9/20/2003: Digital bugle

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Problem: there are more veterans dying than there are available bugle players to play taps for them.

Awkward solution: someone brings along a boom box and plays it. Highly unsatisfying, inappropriate, undignified, etc.

Best solution: hire hundreds more bugle players. Too expensive.

Good compromise: record the best playing of taps you can find, store it digitally in a device that fits in the horn of any ordinary bugle and can play loud, and play with the press of a single button. Now anybody can play taps as long as they're willing to maintain their dignity while faking it.