I have just purchased a bugle and would like to know if the cord wrapped around the bugle is used to sling the bugle or a decoration or something else?
Thanks,
Jim
Bugle Wool Cord
I have just purchased a bugle and would like to know if the cord wrapped around the bugle is used to sling the bugle or a decoration or something else?
Thanks,
Jim
Jim Busby
Walton Guards
Co D 1st Florida Inf
Co D 7th Vermont Inf
Co C 3rd US Infantry
http://www.waltonguards.org
Hey Jim.... its a sling IIRC
Bobby Hughes
Co A, 2nd Battalion Ga Sharpshooters/64th Illinois Vol Infantry "Yates' Sharpshooters"
Savannah Republican Blues
Co C, 3rd US Infantry
Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum & William Scarbrough House, Savannah, GA
"I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy." - James Longstreet at a Memorial Day Parade in 1902.
Sling
Decoration
Protection from dings
grippie doo for sweaty hands (or cold brass insulator for ones hands)
RJ Samp
Horniste! Blas das Signal zum Angriffe!
"But in the end, it's the history, stupid. If you can't document it, forget about it. And no amount of 'tomfoolery' can explain away conduct that in the end makes history (and living historians) look stupid and wrong. "
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