Taps Music Sheet - General butterfield made some revisions to the music and instructed norton to sound this call in place of “lights out. Web years later, in 1898, norton wrote about the creation and première of “taps.”. He claimed that general butterfield showed him some notes on a staff written in pencil on the back of an envelope and asked him to play them.
He claimed that general butterfield showed him some notes on a staff written in pencil on the back of an envelope and asked him to play them. Web years later, in 1898, norton wrote about the creation and première of “taps.”. General butterfield made some revisions to the music and instructed norton to sound this call in place of “lights out.