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French Army ( "Armée de Terre" ) bugle call: " Le rappel aux clairons "

This call was published in the " Ordonnance sur l' exercice et les manoeuvres de l' infanterie du 4 mars 1831". It stood under the heading: "Sonneries de clairon".
In short, this order defined the training procedures and manoeuvres to be followed by the French infantry under the reign of king Louis-Philippe of France.

It's played here on an old Mahillon bugle made in Brussels with a modern flugelhorn mouthpiece inserted.

The acoustics are rather dry because it' s recorded in a normally sized room.

Instrument :
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type : double coiled infantry bugle
tuning : Bb
material : red copper
weight : 680 grams

maker : Mahillon
place : Brussels

mf date : unknown, but judging by the similar way of marking on other bugles who are dated, somewhere around 1905.
remark : It is marked with the name of the owner : " Omer de Prez ". Most likely this was WW1 veteran Omer de Prez who fought in Flanders in '14 - '18 and died in 1976 in Nukerke age 87.

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