Last Post

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | 254 words | Copyright

Last Post. British Army bugle call. The First Post at 9.30 p.m. calls all men back to barracks and the Last Post at 10 p.m. ends the day. By a natural and poetical association of ideas it has become the custom to sound the same call at military funerals.

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