun
From the sea, from the hills, from the sky
All is well
God is nigh
RobinBClay 9 months ago
"Toe" in the Dutch means "shut" or end, and is pronounced "too", hence the word "Tattoo" in the military sense. Taps is similar to "The Last Post" (played at Remembrance Day parades) which is much longer. Both my parents' funerals ended with Taps. He was a Scout; she a Guide.
RobinBClay 9 months ago
Thank you for the lesson
ncniga 9 months ago
Amazing Video...Happy Memorial day Sir
kurosakixIchigo219 9 months ago
No matter the origins of the call, it is an honor for a veterans. One day taps will be sounded for the final time and the faded coat of blue will be exchanged for a robe of white. May God bless all of our veterans both living and dead.
aminger1982 9 months ago 4
"it brings down the curtain on someone's life . . ."
well said. great video.
MyNameIsMommy912 9 months ago
Dan Butterfield may have been only an average commander,, but he knew how to reach soldiers with his bugle calls.
LR0341 9 months ago
From generations of Army, I am well acquainted w/ bugle calls, especially Taps.
Your rendition is the bar for all buglers in my humble opinion. Your work on the exhibit years back was much appreciated, btw. This video you made is concise and authoritative. Well done. Bravo. At my funeral, should I be so lucky to have a bugler half as talented as you, I'll be lucky. Thank you for sharing this vid.
YesSirMam2 9 months ago 3
Even as a child Taps has made me cry. This is very informative, thank you!
TheYellowsun76 10 months ago
who watches this and feels compelled to hit - dislike????
TheBigBigWater 10 months ago
What an excellent lesson! I've never served, nor has anyone in my immediate family, but I just can't help but feel a sense of heartbreak but also of pride and patriotism whenever I hear it. I'm so grateful to the patriots of this country who have either made the ultimate sacrifice or who are currently putting their lives in harms way to keep this country safe. How blessed I am to live in the United States!
keenanistheman 10 months ago 2
wow ... that grave with those sounds.. a sad remember of history..
AsColdAsIceIl 11 months ago
Though I may have not served, I understand the pain a man experiences when a friend is lost to the wages of war. But it is in remembrance, that this song is played. That he did not die for nothing, but for us and his country. In all things, he did not die in vain, but for duty, honor, and for his friends and his family. Ignore those who hate, because they do not experience war, and therefore only speculate on their own ideas formed by liberalisticly influenced newspapers. Fight on men, fight on.
colonelchris92 11 months ago
Look at those graves. Thousands of young kids , half of them not even shaving yet.
We have to do better as a species.
ilikezappa 11 months ago
Very interesting document... Well made and well presented... I greatly appreciate the generosity of the explanations, that were done in a very professionnal manner... My thanks.
MtlToaster 11 months ago
awesome
12BabyBecca 11 months ago
same here about the tears... Thank you Sir. This is incredibly interesting and very informative. I have no idea how you can play Taps without crying or choking up. I am in the PGR and I hear it too often. It never gets easier.
tat2dpair 11 months ago
what does it take to learn play that???? being a novice on this.
olekike 11 months ago
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olekike 11 months ago
great video and story, great story!
olekike 11 months ago
Thank you for this video. I myself have played taps many times for private funerals while in high school. Whether you knew the family or not, it was very saddening. Especially the way taps makes a lot of people feel at funerals. I always had a trumpet though. I would like to learn it on the bugle. Again, thank you for the video.
BHBTowns 1 year ago
Thank you for this video. My brother-in-law was buried a week ago today, he was buried with full Military Honors. When Taps was played, we all cried. May he Rest In Peace, still hard to believe he's gone. Heaven watch over him.
Rustina61 1 year ago
@Rustina61 He is already in heaven i am sure. He is watching over you my friend. God Bless him for his service and God Bless the USA.
bringinhomesara 1 year ago
@bringinhomesara Thank you for your kindness, every day it gets a little easier. God Bless you and our great country !
Rustina61 11 months ago
I absolutely love this song, I miss going to sleep every night to this song. A much simpler time in my military career lol.
Ivelostyourmind 1 year ago
hmm.. I find it hard to believe it is entirely separate from 'signaal taptoe' and by extension, the last post. Probably the person adapting Scott tattoo was also aware of the earlier taptoe signals and influenced by them.
dhgelling 1 year ago
Day is done Gone the Sun
Rdrake1413 1 year ago
Very informative.
I'm a Vet and never knew this....
aaffc71 1 year ago 2
Once I hear Taps I lose it. Everything is going O.K. considering, I'm holding up as best I can, being strong in front of the young ones, being supportive for my family, and then Taps plays in the distance and I cry like a baby. No other song can change a man like Taps does.
nhlninetyfour 1 year ago 44
@nhlninetyfour You are a true American in my book. My PopPop was a veteran in the Korean war. He would have passed almost three years ago February 5th.
legoman1800 1 year ago
@nhlninetyfour I heard taps for the first time as I was handed my older brothers flag. taps to this day makes me fall. even as a growing man I fall apart at this.
MrShadowEli 1 year ago
@nhlninetyfour Tears. Every time.
yilishihfu 11 months ago
@nhlninetyfour agree 100% whatever reason it is I can make it through a funeral no problem but Taps plays and it is all over.
Jimmyrigs100 2 months ago
He couldn't be more right the day me and my family buried my grandmother they played taps and when they played it every one was crying. Now when I hear this song i do start to get a little teary eyed but it's not cuz im sad she is gone it is because im so proud to say my grandmother served in the United States Navy in WW2
hadhills 1 year ago 13
@hadhills women were not allowed in the Combat units during WWII
Director347 1 month ago
who is he playing for?
antizero100 1 year ago
Having lost so many friends now this bugle song is bittersweet. Each time I hear it my eyes begin to burn and tear up. Even when I know the song is about to be played I am still caught off guard by emotion. Rest in Peace brothers and know you are greatly missed by all of us.
UrbanMilitare 1 year ago
Alf821 is right taps in british no offense to any one whose relitive or friend may have had taps played at there patriotic send off but Yeah british
MrQuuad 1 year ago
Isn't this just a version of 'The last post'? It sounds very similar.
toppaz79 1 year ago
I played this at my grandfather's funeral and it was the saddest moment of my life.
JokinJoe 1 year ago
Originally Taps was played to signal the closing of the taps of ale in England
alf821 1 year ago
@alf821 No.
ksb78 11 months ago
@tapsbuglar thanks for that information, i definitely learned a few stuff.
csneon2000 1 year ago
@tapsbuglar thanks for that information, i definitely learned a few stuff.
csneon2000 1 year ago
Was the guy Jari in the movie "Gods and Generals", played the Bugler
VNThongNhat 1 year ago
I am a trumpet player and i have just bought a bugle. Is the buzz for them the same because it doesn't sound right.
TDHale8991 1 year ago
@TDHale8991 i believe you put your lips close together but not together so you buzz. that's why it doesn't have that buzzing noise.
bobburke1964 1 year ago
As a Brit I reckon it's 'up there' with Edward Elgars 'Nimrod'
Both canny, like
thebestofforum 1 year ago
you are correct, they played this at my grandfathers funeral and i cry everytime i hear it, god bless their souls
rtyhutydudrhrthr 1 year ago
Thank u , great post
Chronos127 1 year ago
I bought a sort of bugle-like horn yesterday, but I doubt its a good one, and I am now very impressed with the amount of sound a bugler can produce. Mine only seems to sigh or to groan. :P
FrisianDude 1 year ago
You are an honored man... Your video is very interesting. I am going to play this piece on my Blues harmonica.
maxdecimus88 1 year ago
When you hear TAPS sounded,please stand in rememberance of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. May G-D grant them eternal rest.
rivka614 1 year ago
for some reason every time i hear TAPS, it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand straight up..... its such a saddening song....
bloodvein3 1 year ago
I will forever remember when Taps was played at my Fathers Funeral it is such a touching feeling that can't help but bring tears to your eyes then and anytime you hear it after that. My Father served his country and I could not be prouder then any American as I hear this played at a soldiers funeral. May we all respect that these men fought so bravely for our country. God Bless Our USA Flag That Flies Proudly and is a sign of our Freedom in the USA as the Flag is given to a Loved Ones Family...
GaCountryGirl024 1 year ago
11:11:11
ghostband2012 1 year ago
I've taked to many musicians about Taps, many of them never realized that the 4 different notes used make up a major chord. Most guess that its minor, likely because of the association with military funerals. For me, that's illustrative of just how powerful the melody is. Certainly a magical piece. Thanx for posting the vid, well done sir!
Myuzishin 1 year ago
It's a shame that our Armed Forces are now replacing a live bugler with a recording of TAPS at some military funerals.
PampersPete 1 year ago
hay i gota give it to you .you know how to tell a story . greets from belgium
dutchglorygs 1 year ago
how sad im going to get those bastads when i sing
thelubu100 1 year ago
Thank you sir, for this incredibly informative video, and for helping us remember how sacred this song is and the lives that are given so selflessly for our freedom.
samudaseraphim 1 year ago
.This was beautiful. I have attended many military funerals, too many, in which the playing of TAPS was mediocre at best.
MrRUShure 1 year ago
great man just great
54flyman 1 year ago
Great video. Thank you.
papadrugio 1 year ago
So ... if I understood well, taps was made by modifiying a French Army bugle call ?
Or was it just decked and "replaced" by the modified version of a old tune ?
Briselance 1 year ago 6
@Briselance The latter.....
tapsbugler 1 year ago 8
@tapsbugler
Thanks for your help and your answer ;-)
Briselance 1 year ago
I used to play Trumpet but now I'm out of practice so I'd prefer an instrument that you play by instinct and not with valves so I can just think of a song and play it. Is the bugle like that? Cus I can play most any tune on a trumpet mouthpiece but obviously that sounds a bit stupid, and doesn't work once it's attached to the trumpet, then I can only control jumps between C and G and E with my mouth.
moogle301 1 year ago
how do you get the different notes without the note key buttons?
suziqleigh1 1 year ago
@suziqleigh1 When you play any brass instrument that uses a mouthpiece, you can play many different notes without pressing any keys. This is done by changing the position and muscles of your mouth, or your 'embouchure'. As you watch this video, look closely at the mans mouth around the mouthpiece. You can see it moving. Its why instruments like trumpets only need three buttons.
bgfreek 1 year ago
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suziqleigh12 1 year ago
@bgfreek thank you for your reply and the information!
suziqleigh12 1 year ago
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@suziqleigh1 When you play any brass instrument that uses a mouthpiece, you can play many different notes without pressing any keys. This is done by changing the position and muscles of your mouth, or your 'embouchure'. As you watch this video, look closely at the mans mouth around the mouthpiece. You can see it moving. Its why instruments like trumpets only need three buttons.
bgfreek 1 year ago
Very nice. Thanks for the information.
Bossmankane 1 year ago
Beautiful, thanks for sharing your skill. Here's a great organization that helps ensure that all vets are able to have taps played at their funerals: search: Bugles Across America
CrowleysGhost 1 year ago
yah trumpets!!!
tomboynarutoNE 1 year ago
Thank you for this fantastic video. I am looking for ways to teach my kids about Memorial Day today, and this video will be one that they watch. Thank you!
FanofB20 1 year ago
thanx for this salute!
crazedNdiffused 1 year ago
What I remember most about living on a military base. Hearing this from a distance always brought a smile to my face.
HABUSAILOR 1 year ago
Thank you for this video. It was played at a friend's funeral today and I woundered where the song came from.
R.I.P. Sgt. Donald J. Lamar II
LilCodaD 1 year ago
I personlly believe Jari and Tom Day should recieve the Medal of Freedom for their dedication to honor the Veterans
b42baritone 1 year ago
This is very informative! I hve posted a link to it onto my FB page, I think that this will help ALOT of people understand the meaning of "Taps". Thank you!
TrishaScotty 1 year ago
Thanks for this presentation. Well done!
flugel76 1 year ago
Is that you in the video? Excellent video!
kfinnguy 1 year ago 7
Thanks! Yes that's me!
tapsbugler 1 year ago 7
nicely done. do you do this for a living?
ClueLou 1 year ago
@tapsbugler u are soo good
mikebomb2 1 year ago
@tapsbugler Beautiful just beautiful i was with uk forces and this and the last post always chokes me up just one of two songs able to do that to me it also brings back memories.
steven1975dav 1 year ago
@tapsbugler As a brass musician, I have played taps. How do you hold your air that long. I have to breathe between each phrase, but I never hear you. why?
MrShadowEli 1 year ago
@MrShadowEli
Many years of practice. Plus I had the pleasure of working with a wonderful singer many years ago who taught the art of phrasing.
tapsbugler 1 year ago
@tapsbugler Outstanding Sir!
pinknpurplemonkey 10 months ago
taps so sad when played at a funeral, it always brings tears to my eyes.
MysticProphet57 2 years ago 2
The only more gut wrenching piece of music to be heard at a funeral is Amazing Grace played on the bagpipes. I have seen
this piece bring the most stoic and strong to tears. Myself included.
1stalkingwolf 2 years ago 3
how so?
ClueLou 1 year ago
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beautydaddy 2 years ago
@beautydaddy -Wrong movie... It was Gettysburg and it Was Thomas Chamberlain brother of Col (later Gen) Joshua Lawerence Chamberlain.
1stCavVet1969 2 years ago
Dam you are right.
beautydaddy 2 years ago
What a great story! I play trumpet. beautiful story that is
uglytool6 2 years ago
I don't think you can get more disrespctifull than that electronic bugle in current use in the U. S.
ryan10909 2 years ago 2
@ryan10909 that is due to the lack of actual buglers.
steveswb 2 years ago
USAF MSgt Villanueva is the best! First I've seen him in civilian attire. Hope he's enjoying retirement.
eazyrider17 2 years ago
i will never forget, about 5 years ago when my grandpaw died i couldnt go to his funiral. he was in the USMC and served in the veitnam war. i was at office max one day and my dad called me and put his phone on speaker and i heard taps playing. i got cold chills and a tear ran down my face.... THANK YOU TO ALL who served/serves in the US military
BMX2232 2 years ago
thank you for serving
Fesmith1022 2 years ago
Thank you.
Yamahagurl77 2 years ago
All gave some -- some gave all..Semper Fi
neil35160 2 years ago 3
Semper Fi OORAH
yesdedhed 2 years ago
To all those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom we all have. Semper Fi
Mullet1024 2 years ago 8
One of my fellow Military members died not too long ago, I couldn't make it to his funeral due to being on duty, but my friends told me they Bugled Taps and it was the saddest thing they have heard, becuase of what Taps means.
Nagidar23 2 years ago 2
Wow, Amen to shavemeface responce
Queenrocks1963 2 years ago
Wow man been in the military but this is the first time I seen this there is some history here very nice and well done.
Some day my family will hear that last call.
shavemeface 2 years ago
Great posting, he was right on.
dghdave 2 years ago
sends chills down my spine, this will be played at my funeral
ghslax619 2 years ago
yes it does its something about that never really ment to much untill i join the military and was involved in funerals.
shavemeface 2 years ago
So moving!... But I wonder why I have never heard anyone ever sing the words to it. I was taught the words to Taps as a young Girl....and I have never forgotten them. Every time I hear Taps the words go through my mind. It would be lovely to hear the words sung again.
hollywoodpink69 2 years ago
So moving....But I'm wondering why no one ever sings the word to it....I was taught the words to Taps as a little girl and have never forgotten them. It would be lovely to hear them sung again.
hollywoodpink69 2 years ago
Cool, I didn't know that
t56yt56yt 2 years ago
*sniff*
BillYiOn1 2 years ago 2
Beautiful and Enlightening.
Thank you for putting this together, I look foward to sharing this!
wallypres 2 years ago
I want to thank you for posting this video. And also the U.S. Military, USO, and Patriot Guard Riders for all that they do.
MagicPatrick1 2 years ago 3
Sounds so very much like the British Bugle call
"The last post" only slower. Taps was the name used when the British battalion duty officer of the day went around the billets at night and tapped his stick across the beer tap, this signified "stop tap" an expression still in use in England today.When a pub is closing the barman will call out loudly "Stop tap!" The last post was in use well before the war of American independance and with Napoleon. debate and no argument or offence please.
llewellyndavies1 2 years ago 4
thanks for posting, still confused though to the origin of taps
garydmckenzie 2 years ago
Gary the Royal Military School of Music will know, I will see what I can dig up. Remembrance day today, certainly a time to remember the Americans as well as our own countrymen.
llewellyndavies 2 years ago
Hello, I am a German soldier. I often listened to BFBS, the British Forces Broadcasting Service in Germany, and every day in the evening BFBS was colsing down with the evening hymn, the last post and the national anthem. It was very moving. Greetings from Berlin, Germany
PeerGynt1111 2 years ago 20
Peer good evening. Coincidence, I was also stationed in Berlin. I was out at Spandau. British, but also proud to have done a attachment tour of duty with the Gebirgs Div in mittenwald; I made life long friends there. I was quite astounded at the similarity of the British and German armies, I felt quite 'at home' with them, rank structures and tactical procedures very similar.
Evening Hymn is perhaps used like your wonderful piece of music 'Ich hatte ein Kameraden. That of couse is very moving.
llewellyndavies1 2 years ago
are you still serving or are you a veteran?
howardrhughes 2 years ago
Hello, I am still serving in the German Army
PeerGynt1111 2 years ago
I am still serving in the German Army.
PeerGynt1111 2 years ago
@PeerGynt1111 Aye, y'get some canny crack on BFBS.
REME. Detmold 1977-78
thebestofforum 1 year ago
@PeerGynt1111 I'm German too! Well, part German that is :)
legoman1800 1 year ago
The same in Germany. In Germany it is called "Zapfenstreich", and it means that the "Zapfen" (tap) is now closed and the soldiers must not drink moore beer, because the so called "Profoß" has done a "streich",a beat with his stick on the beer tap. The very military ceremony in Germany is the "Großer Zapfenstreich", a parade with honor guards, a band, circled by soldiers with torches. This ceremony is given for our President, our Chancellor when they leave there office for the last time.
PeerGynt1111 2 years ago
ive been learning to play this. i hope to play it it at a funeral someday this video really gave me the real meaning of "taps" thankyou
drollette300ex 2 years ago
I have been on several "duties" throughout my military career but funeral duty is the toughest. EVERY time the bugler hits the first note the hair on the back of my neck stands up and tears begin to flow.
dxtac 2 years ago 4
In the age of revisionist history... which version should I really believe... Perhaps both versions are tall tales.
usaforrest 2 years ago
One version has extensive documentation,the other doesn't.....
tapsbugler 2 years ago
Thanks for your response... History was my first academic love, and it has been for the last 35 years. I'm sure you can appreciate that I need to read or hear more than a "we have documentation" to believe you or anyone. Write a book including the documentation, and I will buy it.
usaforrest 2 years ago
The booklet is called "Twenty-Four Notes That Tap Deep Emotions" It is being revised for the 150th anniversary of the creation of the call.
Thanks
tapsbugler 2 years ago
@tapsbugler i live on an airforce base. whats the song that plays at 7:00 AM?
MindTrixx1 1 year ago
@MindTrixx1 Reveille is probably what you're tralking about
brandomando120 1 year ago
Nicely presented and very informative.
Mary02493 2 years ago
I like taps . In Germany we play " I had a comrade " in German " Ich hatte einen Kameraden" at funerals.
bremi26 2 years ago
I love my US Marine daddy......i will miss him forever...........
Christie
medic010 2 years ago 2
Taps should be played at every military funeral
WillowZeyphr 2 years ago
It is.
Scott19seventy5 2 years ago
taps is played at every militery funeral
silver9000000 2 years ago
It is
CoolCharmedGirl 2 years ago
I was the commander of a VFW in Orlando Florida and I was privelaged to preside over many burials and when I hear that morful final note I think of all the brothers that went before me into battle and how they gave thier lives for me.
I can not do enough for our veterans.
jibug0utmmer 2 years ago 4
Those beautiful notes keep me in check. It reminds me how many people died for me and everyone around me. It reminds me of what not only what I stand for, but what I live for. That is what this country needs to get back on track, elbow grease and Patriotism. God Bless the past, present and future troops.
seagoats73 2 years ago 4
AYA HIRANO
SuzumiyaHaruhi0 2 years ago
This was great, I learned something new about an old tradition and tribute. I participated in 2 military funerals while I was on active duty and attended a couple for friends also.I live close to a cemetary and have heard taps off in the distance often, our flag is always in view. I am a VFW member as well as an American Legion member, I won't participate in military funerals until my son is finally done with war, he is halfway through his second tour in Iraq.
bobdcal 2 years ago
everyone out there just remember this FREEDOM IS NOT FREE
NathanEubank101 2 years ago 16
@NathanEubank101
Yes. And it will never be free.
Briselance 1 year ago
@NathanEubank101 TEL ME SOMETHING NEW
thoostorm4 1 year ago
GOD Bless all who serve. Past , Present and in the future.
bigmezz1 2 years ago 3
sad
djme289 2 years ago
they also play this song if the president dies{ Lincon, Kenndy} and 4 police officers, and fire fighters and on 9-11 @ my school by someone in the band or from JROTC{Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps} 4 any of them {Army. Navy, Marines etc.} my friend played it @ the flag pole this year and i had the honor of placing the flag @ half mast i had tears in my eyes the entire time cuz my cousin is over in Iraq right now! GOD BLESS ALL MILITARY PERSONAL! WE ARE PRAYING 4 AND UR IN OUR THOUGHTS!
Delkosbaby92 2 years ago 6