Taps was played at the funeral of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson 10 months after it was composed. Army infantry regulations by 1891 required taps to be played at military funeral ceremonies.

Every morning before work, and before sunrise, David Dodson sits in his car, garage door closed, and practices playing his trumpet for 30 minutes.

The taps sounded so real that Daniel McKenna of Philadelphia, who attended the funeral, said he did not realize it was a recorded version played on an electronic bugle because the real bugler ...

The languid, melancholy sound of a bugle call is a fixture at military funerals. But it wasn't always that way. The song taps used to signal 'lights out' for soldiers to go to sleep. Taps ...

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At 3 p.m. on Memorial Day, three Crosby trumpet players walked outside and played a somber refrain in memory of those who paid the ultimate price for this country. The 24-note tune is the mournful ...

MOLINE, Ill. — A Moline man is alive today after battling Covid-19 from a ventilator for weeks. His family says his trumpet saved his life. Music has always filled the soul and the lungs of Dave ...

There are just 24 melancholy notes in taps. Over the decades, Hellertown’s LeRohn Deysher has poured his heart into them again and again. Counting military funerals, Memorial Day services and… ...

The last note of taps wafted across the cemetery and echoed from the surrounding hills and buildings, including Johnson City Medical Center and VA hospital. Military rites had already been carried ...

An Illinois man beat the coronavirus, and his family is crediting his trumpet. Not only did Dave Navarro recover, but the Moline resident also was able to play “Taps” at his father’s funeral ...