Yup, first valve should be a whole step and the rotor should be half. Play the piston with your right thumb and the rotor with your left index finger (if it's configured like almost every piston-rotor bugle I've seen so far).
Once you get it figured out, it's not that bad. They used to play those things as fast as any other brasswinds.
How the heck do I work the fingering on a valved bugle?
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ai698
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That's true for the G/F piston-rotor bugles; however, it sound like he has an old G/D bugle. I own three G/F bugles and played a G/D bugle about 25 years ago. Totally different horn but used in drum corps in the '60s.I think the valve is the whole step and the rotor is the half step. It's not ditonic in the low register and diatonic in the high( oppostie from what you said)
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Probably correct. These are pretty interesting, if nothing else than for historical purposes. I watched three longtime drum corps guys (at least one was a former head DCI judge) at DCA I&E play Bugler's Holiday on three tenor-voiced bugles of that era.ai698 wrote:That's true for the G/F piston-rotor bugles; however, it sound like he has an old G/D bugle. I own three G/F bugles and played a G/D bugle about 25 years ago. Totally different horn but used in drum corps in the '60s.