You can play all the notes of the bugle in the same way a bugle works if you don’t press any keys of the trumpet down. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWhen you don’t press the keys of the trumpet, you keep the length of the pipe the same. So, you essentially have the bugle where the length of the pipe is fixed (no valve keys).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, to be super clear–a B flat bugle (B flat just means what the notes are tuned to) plays the following notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
C4, G4, C5, E5, G5, C6<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A trumpet, when you don’t press the valves down can play these notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
C4, G4, C5, E5, G5 and C6. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, in short, if you have a trumpet, you don’t need to buy a bugle since the trumpet can play the same notes<\/strong> in a similar tone. Although bugles and trumpets sound slightly different from each other the sound is close enough to be interchangeable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bugle is one of the most simple instruments that you’ll probably see. A standard bugle has no buttons, no gadgets–just a coil of brass pipe with maybe a tuning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"Instruments"},{"value":7,"label":"Trumpet"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/bugle-1024x575.jpg",640,359,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Peter Mitchell","author_link":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/author\/thesoundadventurer\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"Instruments","slug":"instruments","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":105,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":105,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Instruments","category_nicename":"instruments","category_parent":0},{"term_id":7,"name":"Trumpet","slug":"trumpet","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":7,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":2,"count":13,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":7,"category_count":13,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Trumpet","category_nicename":"trumpet","category_parent":2}],"tag_info":false,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundadventurer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}