Papakura
Slow military bugle.
- S-CSouth-City line
- South family
- Brass signature
Why Papakura sounds like this
A slow bugle call climbs to a held top note and walks back down to where it began. Papakura Military Camp was built in 1939, at the start of the Second World War, and is still an army base. The bugle call is for the camp, the kind played to begin and end a soldier's day.
Inside the chime
Papakura's chime runs about 4 seconds, in two parts. Every station's chime ends on its family's signature, so you can tell roughly where you are by ear.
- 1
Papakura's own motif 3.3 s
Slow military bugle. No other station plays it.
- 2
The South family's brass 0.8 s
A short brass note, then a longer one a fourth higher. With 21 stations, Grafton and Parnell down to Pukekohe and Manukau, it is the largest family.