HIGH-TECH BUGLE SOUNDS ALMOST REAL.(MAIN)

Byline: CHRISTOPHER LEE Washington Post

WASHINGTON -- Today's high-tech military has smart bombs. Tomorrow's may have smart bugles.

The Pentagon, lacking enough buglers to play at veterans' funerals, has announced a plan to deploy technologically enhanced bugles that will enable honor guard members to play taps no matter how musically challenged they may be.

The guard member merely raises the instrument to his lips and presses a button. A small audio device placed within the bugle's bell then booms out the music that has been a standard at military funerals since 1891.

``In addition to the very high quality of sound, it provides a …