GENERAL Butterfield, a brigade commander with the II Corps, under Hancock. "No one like General Butterfield for having a good time!" (unidentified Union private, marching in Ted Turner's "Gettysburg") Robin ----- Original Message ----- From: <wogamax@utility.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>; <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 12:45 PM Subject: Re: Taps Off Subject > ....When the Captain finally reached his own lines, he > discovered it was actually a Confederate soldier, but the soldier > was dead....his own son...He asked the bugler to play a series > of musical notes he had found on a piece of paper in the pocket of > his dead son's uniform...... > > Kevin, > > This is a romantic account of where the melody came from and > would certainly do justice to the feelings it conjures. The problem I > saw with it, however, was that bugles can only reproduce melodies > of specific intervals and not the entire scale. Needless to say, the > odds that a randomly composed piece of music can be played on > one are slim, unless written by a bugler. > > A net search provided a little more information. The current > accounts of its past still points to glorious roots, though somewhat > less dramatic. It turns out it is an adaptation of a bugle call from > many decades before the civil war done by a soldier named Daniel > Adams Butterfield. > > http://www.west-point.org/taps/Taps.html > > Respectfully Submitted, > Chris Woodward, former Bugler > >
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