A bugle is a wind instrument that can only play its key note and notes within its harmonic series, for example, C3 G3 C4 E4 G4. To play different notes, one must change how the lips are placed on the mouthpiece of the instrument, which causes air to vibrate at different speeds, but the options are physically limited to integer multipliers of the base frequency.

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