University trumpeters among volunteers playing ‘Taps’ for veterans’ funerals
By: Janet McConnaughey, The Associated Press  
Ten trumpet students at a Louisiana university are offering to play “Taps†at veterans’ funerals, rather than leave the haunting farewell bugle call to a mechanical device.
"A lot of people get a recording, and play it over a speaker. It means something because it's the song. But when you have an actual person with the horn ... and you hear the horn ring over the fields, it takes the breath out of your chest," Kody Jernigan, a music education major at the University of Louisiana in Monroe, said in a telephone interview.
The senior from Longview, Texas, is a member of Talons for Taps , named because the university’s mascot is the Warhawk — a nod to the World War II-era Curtiss P-40 Warhawk airplane. All are members of the ULM Trumpet Studio: seven trumpet majors and three other students taught by Assistant Professor Eric Siereveld.
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2019/03/17/university-trumpeters-offer-taps-for-veterans-funerals/
