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PRINCETON, Ind. - Bob Weisheit holds a gizmo that is fitted into a bugle and requires only two button-touches to produce a stirring rendition of taps.
"Some people think I'm really playing this thing when I take it out for ceremonies," says the 82-year-old member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1147.See the full content of this document
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Solemn Sound of Taps
"I've never had any musical training in my life, but I don't let on unless somebody asks. It's like having a little joke with myself."
Weisheit looks at the instrument that expert bugler Bill Hitch blew for years, now displayed in a special case above the closet where the color guard rifles are kept."It's getting harder to...See the full content of this document
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