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Huntsmen may mount a shift valve on their shotguns for dual sonorities.
Schleppy would be our resident expert on the 6-notes piccolo variants? (Maybe on ants in general).
Bugle for a Shooting Star?
- Kevin Hendrick
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Re: Bugle for a Shooting Star?
Reminds me of the "piccolo trumpet" auctioned on eBay a few years ago -- it was a piccolo, but the headjoint had been removed and replaced with a trumpet mouthpiece ...

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Re: Bugle for a Shooting Star?
Hmmm... a Bb cornet has an open bugle of about 4 1/2'. That would make an Eb trumpet about 40" long. Looks about right for the rifle to play in Eb.
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Re: Bugle for a Shooting Star?
That looks like an instrument of natural selection to me.
Mark E. Chachich, Ph.D.
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Principal Tuba, Bel Air Community Band
Life Member, Musicians' Association of Metropolitan Baltimore, A.F.M., Local 40-543
Life Member, ITEA
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Re: Bugle for a Shooting Star?
One of the situations where backfiring would be preferable?Mark E. Chachich wrote:That looks like an instrument of natural selection to me.