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by Tony Barton
Fri Jul 31, 2015 2:10 pm
Forum: Archived Public Forum - 2002 to 2023
Topic: How were these guys actually equipped?
Replies: 5
Views: 7287

Re: How were these guys actually equipped?

That is exactly the film version which is such rubbish.
by Tony Barton
Thu Jul 23, 2015 10:03 am
Forum: Archived Public Forum - 2002 to 2023
Topic: How were these guys actually equipped?
Replies: 5
Views: 7287

Re: How were these guys actually equipped?

The first thing to say about this painting is that despite its popularity , it's miles from what actually happened. The Greys ( brigaded with the Royal Dragoons and the Inniskillings , both of whom barely get a mention because of this bloody painting ) advanced across a road, though a hedge, and ...
by Tony Barton
Fri Oct 31, 2014 3:48 am
Forum: Archived Public Forum - 2002 to 2023
Topic: What's up with that cap. . . a thread dedicated to unusual.
Replies: 61
Views: 47752

Re: What's up with that cap. . . a thread dedicated to unusu

Getting back to the cavalry pillbox, it was really just a smartened-up version of the softer and bigger forage cap of the Napoleonic Wars.
The circular style seems to have originally come from Eastern Europe, and was sometimes termed a " Pokalem " by the French , and the first ones had a let-down ...
by Tony Barton
Sun Mar 10, 2013 3:51 pm
Forum: Archived Public Forum - 2002 to 2023
Topic: Varieties of Bugles
Replies: 43
Views: 107715

Re: Varieties of Bugles

FtValleyPS , That's a single loop trumpet , approximating to the old 18th century and earlier types, or the modern State trumpets.
It apparent from all these now intermingling threads that US usage is now to call a cavalry trumpet a Bugle , and for US infantry to use the same trumpet as well , but ...
by Tony Barton
Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:15 pm
Forum: Archived Public Forum - 2002 to 2023
Topic: Varieties of Bugles
Replies: 43
Views: 107715

Re: Trumpets vs Bugles

Some examples on YouTube :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kutm606Dqb0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kutm606Dqb0

sound quality not so good in the second one.
Properly played , trumpets should take the paint off the wall.....
by Tony Barton
Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:05 pm
Forum: Archived Public Forum - 2002 to 2023
Topic: Varieties of Bugles
Replies: 43
Views: 107715

Re: Trumpets vs Bugles

The difference is one of length and bore , which gives a different tone and range when sounded.

Valves are an addition used for orchestral instruments after about 1850, but are not relevant to the traditional trumpets and bugles. The trumpeter sounds the different notes by changing the tension of ...
by Tony Barton
Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:49 am
Forum: Archived Public Forum - 2002 to 2023
Topic: "1805" British light dragoon saddle.
Replies: 73
Views: 102891

Re: "1805" British light dragoon saddle.

I hope these might be useful. They are not very good, since they were taken through glass without a tripod with a pre-digital camera.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g53/TonyBarton/more%20dollies/1805-saddle-three.jpg

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g53/TonyBarton/more%20dollies/1805-saddle ...
by Tony Barton
Mon May 14, 2012 12:48 pm
Forum: Archived Public Forum - 2002 to 2023
Topic: WW1 1902 British UP saddle miniature
Replies: 12
Views: 19963

Re: WW1 1902 British UP saddle miniature

And here's one of the first of Cesar's saddles arrived at its destination.
A Trumpeter of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars , Palestine 1918. I've made all the 1/6th scale kit , but it's not all attached here for clarity :~

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g53/TonyBarton/more%20dollies ...
by Tony Barton
Tue Feb 21, 2012 3:38 pm
Forum: Archived Public Forum - 2002 to 2023
Topic: Varieties of Bugles
Replies: 43
Views: 107715

Re: Varieties of Bugles

If I might chip in with some British observations on the subject : the reason that there were more than one size or type of instrument was largely musical.
The longer the tube , the more notes can easily be sounded.

If you look at the original 17c military trumpets , they were long (2 '6" in a ...