Baritone

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Baritone bugles (the term is often erroneously applied to the much larger and dissimilar bass-baritone bugle) are nearly a vanished voice among drum and bugle corps. Baritones began to be seen in the 1930s, adding a deeper trombone-like voice to the bugle section, an octave below the soprano and tenor bugles. The tone is piercing and memorable, and almost a snarl at full power. By the mid-1950s, baritones began to be replaced by the much larger, bigger-bored bass-baritone bugles which, by the mid-1960s, had nearly replaced the true baritones nationwide although they remained in the Getzen catalogs into the 1970s.