"YE SILVER TRUMPETS, SOUND!"

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2783, 30 May 1916, Page 6

"YE SILVER TRUMPETS, SOUND!"

NOVELTY FOE WELLINGTON.

,nen know it, but how many know that trumpets are used for 60unding the calls ill the cavalry and horseartillery branches of the service, and not buglers. As a matter of fact it is stated that the calls for the various duties of those concerned with horses are so many anil varied that a great number of calls •had to be written, and it'was found long ago that it would be less confusing in cases where there were mixed troops if thei.calls were given to another form of instrument. This is the keyless trumpet— an instrunient twice as long as the Army bugle, longer than a cornet, with only one loop, but slim and graceful in appearance. Its tone is more brilliant than tho bugle, and its range of notes greater. There are .many of the cavalry calls extremely fine to hear—quite musical compositions in their way—which could not be blown on an ordinary bugle. Yesterday those people who were in 1 town about midday were afforded, the opportunity of hearing the first trumpet band ever heard in Wellington. It consisted of twenty trumpeters from the Jfounted and Artillery Camp at Feathereton, which paraded through town to the barracks at Buckle Street in company with the Peatherston Camp Brass Band (under Bandmaster Wicks). ' The Trumpet Band electrified tho crowds with its festal tone and variety of march calls, and is a credit to Sergt.-Alajor Trumpeter Chegwin; who trains the trumpeters at Featherston.'. Another. opportunity ■ will be given of. .hearing the Featherston Trumpeters' and Camp Band this moruing, when they will play , the Seventeenth Reinforcement from the barracks to tho train.. •