The bugle is a simple signaling brass instrument with a wide conical bore. The Plastic pTrumpet. [3][5] There existed another tradition of trumpets made of straight metal tubes of brass or silver that went back in Europe as far as the Greeks (salpinx) and Romans (Roman tuba), and further back to the Etruscans, Assyrians and Egyptians (King Tut's Trumpet). It first spread to England where as the "bugle horn" it was gradually accepted by the light dragoons (1764), the Grenadier Guards (1772), light artillery (1788) and light infantry.[1][11]. . Please explore the website and I hope you come away with a little more knowledge about this great American treasure we have in those 24 notes. (Picture used with permission from // -->