The ceremonial bugle is real
November mentioned that at military funerals they don't actually use bugles to play Taps, but stick a small speaker inside of a bugle. This is real, it's called a ceremonial bugle, and actually better than a lot of people get.
I've done honors at something like 150 military funerals. If there was a ceremonial bugle we'd take that and puff out our cheeks as we held it to our mouths so it looked like we were really playing it. If there wasn't we had little boom boxes and someone would ceremonially bend over and press "play" for the playing of Taps. On one funeral our boom box stopped working some time between when we left and when we tested it out and we had to put the CD in the car so while I was holding the folded flag the other airman had to ceremonially march to the car, ceremonially lean in through the open window, and ceremonially turn on the car speaker.
