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Tom Holtz posted a video to Facebook of (I guess Portugese) group of bugle players, featuring a short solo that sounded very chromatic. This may or may not work for a link - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1394171574191679.

Anyway, the instrument is something like this: but with such a short branch I do not see how it can be chromatic.
Anybody know how this horn works? Is it mostly lipped to get a full scale? I know there is the factor of being in the high range of the horn that increases the available notes, but is the half-step enough alone?

I know nothing about the instrument, but I reckon you can see a lot of videos under banda de cornetas y tambores or similar. Spanish, religious processions typically.

Yes - this one turned up on FB: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6KckxBhi8Y#t=28 but it is in Portugese.

I remember from my duty with the Navy Recruit Depot San Diego Drum & Bugle Corps that we had to work around the missing notes in all of our arrangements - even with a two valve bugle. I was playing a Baritone size horn, the largest we had at the time, and getting low register root and harmony notes to work was quite a trick! (This was back in the winter of 1968/69 when bugles were still pretty simple things.)

David Richoux wrote:but it is in Portugese.

Spanish.

Donn wrote:

David Richoux wrote:but it is in Portugese.

Spanish.

Possible, but it sounds much softer/"slurrier" than most Spanish I have ever heard. Maybe a regional thing? Anyway...

There's no denying the chops on that guy, though. The faces of the rest of the section around him tell the story. I've played it too many times, and it never gets old.

I believe the cornet player is Dani de Baza from southern Spain.