CW Music Forum

[Danny]

What would it take to have a "CW Music" Topic set up here, or in the Military Civil War Reenacting area?

Dan Wykes

[Lightningslinger]

Dan,

Are you speaking of banjos and tin whistle campfire gatherings or drums, fifes and bugles at Reveille? I'm not always exactly certain which is more pleasing to the ear. :rolleyes:

Walt Mathers

[Danny]

Dan, Are you speaking of banjos and tin whistle campfire gatherings or drums, fifes and bugles at Reveille? I'm not always exactly certain which is more pleasing to the ear. :rolleyes:Walt Mathers

Walt -

To me the bugles / skin military drums / fifes for military parade and field maneuver stuff goes under the Military part of the forum, while this Civilian side gets harmonicas / small wound silk-and-gut-stringed guitars and fiddles / fretless gut-string banjos / bones / jawbones / tambourines / tin whistles / concertinas for popular stage minstrel and sheet music of the time as sung in camp, and of course soldier songs from before the American Revolution to CW years.

Neither Military or Civilian music forum should get any sort of dulcimer / mandolin / steel-string old timey banjo / Bluegrass style banjo / 1960s "folk" music renditions / "Ashokan Farewell" or other movie music / steel-string guitars / guitars bigger than parlor size / bodrhan hand drums -- because however interesting all those are none is of any significance to the civil war and most were never seen in a CW camp or on the CW home front.

Both Military and Civilian can have the Bb military brass band posts because that was popular and heard everywhere.

- Dan'l

[eric marten]

Dan: I wholeheartedly agree with you. An additional word on period fiddles:
Fiddles should be of the time period or good reproductions, with E, A, And D strings of pure gut, G string gut wound with silver, correct period pitch, and, in addition to minstrel tunes, should also be used for the literally thousands of fiddle tunes in the very rich solo traditions in the variety of keys popular in the 19th century, including A, D, G, C as well as the flat keys which have died out among more modern fiddlers. Also, they should have real tail guts, not nylon, synthetic, or metal substitutes.
Eric Marten