Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: This bugle was highly popular and widely in use until around 1850 â `` for example , in works by Richard Willis , later bandmaster of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point .
Simplified: This bugle was highly popular and widely in use until c. 1850 â `` for example , in works by Richard Willis , later bandmaster of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point .