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Discuss CW era military musicians impressions.
It is with great pleasure that we open up this new area for discussion of the musicians impression. I hope that this will facilitate greater sharing...
Thanks, Tom and 5string, for your services. Great new opportunity on this subject. I'll assume based on the initial requests that this thread isn't...
Gentlemen, I am in my second year of reenacting as a camp musician playing fiddle, minstral banjo & parlor guitar. I own a few fiddles including a...
I realize this question may blow up in my face, but I figured I would post it anyway. I was wondering how authentic an Infantry shell jacket with...
Excerpt from the writings of Fred Mather, a contemporary of Joe and Sam Sweeney (JEB Stewart's banjo player). A Minstrel banjoist himself, he...
A few of us started a camp band this year as we have wanted to do this for a few seasons. We have pretty good musicians on guitars, banjos, bones,...
Would ask someone familiar with period Spanish to translate into English these verses of a song as sung by a CW Confederate vet (Crisostome Longoria)...
Howdy I play the Jaw Harp and was wondering was it around in those times? i have friends who play guitar and fiddle and sometimes play with them so...
Howdy I have some friends who play bluegrass and are coming with me to the civil war reenactment and wanted to jam around the campfires so I was...
From a list in "Brown's Burnt Cork Biography" (c) 2005, are professional stage Minstrels who became soldiers in the CW, in alpha order: - Tommy...
For those interested, a short video of music, blacksmithing, food preparation at Old Bethpage Village Restoration on www.newsday.com or...
Shure would be nice to see a few of these around camps, rather than all the Dreadnoughts!!! :) http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i-WAS-R314KK
A friend in my company sent me this link today which I think is very good. A few of us in the 2nd Delaware are striving this year to be better...
While mentioned only as one of many accomplisments in this obituary, Dr. Raney was an active researcher in the area of civil war band music, and...
Does anyone know of a web site which has recordings of the period bugle calls to listen to?
The author of Christ in the Camp states, “. . .it was sung in our Confederate armies more generally, perhaps, than any other except some of the old...
Accordion jokes from Wikipedia... "While the accordion is a versatile instrument and is widely played throughout the world, it is not universally...
Dear Sirs; In the movie Gettysburg; in scene #19 I believe it to be; where the scene is where General George Pickett rides into General...
Per prior discussions, a few of us have cleared out the inventory of the $200. - $250. RP-1 period-style guitars from an importer, Republic Guitars. ...
Would be interested in when, where, and how many bugle calls, drum beats, fife tunes YOUR unit (not the manuals nor do I want them cited!, nor...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwryrleOGPM Saturday, 10 January, 2009, Williamsburg, Virginia Turkey in the Straw Dandy Jim Kingdom Coming ...
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