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Old February 24th 14, 03:10 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Jack Campin
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Tabs (RB) didn't mind me playing my trumpet - except for one "bugle call" -
The Last Post. He'd loudly meow in a melancholy way whenever I played that
tune. No other combination of notes produced the same reaction. The opening
note on its own? No reaction. The second note on its own? Ditto. Put the two
together, with the expected duration and dynamics, and he'd cry.

I don't know that call - what is it used for?


It was originally used for the end of the day, but it became standard
for military funerals. Same function as "Taps" in the US.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4NtSqZcT_4

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Old February 24th 14, 03:24 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
Jack Campin
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According to Wikipedia, it is used in British Army camps to signal
the end of the day, but it is also used at military funerals and
in Remembrance Day ceremonies. In the USA, the "Taps" call is used
in a similar manner.

Indeed - they are the same tune.


I don't hear much similarity.

Last Post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McCDWYgVyps

Taps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhtr5J00ntA

"Taps" doesn't have the fast bit that in British folklore goes to the
words "come to the cookhouse door, boys". As that second video says,
"Taps" is purely American and dates from the Civil War.

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Old February 24th 14, 03:50 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
jmcquown[_2_]
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On 2/23/2014 9:24 PM, Jack Campin wrote:
[The Last Post]
According to Wikipedia, it is used in British Army camps to signal
the end of the day, but it is also used at military funerals and
in Remembrance Day ceremonies. In the USA, the "Taps" call is used
in a similar manner.

Indeed - they are the same tune.


I don't hear much similarity.

Last Post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McCDWYgVyps

Taps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhtr5J00ntA

"Taps" doesn't have the fast bit that in British folklore goes to the
words "come to the cookhouse door, boys". As that second video says,
"Taps" is purely American and dates from the Civil War.

I don't hear much similarity, either. I don't know a thing about Last
Post (sorry!). I do know Taps.

My father's cremains are interred in a National Cemetery. He was buried
with full military honours and a 21 gun salute (which they didn't dare
do in the middle of a battlefield). A bugler played Taps while the
Marines folded the American Flag and presented it to my mother.

But Taps isn't just about funerals. As your video link about Taps
indicates, a bugler sounds Taps when the flag is lowered at nightfall.
So, similar in that respect, yes. But no, not the same tune.

There are words that go with Taps. I learned them when I was a Brownie
Scout. "Day is done, gone the sun, from the lake, from the hills, from
the sky; all is well, safely rest, God is nigh."

Here's another historical video about Taps. It seems Taps was taken
from a bugle call (signalling end of the day, quit drinking, go to bed!)
known as the "Scots Tatoo". It predates the Civil War.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImeNKft0WaI

Jill
 




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