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Fred Miodowski is getting a lot of work these days. With few buglers available, Miodowski, 68, travels throughout Connecticut sharing the skill he learned as a 10-year-old Boy Scout. Wearing spotless white gloves and playing a brightly polished horn, he plays the bugle for military funerals, providing the mournful sound of Taps from a solitary horn.
The task, he said, can be difficult sometimes. You are more professional if you just dont think about it, he remarked, commenting on the challenge of playing at funerals. If you do, it can take away from your playing and everyone has high expectations.
Miodowski plays for a variety of military functions. He contributed to the services in Norwalk recently commemorating National Peace Officers Day. But the memorial services, he said, are his mainstay. He is seeing a change, though. In addition to services for veterans from the Korean War and some from World War II, he has begun to play at services for younger soldiers. Ive started to get calls for funerals for vets from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, he said. I just got a call for a girl who was in the National Guard.
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