Trumpet Major is an appointment in British Army cavalry regiments or the Royal Horse Artillery, held by a Sergeant (or Corporal of Horse in the Household Cavalry) or a more senior non-commissioned officer or Warrant Officer. His job is to supervise the training and deployment of trumpeters who blow daily duty and ceremonial calls. Trumpet Majors were first appointed to the establishment in 1811.
The trumpet was originally a signalling instrument, but it has become purely ceremonial since the invention of radio.
| This article on a military rank or appointment is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Famous quotes containing the words trumpet and/or major:
“Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
“No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)